This book applies the work of Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Edward Said and several others on international politics and the supportive role of the media, intellectuals and academics to contemporary Christian origins and New Testament scholarship. Part One looks at the ways in which New Testament and Christian origins scholarship has historically been influenced by its political and social settings over the past hundred years or so. Part Two looks at the Orientalist rhetoric of clashing civilisations and how this relates to the 'war on terror' and the creation of Islam, Arabs, Middle East etc. as the Great Enemy in the media and relevant intellectual thought since the 1970s and, to use Derek Gregory's phrase, 'hideously emboldened' in the 'war on terror'.Part Three looks at issues of Palestine and Israel in the media alongside Christian, secular and relevant intellectual thought since the 'Six Day War' of 1967, focusing in particular on the dramatic shift towards widespread support for Israel. This also includes an analysis of the recent and controversial case of Nadia Abu el-Haj's tenure at Barnard.
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'This work is chocked full of important and innovative observations - and the book as a whole makes a seminal contribution to the field. It is sharp, to the point, and critically engaging. I have absolute confidence it will be well received by biblical scholars of all persuasions.' --Todd Penner, Gould H. and Marie Cloud Associate Professor in Religious Studies, Austin College, Texas
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James G. Crossley is Lecturer in New Testament Studies in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. His recent publications include The Date of Mark's Gospel: Insight from the Law in Earliest Christianity (2004) and Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins 26-50CE (2006)
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The book features an insightful and artfully argued attack on ideologies that control scholars, going back to the 19th century. Point well made but limited in scope. The critique of the Context Group, however, is notably lacking in credibility. It's a hard sell that working through cross-cultural models, as the Context Group systematically has over its many years, contributes to Anglo-American hegemony. Do models proposed by established anthropologists really reflect Said's "Orientalism" phenomenon? If ever there was a group of diligent scholars promoting fair assessment, it's this group with its many efforts to penetrate false contemporary assumptions to establish meanings in the context of the authors. Honest assessment requires re-thinking in this study that otherwise is a clarion call to examine socio-cultural agendas.
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