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OK, I'm going to have to read it. I'm teaching a History of
Christianity course in the Religious Studies Department this fall,
and in fact there's been some interesting academic work in the last
decade on the inter-mixture of Judaism and Christianity ca.
200-500CE. I hope I have students au courant enough to ask about
Sand & the the early relationship between Judaism and
Christianity. --CGE<br>
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On 8/9/10 1:00 PM, David Green wrote:
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<div>I'm more than half-way through it, and it's fascinating,
although often tough going. It's also very well-written,
well-translated, or both. I think it gets at historical
truths, but more interestingly (as Adam points out) at
historiographical truths from 19th century Germany, through
the origins of Zionism, to the present. What's done is done,
and Israel "exists." But it wouldn't hurt if people understood
the implications of the likelihood that the Palestinians are
descendants of the Judaeans of antiquity, and that Jews like
you and me are almost certainly not. It also says a lot about
the early relationship between Judaism and Christianity that
is not well known.</div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon,
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Re: [Peace-discuss] Shlomo Sand: The Invention of the
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<base>David,
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<div>Thanks for sending this along. Have you read Sand's
book? Opinions? There are many on the Amazon web site for
this book. Of course, how to distinguish the politics from
the "truth" is a problem seen there. </div>
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