The emergence of the Holy Land thematic stemmed from hundreds of years of history between European and American powers and their eagerness to pave their way and dominate the infamous Holy Land: Palestine. Authors like Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and others, wrote various works in order to create their personalized depictions of Palestine ranging from the use of hyperbolic imagery to satiric commentary. Although several articles talk about how the Holy Land mania affected Americans in the nineteenth century until to the present, a more modern approach towards the influence of the historic…