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Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique

Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique

Prior, Michael

Paperback

Series: Biblical Seminar

Religion General Bible StudiesImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1850758158
ISBN13: 9781850758150
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: May 1 1997
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

The biblical claim of the divine promise of land is integrally linked with a divine mandate to exterminate the indigenous people. The narrative has supported virtually all Western colonizing enterprises (e.g. in Latin America, South Africa, Palestine), resulting in the suffering of millions of people, and loss of respect for the Bible. According to modern secular standards of human and political rights, what the biblical narrative calls for are war-crimes and crimes against humanity. In this provocative and compelling study, Prior protests at the neglect of the moral question in conventional biblical studies, and attempts to rescue the Bible from being a blunt instrument in the oppression of people.

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