Jesus in an age of terror : scholarly projects for a new American century / James G. Crossley.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Crossley, James G.

Series:

• Bible world (London, England)
• BibleWorld

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Christianity--Origin.
• Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Bible. New Testament.

Physical Description:

xvi, 265 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub. Ltd., 2008.

Summary:

• This book applies the work of Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Edward Said and several others on international politics and the supportive role of the media, intellectuals and academics to contemporary Christian origins and New Tesfament scholarship.
• Part One looks at the ways in which New Testament and Christian orgins scholarship has historically been influenced by its political and social settings over the past hundred years. Part Two looks at the Orientalist rhetoric of clashing civilizations and how this relates to the "war on terror" and the creation of Islam, Arabs, Middle East, and so on, as "the Great Enemy" in the media and intellectual thought since the 1970s and, to use Derek Gregory's phrase, "hideously emboldened" in the "war on terror." Part Three looks at the issues of Palestine and Israel in the media alongside Christian, secular and intellectual thought since the "Six Day War" of 1967, focusing in particular onthe d r amatic shift towards widespread support for Israel. This also includes an analysis of the r ecent and controversial case of Nadia Abu el-Haj's tenure at Barnard.

Contents:

• Introduction : reading the history of New Testament and Christian origins scholarship
• The politics of the bibliobloggers
• The context : a clash of civilizations?
• Anglo-American power and liberal scholarship : scholarly reconstructions of the social world of Christian origins
• The context : Jesus and Christian origins since 1967
• Jewish, but not that Jewish.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [238]-255) and indexes.

ISBN:

• 9781845534295
• 1845534298
• 9781845534301
• 1845534301

OCLC:

221662917

Publisher Number:

99938785799