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Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: The Promised Land, America, and Israel 1917-2002.(book)(Book review)
Publication: International Journal on World Peace Publication Date: 01-SEP-05 Author: Swazo, Norman K.
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Professors World Peace Academy
BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION AND MIDDLE EAST POLICY: THE PROMISED LAND, AMERICA, AND ISRAEL 1917-2002
Irvine H. Anderson
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005
Hardcover, 188 pages, $39.95
JERUSALEM BESIEGED: FROM ANCIENT CANAAN TO MODERN ISRAEL
Eric H. Cline
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004
Paperback, 400 pages, $19.95
Events surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict readily provide reason for political analysis. But there is a cultural/historical dimension of this dispute that is generating pertinent and informative scholarly attention such as that presented by Anderson and Cline.
As a seasoned authority in American diplomatic history, Anderson ably engages an important element of contemporary cultural critique. Over several chapters Anderson discusses the significance of modes of biblical interpretation (the dominant "polar opposites" being the "literal-prophetic" and the "historical-critical") about "the Promised Land." In doing so he describes skillfully what these interpretive modes entail for "Christian Zionist" and "dispensational premillenialist"...
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