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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