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The Zionist Bible : biblical precedent, colonialism and the erasure of memory / Nur Masalha.
Van Pelt Library BS1171.3 .M377 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Masalha, Nur, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Bible world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zionism and Judaism.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 295 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Acumen, 2013.
- Contents:
- Framing the conflict: instrumentalizing the Hebrew Bible and settler-colonialism in Palestine
- Promised land and conquest narratives: Zionism and the 1948 Palestine Nakba
- Archaeology as civic religion: secular nationalist ideology, excavating the Bible and the de-Arabization of Palestine
- Colonialist imagination as a site of mimicry and erasure: the Israeli renaming project
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1844656578
- 9781844656578
- OCLC:
- 854594394
- Publisher Number:
- 99954692699
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