
Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament
History, Hermeneutics, and Ideology
- 446 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament
History, Hermeneutics, and Ideology
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: Hermeneutics
- Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: History
- Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: Ideology
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index