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Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal

Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal

Volume 7, Number 1, May 2008

E-ISSN: 1750-0125 Print ISSN: 1474-9475

DOI: 10.1353/hls.0.0004

Professor Thomas L. Thompson
The Politics of Reading the Bible in Israel
Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal - Volume 7, Number 1, May 2008, pp. 1-15

Edinburgh University Press

Abstract:

The biblical themes of exile, return, the blossoming of the desert and the promise of the land have been transformed to support Zionist nationalist policies of ethnic cleansing. Biblical and archaeological scholarship, itself, has contributed substantially to the de-Arabicisation of Palestinian toponymy, the understanding of the Bible's allegorical narratives as nationalist epic and an ethno-centric understanding of Palestine's ancient history.


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