The Name Game: Archaeologies of the Land of the Bible, Eretz Yisrael, the Holy Land and Palestine
In post-modernist terms, archaeology, like history, is not practiced for itself but for someone or something. That much is clear with the archaeology of the cis-Jordanian region of the Near East where it has served to sustain anthropological-ethnological models driven by biblical and nationalistic-b...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2019]
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Scandinavian journal of the Old Testament
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-81 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Archaeology
/ Philistines
/ Depiction
/ West Jordan land
/ Palestine
/ Eretz Yisrael Shelanu
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IxTheo Classification: | HH Archaeology KBL Near East and North Africa ZC Politics in general |
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Summary: | In post-modernist terms, archaeology, like history, is not practiced for itself but for someone or something. That much is clear with the archaeology of the cis-Jordanian region of the Near East where it has served to sustain anthropological-ethnological models driven by biblical and nationalistic-based theories. Words, terms, labels and names have meanings that not infrequently are consequential thus, constructing an archeology-abetted past of spaces named Holy Land, Eretz Yisrael and Land of the Bible belies the discipline's claim to scientific neutrality. No less, naming the cis-Jordanian territories of the Bronze and Iron Ages a "Palestine" is anachronistic and not uniformly acceptable. As long as Archaeology is tasked with proving the veracity of ancient epigraphy and texts and legitimizing claims of ancestral privilege and ur-ownership of ancient lands, the more glaring its failure and the greater the impediment to settling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. |
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ISSN: | 1502-7244 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Scandinavian journal of the Old Testament
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2019.1600256 |