Beschreibung:
The support of a Jewish nation state in the Land of Israel is central to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This book considers the role the Bible has had to play in justifying oppression and colonialism in Palestine.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Framing the Conflict: Instrumentalising the Hebrew Bible and Settler-Colonialism in Palestine 2. Promised Land, Conquest Narratives: Zionism and the Palestine Nakba 3. Archaeology as Civil Religion: Secular Nationalist Ideology, Excavating the Bible and the De-Arabisation of Palestine 4. Colonialist Imagination as a Site of Mimicry and Erasure: The Israeli Renaming Project 5. God's Mapmakers: Jewish Fundamentalism and the Land Traditions of the Hebrew Bible (1967 to Gaza 2013) Conclusion: The New Scholarly Revolution and Reclaiming the Heritage of the Disinherited and Disenfranchised Palestinians Bibliography