Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament - History, Hermeneutics, and Ideology (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Fortress Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Emerging Scholars
Release date:	June 2015
Editors:	Will Stalder
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	446
ISBN-13:	978-1-4514-8214-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > The Bible > Old Testament > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > The Bible > Old Testament > General Books > Christianity > The Bible > Old Testament Promotions
LSN:	1-4514-8214-0
Barcode:	9781451482140

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