1st Edition
The Zionist Bible Biblical Precedent, Colonialism and the Erasure of Memory
By Nur Masalha
Copyright 2013
304 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Nur Masalha is Professor of Religion and Politics and Director of the Centre for Religion and History and Holy Land Research Project at St. Mary's University College, London, and Professorial Research Associate, Department of History, SOAS, University of London.
