Decolonizing Palestine
Decolonizing Palestine
Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, the People, the Bible
Mitri Raheb
Orbis, 2023
ISBN 9781626985490
Softcover
Decolonizing Palestine challenges the weaponization of biblical texts to support the current settler-colonial state of Israel. Raheb argues that some of the most important theological concepts -Israel, the land, election, and chosen people - must be decolonized in a paradigm shift in Christian theological thinking about Palestine. Decolonizing Palestineis a timely book that builds on the latest research in settler-colonialism and human rights to place traditional theological themes within the wider socio-political context of settler colonialism as it is practiced by the modern nation-state of Israel. Written by a native Palestinian Christian theologian who continues to live in the region, Decolonizing Palestineprovides an insider's perspective that disrupts hegemonic and imperialist narratives about the region.