[Peace-discuss] Shlomo Sand: The Invention of the Jewish People

[C. G. Estabrook]

  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

On 8/9/10 1:00 PM, David Green wrote:
> Hi Mort,
> 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.
> DG
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Morton K. Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu>
> *To:* David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Mon, August 9, 2010 12:30:47 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] Shlomo Sand: The Invention of the Jewish People
>
> David,
>
> 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.
>
> Mort
>
> On Aug 9, 2010, at 8:37 AM, David Green wrote:
>
>> A brief review of this book by Adam Sutcliffe, formerly on the faculty here:
>> http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?id=10668&jid=1&href=fulltext 
>> <http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?id=10668&jid=1&href=fulltext>
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