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Online-Ressource (479 p)
ISBN:
9780415107587
Content:
The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the true history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam shows how ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state, influenced by the realisation of the state of Israel in 1948. He explores the theological and political assumptions which have shaped research into ancient Israel by Biblical scholars, and contributed to the vast network of scholarship which Said identified as 'Orientalist discourse'.This study concentrates on two crucial periods from the end of the late Bronz
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Silencing of Palestinian History; 1. Partial Texts and Fractured Histories; Partial Texts; Imagining Ancient Israel and the Politics of the Past; Fractured Histories; 2. Denying Space and Time to Palestinian History; Introduction; The Denial of Palestinian Space; Denying Time to Palestinian History; 3. Inventing Ancient Israel; The Search for Ancient Israel; Claiming Palestine 1: Immigration into Palestine; Claiming Palestine 2: The Conquest of Palestine
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Claiming Palestine 3: The Struggle within PalestineConclusion; 4. The Creation of an Israelite State; Creating a State: Claiming the Past; Imagining an Ancient Israelite State; Questioning the Israelite State; Challenging the Davidic Empire; Conclusion: Freeing Palestinian History; 5. The Continuing Search; Introduction; The Archaeology of Early Israel; The Recent Search for Ancient Israel; Conclusion; 6. Reclaiming Palestinian History; Representing the History of Palestine; Reclaiming Palestinian History; Locating Palestinian History; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
9781317799153
Additional Edition:
Print version The Invention of Ancient Israel : The Silencing of Palestinian History
Language:
English
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