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The invention of ancient Israel : the silencing of Palestinian history / Keith W. Whitelam.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks DS115.5 .W475 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitelam, Keith W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament--History of Biblical events--Historiography.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Jews--History--To 70 A.D--Historiography.
- Jews.
- History.
- Historiography.
- History of Biblical events.
- Palestine--History--To 70 A.D--Historiography.
- Palestine.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 281 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1995.
- Summary:
- A controversial and provocative work, "The Invention of Ancient Israel" chronicles how the true history of ancient Palestine has been obscured. Keith W. Whitelam reveals how ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state; one that resembles the state of Israel created in 1948. This book explores the prospects for developing the study of Palestinian history as a subject in its own right, divorced from the history of the Bible, and argues that Biblical scholars, through their traditional view of this area, have contributed to dispossession both of a Palestinian land and a Palestinian past.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 041510758X
- 0415107598
- OCLC:
- 32431464
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