The Land, the Bible, and History: Toward the Land That I Will Show You

257 Pages·2007·3.14 MB·English

by  Alain Marchadour

The Land, the Bible, and History
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Theland,theBible,andhistory:towardthelandthatIwillshow
you/AlainMarchadour,DavidNeuhaus.—1sted.
p. cm.—(TheAbrahamicdialoguesseries;no.5)
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
ISBN-13:978-0-8232-2659-7(cloth:alk.paper)
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1. Bible—Geography. 2. Bible—Historyofbiblicalevents.
3. Bible—Historyofcontemporaryevents. 4. Palestine—
Churchhistory. 5. Israel—Churchhistory. 6. Palestine—
History. 7. Israel—History. 8. CatholicChurch—Doctrines.
9. Bible—Criticism,interpretation,etc. I. Neuhaus,David,
1962– II. Title.
BS635.3.M37 2006
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2006037392
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Firstedition
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Contents
ListofFramedTexts vii
Foreword ix
CarloMariaCardinalMartini,S.J.
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
PartI:InterpretingtheLand intheBible
1 TheLandintheOldTestament 9
2 TheLandintheNewTestament 63
PartII:TheLandinChristianTradition
3 VisitingtheLand 89
4 AChristianReadingoftheLanduntilVaticanII 108
5 ShakingUpaFamiliarLandscape 125
PartIII:TheLand intheContemporary
DocumentsoftheCatholicChurch
6 TraditionalChristianAttachmenttotheLand 147
7 TheInterpretationoftheBible 151
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8 InterreligiousDialogue 160
9 PeaceandJustice 177
Conclusion—HolyLands:YesterdayandToday 187
Appendix:Redemptionisanno:ApostolicLetterofPope
JohnPaulII(April20,1984) 203
Notes 209
SelectedBibliography 223
Index 227
IndexofBiblicalCitations 233
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List of Framed Texts
1. ANoteontheUseoftheTermHolyLand 5
2. BabelandJerusalem 13
3. Inthebeginning... 14
4. TheTownofShechem 16
5. ThePriceoftheLand 19
6. TheTent,WhereGodMeetsMan 22
7. TheGiftoftheLandandItsObligations 24
8. TheViolenceofGod 25
9. TheDreamofMoses 30
10. TheDeuteronomist:AReadingofSevenCenturies
ofHistory 31
11. LandofDreams,LandofViolence 45
12. Justice(Mishpat)andRighteousness(Tsedaka)in
theLand 49
13. Jeremiah,thePoetoftheLand 53
14. TheChangingBordersoftheLand 60
15. Blessedarethemeek,fortheyshallinherittheLand
(Mt5:5) 76
16. TheLandandChrist 86
17. PilgrimageintheBible 92
18. TheHolySpiritandtheHolyPlaces 98
19. TheLandandtheRabbinicTradition 100
20. TheWarforGod 103
21. TheLandandtheMuslimTradition 105
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22. ChristianReadingoftheOldTestament 111
23. TheTrueLand 114
24. TheMythoftheWanderingJew 121
25. Judaism,Zionism,andtheStateofIsrael 127
26. ZionismandtheBiblicalHeritage 130
27. Palestine,PalestinianArabs,andPalestinian
Nationalism 131
28. TheSurpriseoftheExcavationsinJericho 141
29. TheOfficialStatusoftheChurches 150
30. WhatIsChristianZionism? 198
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Foreword
CarloMariaCardinalMartini,S.J.
Anyone even vaguely familiar with the Bible realizes how important
theLandisintheScriptures.Ingeneralterms,theLandreferstospace
createdbyGodforthehuman person.Inmorespecificterms,itdesig-
natesthestripofterritoryonceinhabitedbytheCanaanites,thenprom-
ised to Abraham on the occasion of his call, becoming for many
centuriestheresidenceandhomelandoftheJews,onlytobecome,later
on,bootydividedupamongmanydifferentpeoples.
ThisportionoftheearththatwouldbecomeknownastheHolyLand
or, alternatively, as Palestine or Israel, is not only sporadically men-
tioned in the holy books but has an almost omnipresent quality. This
bookbearswitnesstotheconstantinterestinthisthemeoftheLandas
itappearsinallthebooksthatmakeuptheHolyScriptures.Theauthors
of thepresentwork havedeemeditfittingtoread thediversebooksof
theBibleaccordingtotheirorderintheChristiancanon,reviewingand
weighing up all of the numerous times that the Land is mentioned al-
mostineachandeverypageoftheHolyBook.
ThesurveybeginsinthefirstchaptersofGenesis,withthecreation
and theordering of the landinhabited by human beings.However, the
theme becomes a burning issue with the call of Abraham, to whom a
particular Land is promised, a land in which he and his descendants
shall dwell. From this point on the reader is accompanied through the
pagesoftheBibleinstudyingandanalyzingthediversewaysinwhich
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