Recourse to ‘divine right’ in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories
An analysis from Biblical Studies
Abstract
This article presents an analysis of the instrumentalization of the Bible to legitimize the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. From an exploration of the content of the hegemonic interpretations of the phenomenon, it characterizes the background of the discourse that, since the sixteenth century and in mainly Protestant and evangelical sectors, has insisted on promoting the presence of the Jewish people in the territories of Historic Palestine. Taking into account the uses made of the Bible by evangelical millenarianism and Zionist Jewish sectors to justify the creation of a Jewish State and the subsequent occupation, we turn to the contribution of Biblical Studies, proposing that a scientific approach that considers the literary, historical and theological dimensions of the material allows an exercise of demythologization, characterizing the discourse of the 'divine right' as the ideological production of political groups, both in the biblical text and in the present day.
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