Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament
Subtitle: history, hermeneutics, and ideology
By: Will Stalder
Series: Emerging scholars; Emerging scholars
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781451482140; 9781451499759
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Religion; Bible; Christ; Bibel; Criticism, interpretation; Palestinian Arabs; Christians; History
Description: The foundation of the modern State of Israel in 1948 is commemorated by many Palestinians as a day of catastrophe. Many Palestinian Christians claim that the nakba was also spiritually catastrophic: the characters, names, events, and places of the Old Testament took on new significance with the newly formed political state, which caused vast portions of the text to become unusable in their eyes and be abandoned. Stalder asks how Palestinian Christians have read the Old Testament in the period before and under the British Mandate and now, in light of the foundation of the modern State of Israel, then contemplates how they might read these sacred texts in the future, interacting with proposals by Michael Prior, Charles Miller, and Gershon Nerel. His particular goal is to outline a possible hermeneutic that does not disregard the concerns of the respective religious communities without writing off the Old Testament prematurely.
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Aberdeen, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-393) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: hermeneutics. The elements of Palestinian Christian hermeneutics of the Old Testament; title: Part II. Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: history. Palestinian Christianity and the dawn of Zionism; title: Palestinian Christianity and the "promise" of a Jewish homeland; title: Palestinian Christianity and the "catastrophe" of the modern state of Israel; title: Part III. Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: ideology. Perspectives on Palestinian Christian hermeneutics of the Old Testament; title: A prescription for a Palestinian Christian hermeneutic of the Old Testament.