The Invention of Ancient Israel, the Silencing of Palestinian History
Chris | 09.02.2012 00:24 | History | Palestine | Sheffield
On 8th Feburary 2012, Professor Keith Whitelam addressed a packed room at the Friends Meeting House in Sheffield, on the subject of "The Invention of Ancient Israel, the Silencing of Palestinian History", the meeting was organised by the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Professor Keith Whitelam is author of The Invention of Ancient Israel, the Silencing of Palestinian History and Palestine, the Bible and the Imperial Imagination.
He writes “Biblical studies, as a discipline, has evolved a rhetoric of representation which has been passed down without examination and has dispossessed Palestinians of land and a past… The struggle for the Palestinian past is only just beginning. For it to succeed, it will be necessary to expose the political and religious interests which have motivated the invention of ancient Israel within the discourse of biblical studies.”
http://sheffieldpsc.org.uk/content/events/invention-ancient-israel-silencing-palestinian-history
He writes “Biblical studies, as a discipline, has evolved a rhetoric of representation which has been passed down without examination and has dispossessed Palestinians of land and a past… The struggle for the Palestinian past is only just beginning. For it to succeed, it will be necessary to expose the political and religious interests which have motivated the invention of ancient Israel within the discourse of biblical studies.”
http://sheffieldpsc.org.uk/content/events/invention-ancient-israel-silencing-palestinian-history
Chris
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not the first time...
09.02.2012 11:54
Behold, the Celts will rise again and all will unite behind the ancient ways and wipe the fascist scum off the face of our beautiful Gaea.
Breogan
making facts
12.02.2012 10:37
I have also witnessed the israeli army dynamiting an ancient pre roman water cistern which local bedouins were using to water their flocks. The army said that there had not been any planning permission for a water cistern there!
This is the situation in the west bank, a total remaking of history.
Non semitic white skinned european jews, claiming to be returning home (to a desert!!), and kicking semitic palestinians off the land.
its racism at best.
Israel is a racist state.
But i don't think a palestinian state would be any less racist, 2 states is not the answer, the answer is for the young people of both sides to reject the tired patriarchal dogma which keeps them apart and to accept eachothers equal rights and live in harmony. Might sound a bit far fetched..... but thats the only thing that will solve the mess.
dst