Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: history, hermeneutics, and ideology

The foundation of the modern State of Israel in 1948 is commemorated by many Palestinians as a day of catastrophe. Many Palestinian Christians claim that the nakba was also spiritually catastrophic: the characters, names, events, and places of the Old Testament took on new significance with the newl...

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Main Author: Stalder, Will (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Minneapolis, MN Fortress Press [2015]
In:Year: 2015
Series/Journal:Emerging scholars
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Palestine / Christianity / Old Testament / Exegesis / Zionism / Israel / State / Founding
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Palestinian Arabs
B Palestinian Arabs (West Bank) Religion
B Christians
B Palestinian Arabs (Israel) Religion
B Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc History
B Bible
B Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc (Israel)
B Christians (Palestine)
B Christians (West Bank)
B Thesis
B Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc (West Bank)
B Christians (Israel)
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Summary:The foundation of the modern State of Israel in 1948 is commemorated by many Palestinians as a day of catastrophe. Many Palestinian Christians claim that the nakba was also spiritually catastrophic: the characters, names, events, and places of the Old Testament took on new significance with the newly formed political state, which caused vast portions of the text to become unusable in their eyes and be abandoned. Stalder asks how Palestinian Christians have read the Old Testament in the period before and under the British Mandate and now, in light of the foundation of the modern State of Israel, then contemplates how they might read these sacred texts in the future, interacting with proposals by Michael Prior, Charles Miller, and Gershon Nerel. His particular goal is to outline a possible hermeneutic that does not disregard the concerns of the respective religious communities without writing off the Old Testament prematurely
The foundation of the modern State of Israel in 1948 is commemorated by many Palestinians as a day of catastrophe. Many Palestinian Christians claim that the nakba was also spiritually catastrophic: the characters, names, events, and places of the Old Testament took on new significance with the newly formed political state, which caused vast portions of the text to become unusable in their eyes and be abandoned. Stalder asks how Palestinian Christians have read the Old Testament in the period before and under the British Mandate and now, in light of the foundation of the modern State of Israel, then contemplates how they might read these sacred texts in the future, interacting with proposals by Michael Prior, Charles Miller, and Gershon Nerel. His particular goal is to outline a possible hermeneutic that does not disregard the concerns of the respective religious communities without writing off the Old Testament prematurely
Item Description:Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.), this volume is a revision of his dissertation, completed at the University of Aberdeen, UK, 2012
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-393) and index
ISBN:1451482140