New Faith in Ancient Lands

Berg, Heleen Murre-van den

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“…These biblical scholars had directly experienced the land that was the setting of the biblical narratives. Murre-van den Burg (2006, 51) has explained that the detailed descriptions of environmental features helped prove that ‘Israelite history was grounded in the reality of the geography of the Holy Land’. The accuracy of biblical accounts was seemingly confirmed by observations that geographical descriptions of the regions were accurate or at least plausible given the current knowledge of site identifications.…”

Section: Using 19th-century Palestine To Understand Iron Age Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast, Bedouin who had remained reflected a static or perhaps degraded level of social evolution, which for many of the missionaries (but not Thomson) justified European or North American colonialism in the region. Murre-van den Burg (2006, 53) further points to the presumed correlation between Jesus and the American Protestant missionaries, both of whom attempted to teach spiritual truths to those who were still practising ancient ways. Thus the missionaries themselves created a situation where they could imitate the role that they believed Jesus had once played.…”

Section: Using 19th-century Palestine To Understand Iron Age Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ethnological study provided a means for Europeans to embrace the Bible as a product of a different culture without calling into question the historical accuracy or divine inspiration surrounding the book. For American Protestants especially, literal readings of the Bible had become standard (Murre-van den Burg 2006, 49; Varisco 2002; 2013, 188). Direct correlations between biblical verse and 19th-century life and land were important means of supporting these new theologies, especially those literalist theologies that were not consonant with academic biblical criticism.…”

Section: Using 19th-century Palestine To Understand Iron Age Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Direct correlations between biblical verse and 19th-century life and land were important means of supporting these new theologies, especially those literalist theologies that were not consonant with academic biblical criticism. Unlike other orientalist approaches that fetishized cultural difference as problematic, the ethnographic approaches to biblical studies seemed to help ease discomfort with difference (see Murre-van den Burg 2006, 52, on further differences from more standard orientalist scholarship). The Eastern nature of the book was commented on directly by many in the period, including Samuel Schor (1934, 1), who explains, God's Word is an Eastern Book.…”

Section: Using 19th-century Palestine To Understand Iron Age Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The experience of the ‘Eastern-ness’ of the Bible allowed participants to divorce themselves from modernity by immersing themselves in a deeply moving, theological reality present both in the Bible and in travels to Bible lands. As Murre-van den Berg (2006, 62) has argued about these approaches to the region, it was presumed that ‘[w]ithout the country, the Bible remains a closed book.’…”

Section: Using 19th-century Palestine To Understand Iron Age Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The perils of ethnographic analogy. Parallel logics in ethnoarchaeology and Victorian Bible customs books

Cunningham¹,

McGeough²

2018

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In recent years, ethnoarchaeology and the use of ethnographic analogy have come under increasing criticism. Analogy seems necessary because, as post-industrial academics, archaeologists worry that they do not possess the knowledge necessary to interpret archaeological materials directly and thus must consult with coeval ‘premodern’ peoples to develop interpretive baselines. In this paper, we draw attention to a form of scholarly enquiry – 19th-century Bible customs books – that faced a similar challenge and used methodologies that parallel archaeology's use of ethnoarchaeological data. These were books written by missionaries who lived in Palestine for extended periods of time and studied Palestinian life to make sense of obscure elements of the biblical text, believing that life there had remained fundamentally unchanged for the past three thousand years. Using the Bible customs books as a kind of ‘cautionary tale’ typical of ethnoarchaeology, we argue that a consideration of this literature brings into focus some of the challenges faced by archaeologists’ use of analogy. Specifically, Bible customs books expose significant issues in how relations are conceptualized between archaeologists, others and ancients, and show how a strict empirical focus in ethnographic research can insulate key assumptions from critical scrutiny.

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Section: Using 19th-century Palestine To Understand Iron Age Israelmentioning

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Section: Using 19th-century Palestine To Understand Iron Age Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Using 19th-century Palestine To Understand Iron Age Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Using 19th-century Palestine To Understand Iron Age Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Using 19th-century Palestine To Understand Iron Age Israelmentioning

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2018

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Sanchez-Summerer

Zananiri

2020

European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948

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In this introductory chapter to Between Connection and Contention, Sanchez Summerer and Zananiri lay out the genesis of the project, an overview of issues related to the study of cultural diplomacy in relation to Christian Palestinians during the British Mandate and review various theoretical approaches to field. They establish the conceptual grounding of this interdisciplinary volume, which engages with methodologies from history, cultural studies and international relations. They layout how this volume approaches and reconceptualises the agency of the different actors involved as central to both the production of culture and its operationalisation through cultural diplomacy.

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Competition in the Cultural Sector: Handicrafts and the Rise of the Trade Fair in British Mandate Palestine

Ari

2020

European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948

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On the eve of Palestine’s violent ethno-national clashes of the 1930s, two simultaneous, competing trade fairs were mounted in Palestine: the Levant Fair in Tel Aviv (1932) and the First National Arab Fair in Jerusalem (1933). This chapter sketches a lineage of trade fairs in Palestine in the decades immediately prior to the debut of these duelling “national” fairs to investigate the roots of this typology within Palestine and its rise as a space for political action and debate. Undergirding the evolution of the trade fair in Palestine, the author argues, was the formation of a “cultural sector”—a conglomerate of institutions delimited by a distinct regional focus, furthering cultural development as part of both economic and political missions.

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New Faith in Ancient Lands

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The perils of ethnographic analogy. Parallel logics in ethnoarchaeology and Victorian Bible customs books

The perils of ethnographic analogy. Parallel logics in ethnoarchaeology and Victorian Bible customs books

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Competition in the Cultural Sector: Handicrafts and the Rise of the Trade Fair in British Mandate Palestine

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