A new critical approach to the history of Palestine : Palestine history and heritage project 1 / edited by Ingrid Hjelm, Hamdan Taha, Ilan Pappe, and Thomas L. Thompson.

Creating Coherence and Continuity: Suggestions and Illustrations of Methods and Themes / Thomas L. Thompson -- Palestinian Local Historical Narrative / Hamdan Taha -- Palestinian Identity: The Question of Historiography / Issam Nassar -- History of Palestine versus History of Israel?: The Minimalist -- Maximalist Debate / Ingrid Hjelm -- De-Theologising Medieval Palestine: Corpus, Tradition and Double-Critique / Joshua Sabih -- History, Curriculum and Textbooks: Reframing Palestine in the post-Oslo period / Nadia Naser-Najjab and Ilan Pappe -- Oral History's Credibility, Role and Functionality / Mahmoud Issa -- The Cultural and Linguistic Background of the Naming of Objects and Agricultural Installations in Palestine / Issam Halayqa -- The Production of Alternative Knowledge: Political Participation of Palestinian Women since the 1930s: A Case Study / Faiha Abdulhadi -- The Cultural Heritage between Ethnicity and Ethical Matters / Ghattas J. Sayej -- Narratives, Nucleotides, Nationhood: The Conundrum of Demographic Continuity and Discontinuity and the Quest for Historic Legitimacy / Michael Nathanson -- Patronage and the Political Anthropology of Ancient Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages / Emanuel Pfoh and Thomas L. Thompson -- "To Be an Israelite and a Judean as I Want You to Be": Material Culture and Ethnicity during the Iron Age / Hani Nur El-Din -- Theoretical Perspectives on Landscape and Memory, and the Case of Lubya as Lieu De Memoire / Bo Dahl Hermansen -- Community Archaeology in Palestine: Protection, Preservation and Promotion of Archaeological Heritage Sites in Palestine / Iman Saca -- The Al-Nuweima Mosque: An Archaeological Perspective on Modern History / Andrew Petersen -- Archaeology as Anthropology (Bioarcheology) / Issa Sarie -- Mapping Palestine: Biblical and Rabbinic Perspectives / Philip Davies -- Land, People, and Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Christian Eyes / Mitri Raheb -- Judaism's Response to the Invention of the Homeland / Shlomo Sand -- The History of Israel. But what Is this Israel?: Drawing Conclusions from Recent Research into the History of Ancient Palestine / Niels Peter Lemche.

"This volume is the first in a series which, under the auspices of the Palestine History and Heritage Project, introduces methods and principles for developing a comprehensive treatment of the history and cultural heritage of Palestine, based on evidence from archaeological, written and oral sources, under consideration of the most recent historical, archaeological and anthropological methods, the goals of which are neither nationalistic, ethno-centric, nor culturally exclusive and are aimed at a history of all the peoples of and in Palestine. The population of Palestine before World War I was ancient and, if one allows for the recurrent immigration and emigration endemic to Palestine's geographic role as land bridge, Palestine has supported the indigenous nature of its population with a remarkable continuity since the Neolithic period. At the same time, Palestine's people never belonged to or developed any particular, singular, dominating ethnicity, but rather has always distinguished itself with a large variety of regions and peoples, supported by a considerable variety of language, culture and history. This volume explores this diverse history against the backdrop of twentieth century scholarly construction of the history of Palestine as a history of a Jewish homeland, with roots in an ancient, biblical Israel, and examines the implications of this ancient and recent history for archaeology and cultural heritage." -- Provided by publisher.

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