Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Partial Texts and Fractured Histories; Chapter 2 Denying Space and Time to Palestinian History; Chapter 3 Inventing Ancient Israel; Chapter 4 The Creation of an Israelite State; Chapter 5 The Continuing Search; Chapter 6 Reclaiming Palestinian History;

About the Author

Keith W. Whitelam is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Stirling. He is the co-author of The Emergence of Early Israel in Historical Perspective (1987), and has produced a series of articles on ancient Israelite and Palestinian history.

Reviews

'Keith Whitlam's work serves to remind us what a vital if fraught exercise it still is to engage explicitly with the unique cultural influence of the Old Testament on the contemporary world.' - The Friend

'This is a brave, fascinating and important book ... constantly thought provoking and controversial.' - Sunday Times

'Whitelam can (and will) be criticized for introducing politics into "ancient Israel", he is merely exposing it - and the Palestinians are after all the major victims of a zionizing European and American biblical scholarship. This book should be in paperback, and compulsory reading.' - Journal for the Study of the Old Testament