A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine offers a comprehensive, evidence-based history of Palestine with a critical use of recent historical, archaeological and anthropological methods.

List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; List of Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION Creating Coherence and Continuity: Suggestions and Illustrations of Methods and Themes THOMAS L. THOMPSON; Part 1 HISTORIOGRAPHY; 1.1. Emic and etic historiography and tradition within various disciplines; 1. Palestinian Local Historical Narrative HAMDAN TAHA; 2. Palestinian Identity: The Question of Historiography ISSAM NASSAR; 3. History of Palestine versus History of Israel? The Minimalist - Maximalist Debate INGRID HJELM; 4. De-Theologising Medieval Palestine: Corpus, Tradition and Double-Critique JOSHUA SABIH; 5. History, Curriculum and Textbooks: Reframing Palestine in the post-Oslo period NADIA NASER-NAJJAB AND ILAN PAPPE; 1.2. The roles of memory and oral history in history writing; 6. Oral History's Credibility, Role and Functionality MAHMOUD ISSA; 7. The Cultural and Linguistic Background of the Naming of Objects and Agricultural Installations in Palestine ISSAM HALAYQA; 8. The Production of Alternative Knowledge: Political Participation of Palestinian Women since the 1930s: A Case Study FAIHA ABDULHADI; Part 2 ETHNICITY, GEOGRAPHY AND POLITICS; 9. The Cultural Heritage between Ethnicity and Ethical Matters GHATTAS J. SAYEJ; 10. Narratives, Nucleotides, Nationhood: The Conundrum of Demographic Continuity and Discontinuity and the Quest for Historic Legitimacy MICHAEL NATHANSON; 11. Patronage and the Political Anthropology of Ancient Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages EMANUEL PFOH AND THOMAS L. THOMPSON; 12. "To Be an Israelite and a Judean as I Want You to Be". Material Culture and Ethnicity during the Iron Age HANI NUR EL-DIN; Part 3 LANDSCAPE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND MEMORY IN THE INTERFACE BETWEEN HISTORY AND TRADITION; 13. Theoretical Perspectives on Landscape and Memory, and the Case of Lubya as Lieu De Memoire BO DAHL HERMANSEN; 14. Community Archaeology in Palestine: Protection, Preservation and Promotion of Archaeological Heritage Sites in Palestine IMAN SACA; 15. The Al-Nuweima Mosque: An Archaeological Perspective on Modern History ANDREW PETERSEN; 16. Archaeology as Anthropology (Bioarcheology) ISSA SARIE; Part 4 IDEOLOGIES OF THE LAND; 17. Mapping Palestine. Biblical and Rabbinic Perspectives PHILIP DAVIES; 18. Land, People, and Empire. The Bible through Palestinian Christian Eyes MITRI RAHEB; 19. Judaism's Response to the Invention of the Homeland SHLOMO SAND; 20. The History of Israel... But what Is this Israel?: Drawing Conclusions from Recent Research into the History of Ancient Palestine NIELS PETER LEMCHE; Index of Authors