Reading the Bible amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a difficult, complex interface in which new postures, new possibilities, and new dangers are constantly emerging, so that reiterations of old formulae are at best unhelpful. A biblical interpreter can make only a very modest contribution to that ongoing urgent con...

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1. VerfasserIn: Brueggemann, Walter 1933- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: [2016]
In: Theology today
Jahr: 2016, Band: 73, Heft: 1, Seiten: 36-45
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
BH Judentum
HB Altes Testament
KBL Naher Osten; Nordafrika
weitere Schlagwörter:B Holy Land
B Distributive Justice
B Bible
B chosenness
B Israeli-Palestinian conflict
B Interpretation
B Arab-Israeli conflict
B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Palestine
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Zusammenfassung:The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a difficult, complex interface in which new postures, new possibilities, and new dangers are constantly emerging, so that reiterations of old formulae are at best unhelpful. A biblical interpreter can make only a very modest contribution to that ongoing urgent conversation. In what follows I will seek to sort out some of the extrapolations that are made from the Bible. It is clear that the Bible, as the rabbis have always understood, is filled with playful ambiguity and supple plural possibilities. Where that ambiguity and suppleness of the Bible is flattened into an ideological certitude that yields specific benefit, we likely have a misreading of the Bible.
ISSN:2044-2556
Enthält:Enthalten in: Theology today
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0040573616630025