This book will apply the work of Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman,
Edward Said and several others on international politics and the
supportive role of the media, intellectuals and academics to
contemporary Christian origins and New Testament scholarship. Part
One will look at the ways in which New Testament and Christian
origins scholarship has historically been influenced by its
political and social settings over the past hundred years or so.
Moving on to the present, the following chapter will then apply
Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model of manufacturing consent in
the mass media to the recent explosion of biblical scholars writing
on the internet, in particularly biblio-bloggers. It is clear that
political views in biblio-blogging conform strikingly to the
emphases that come through in Herman and Chomskys analysis of the
mass media and intellectuals, particularly with the standard lines
on the war on terror and views on the contemporary Middle East. The
rest of the book will take up modified key areas of the propaganda
model in more detail.Part Two will look at the Orientalist rhetoric
of clashing civilisations and how this relates to the war on terror
and the creation of Islam, Arabs, Middle East etc. as the Great
Enemy in the media and relevant intellectual thought since the
1970s and, to use Derek Gregorys phrase, hideously emboldened in
the war on terror. The next chapter will then show how this context
has had a highly noticeable impact on the use of social sciences in
New Testament and Christian origins scholarship, in particular the
stark generalisations of scholars using cultural/social
anthropology based on contemporary studies of the Middle East.
Disturbingly, some of thisscholarship has many rhetorical links
with Anglo-American foreign policy interests in the Middle East and
beyond, making some politically charged statements that cohere
closely with recent intellectual defences of actions in Iraq,
Palestine and beyond.Part Three will look at issues of Palestine
and Israel in the media alongside Christian, secular and relevant
intellectual thought since the Six Day War of 1967, focusing in
particular on the dramatic shift towards widespread support for
Israel. This will also include an analysis of the recent and
controversial case of Nadia Abu el-Hajs tenure at Barnard. The
following chapter will show how this interest in Israel has had a
profound impact on historical Jesus and Christian origins studies,
particularly the strange emphasis on Jewishness and misplaced
allegations of antisemitism since the 1970s. It will also be seen
that despite the shift in support of Israel this is rarely done for
love of Jews, Judaism, Israel or Israelis because there remains a
notable cultural, political and religious superiority in
Anglo-American scholarship. While owing much also to an Orientalist
tradition, this too is strongly echoed in scholarship of Christian
origins where, for all the emphasis on the Jewishness of Jesus and
the first Christians, it is extremely common to find Jesus or the
first Christians being better than Judaism or overriding key
symbols of Judaism as constructed by scholarship, done, ironically,
by frequent ignoring of relevant Jewish texts. The end results of
contemporary scholarship are not dramatically different from the
results of the anti-Jewish and antisemitic scholarship of much of
the twentieth century.
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