The Zionist Bible
Subtitle: biblical precedent, colonialism and the erasure of memory
By: Nur Masalha
Series: Bible world; Bible world (London, England)
Publisher: Acumen
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781844656578
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Zionismus; Messianismus; Zionism and Judaism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Framing the conflict: instrumentalizing the Hebrew Bible and settler-colonialism in Palestine; title: Promised land and conquest narratives: Zionism and the 1948 Palestine Nakba; title: Archaeology as civic religion: secular nationalist ideology, excavating the Bible and the de-Arabization of Palestine; title: Colonialist imagination as a site of mimicry and erasure: the Israeli renaming project; title: God's mapmakers: Jewish fundamentalism and the land traditions of the Hebrew Bible (1967 to Gaza 2013); title: Conclusion: the new scholarly revolution, and reclaiming the heritage of the disinherited and disenfranchised Palestinians.