Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: History, Hermeneutics, and Ideology

by Will Stalder (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451482140
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	06/01/2015
Series:	Emerging Scholars
Pages:	446
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Will Stalder received his PhD in divinity (Old Testament/Hebrew Bible) from the University of Aberdeen, UK, in 2012, completing his dissertation under the direction of Professor Joachim Schaper of the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy at King"s College. He is minister of Methlick Parish Church in Methlick, Scotland.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction xvii

Part I Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: Hermeneutics

1 The Elements of Palestinian Christian Hermeneutics of the Old Testament 3

Part II Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: History

2 Palestinian Christianity and the Dawn of Zionism 79

3 Palestinian Christianity and the "Promise" of a Jewish Homeland 137

4 Palestinian Christianity and the "Catastrophe" of the Modern State of Israel 175

Part III Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: Ideology

5 Perspectives on Palestinian Christian Hermeneutics of the Old Testament 201

6 A Prescription for a Palestinian Christian Hermeneutic of the Old Testament 243

Conclusion 323

Bibliography 343

Index 395