RT Book
T1 Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: history, hermeneutics, and ideology
T2 Emerging scholars
A1 Stalder, Will
LA English
PP Minneapolis, MN
PB Fortress Press
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/838540325
AB 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
AB 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
NO Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.), this volume is a revision of his dissertation, completed at the University of Aberdeen, UK, 2012
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-393) and index
CN BS1160
SN 9781451482140
SN 9781451499759
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc : History
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc : Israel
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc : West Bank
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K1 Christians : West Bank
K1 Christians : Palestine
K1 Palestinian Arabs : Israel : Religion
K1 Palestinian Arabs : West Bank : Religion
K1 Bible
K1 Christians
K1 Palestinian Arabs
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