Canaanite Genocide and Palestinian Nakba in Conversation: A Postcolonial Exercise in Bi-directional Hermeneutics

IF 1 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies Pub Date : 2019-04-24 DOI:10.3366/HLPS.2019.0201

B. N. Fisk

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Abstract

David Ben-Gurion's attempt to forge a collective Israeli identity rooted in the biblical conquest myth adopted a bi-directional hermeneutic: biblical text and modern reality were mutually illuminating. While Ben-Gurion read Scripture ‘from above’, with the eyes of the IDF, Edward Said called for readings ‘from below’, with the eyes of the Canaanites. Following Said, this paper reads the Conquest narrative and the Nakba bi-directionally, tracing four themes: (1) Depopulation and dispossession, (2) Traitors and Tricksters, (3) Spoils of War, (4) Incomplete expulsion. The exercise cautions those who see both narratives as zero-sum games only one side of which merits moral consideration.

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对话中的迦南种族灭绝与巴勒斯坦Nakba:双向解释学的后殖民实践

大卫·本-古里安试图建立一个植根于圣经征服神话的集体以色列身份，采用了双向解释学:圣经文本和现代现实相互启发。当本-古里安以以色列国防军的眼光“从上面”阅读圣经时，爱德华·赛义德则要求以迦南人的眼光“从下面”阅读圣经。在此基础上，本文从四个主题(1)人口减少和剥夺、(2)叛徒和骗子、(3)战利品、(4)不完全驱逐来解读征服叙事和Nakba。这种做法提醒了那些认为两种叙述都是零和游戏的人，其中只有一方值得道德考虑。

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Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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0.80

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies (formerly Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal) was founded in 2002 as a fully refereed international journal. It publishes new, stimulating and provocative ideas on Palestine, Israel and the wider Middle East, paying particular attention to issues that have a contemporary relevance and a wider public interest. The journal draws upon expertise from virtually all relevant disciplines: history, politics, culture, literature, archaeology, geography, economics, religion, linguistics, biblical studies, sociology and anthropology. The journal deals with a wide range of topics: ‘two nations’ and ‘three faiths’; conflicting Israeli and Palestinian perspectives; social and economic conditions; religion and politics in the Middle East; Palestine in history and today; ecumenism, and interfaith relations; modernisation and postmodernism; religious revivalisms and fundamentalisms; Zionism, Neo-Zionism, Christian Zionism, anti-Zionism and Post-Zionism; theologies of liberation in Palestine and Israel; colonialism, imperialism, settler-colonialism, post-colonialism and decolonisation; ‘History from below’ and Subaltern studies; ‘One-state’ and Two States’ solutions in Palestine and Israel; Crusader studies, Genocide studies and Holocaust studies. Conventionally these diversified discourses are kept apart. This multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary journal brings them together.