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A controversial
and provocative work, The Invention of Ancient Israel
chronicles how
 the
true history of ancient Palestine has been obscured. Keith W.
Whitelam reveals how ancient Israel has been invented by
scholars in the image of a European nation state; one that
resembles the state of Israel created in 1948.
This book explores the prospects for developing the study of
Palestinian history as a subject in its own right, divorced
from the history of the Bible, and argues that Biblical
scholars, through their traditional view of this area, have
contributed to dispossession both of a Palestinian land and a
Palestinian past.
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