The Bible and Zionism
Subtitle: invented traditions, archaeology and post-colonialism in Palestine-Israel
By: Nur Masalha.
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781842777619; 9781842777602
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Zionism and Judaism; Palestine in the Bible; Arab nationalism -- Palestine; Palestine -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Bible is our mandate : Zionism, the Hebrew Bible and the Palestinian catastrophe (1881-1967); title: Biblical prophecy and Christian imperialism : Christian Zionism, Armageddon theology and the battle for Jerusalem; title: From secularism to messianism : the theology and geopolitics of neo-Zionism (1967-2006); title: Jewish fundamentalism, the Bible and the "sacred geography" of Jerusalem : implications for inter-faith relations; title: Reinventing Maimonides : from universalist philosopher to neo-Zionist messianic (1967-2006); title: Palestinian religious nationalism, decolonisation and the biblical paradigm : Hamas, Zionism and resisting the occupation; title: Is the Hebrew Bible historical? : the invention of a tradition and the challenge of archaeology and "minimalism" for biblical scholarship and nationalist historiography; title: The Bible, post-colonialism and the moral critique : Michael Prior, Palestinian liberation theology and the biblical academy; title: Cultural resistance and the secular humanist challenge : Edward W. Said, Zionism and rethinking the question of Palestine.