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Title:

THE ZIONIST BIBLE
BIBLICAL PRECEDENT, COLONIALISM AND THE ERASURE OF MEMORY

By:

Nur Masalha

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Hardback

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1844656578

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9781844656578

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 May, 2013

Series:

BibleWorld

Pages:

288

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

Throughout the history of European imperialism the grand narratives of the Bible have been used to justify settler-colonialism. "The Zionist Bible" explores the ways in which modern political Zionism and Israeli militarism have used the Bible - notably the Book of Joshua and its description of the entry of the Israelites into the Promised Land - as an agent of oppression and to support settler-colonialism in Palestine. The rise of messianic Zionism in the late 1960s saw the beginnings of a Jewish theology of zealotocracy, based on the militant land traditions of the Bible and justifying the destruction of the previous inhabitants. "The Zionist Bible" examines how the birth and growth of the State of Israel has been shaped by this Zionist reading of the Bible, how it has refashioned Israeli-Jewish collective memory, erased and renamed Palestinian topography, and how critical responses to this reading have challenged both Jewish and Palestinian nationalism.

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Acumen Publishing Ltd

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