Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Photographs
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From the Particular to the Global and Back to the Project
- Part 1 THE LAND AS PLACE
- The Land of Israel/Palestine
- Jerusalem
- The Ownership of Land
- The Theology of the Land
- Generations of God Gifting the Land
- Conquering in the Name of God
- One God: Three Faiths
- The Word of God
- Scripture from a Palestinian Christian Perspective
- Scripture from a Muslim Perspective
- Scripture from a Jewish Perspective
- A Timeline from 1840–1967
- The Land and Population in Modern Day Israel/Palestine
- Settlers and Settlements
- Zionism: Secular and Religious
- Politics, Wars and New Beginnings
- Peacemakers: Jewish, Christian and Muslim
- The Wall, the Fence, the Barrier
- The Law Ancient, the Reality Today
- Part 2 LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Scripture Index
Conquering in the Name of God
from Part 1 - THE LAND AS PLACE
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Photographs
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From the Particular to the Global and Back to the Project
- Part 1 THE LAND AS PLACE
- The Land of Israel/Palestine
- Jerusalem
- The Ownership of Land
- The Theology of the Land
- Generations of God Gifting the Land
- Conquering in the Name of God
- One God: Three Faiths
- The Word of God
- Scripture from a Palestinian Christian Perspective
- Scripture from a Muslim Perspective
- Scripture from a Jewish Perspective
- A Timeline from 1840–1967
- The Land and Population in Modern Day Israel/Palestine
- Settlers and Settlements
- Zionism: Secular and Religious
- Politics, Wars and New Beginnings
- Peacemakers: Jewish, Christian and Muslim
- The Wall, the Fence, the Barrier
- The Law Ancient, the Reality Today
- Part 2 LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Scripture Index
Summary
As Michael Prior writes in The Bible and Colonialism, ‘The commandment that, ‘You shall devour all the peoples that Yahweh your God is giving over to you, showing them no pity’ (Deut. 7:6) is seen in a new light, when one recalls how such texts were used in support of colonialism in several regions and periods, in which the native peoples were the counterparts of the Hittites, the Girgashites and others’ (Prior 1999: 34). Arnold Toynbee continues this thought, when he says, ‘It was the same biblically recorded conviction of the Israelites that God had instigated them to exterminate the Canaanites that sanctioned the British conquest of North America, Ireland and Australia, the Dutch conquest of South Africa, the Prussian conquest of Poland and the Zionist conquest of Palestine’ (Prior 1999:39).
In addition, I would say these views of Prior and Toynbee are seen in our own United State's past history of conquest of the Native American peoples, our paternal protective and overseeing relationship with Puerto Rico, Guam and most recently our ‘conquest’ of Afghanistan and Iraq. In these one sided and biased relationships, power is uneven and out of balance. Goodness and godliness and righteousness are claimed – at the core – of the conquestor's rationale, yet are not necessarily present in godly, goodly action.
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- Shalom/Salaam/PeaceA Liberation Theology of Hope, pp. 41 - 44Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2008