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This volume offers a collection of seminal essays by Keith Whitelam on the early history of ancient Palestine and the origins and emergence of Israel.

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The quest for the historical Jesus has invariably tried to make senseof his world by constructing what it considers to be the historiclandscapes that he inhabited. These essays explore how we do notcreate an actual past or rediscover an actual landscape with its townsand villages but 'imaginary homelands' that allow us to inhabit andpossess the past.The papers in this volume explore the ways in which constructionsof the Holy Land as homeland h...

The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam argues that ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state. He explores the theological and political assumptions which have shaped research into ancient Israel by Biblical scholars, and contributed to the vast network of scholarship which Said identified as 'Orientalist ...

Shows how ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state, influenced by the Israeli state created in 1948, Biblical scholars have contibuted to dispossessing the Palestinians of their land and their past.