Hidden histories Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean /
"This is a courageous foray into one of the most fraught terrains of history. Those who seek to understand one of the world's most misunderstood regions should read closely Ra'ad's meticulous retracing of its overwrought human record.---Djelal Kadir, The Edwin Erle Sparks Profess...
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London ; New York :
Pluto Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : understanding the history of the eastern Mediterranean
- Ancient myths, religions, and cultures. "Canaan nails" : idealized perceptions and their uses ; Polytheistic origins of monotheism ; Sacred sites, pagan roots ; Ugaritic revelations : what an ancient city tells us ; Wheels of fortune : the alphabet
- Modern myths and (de)colonized history. "Last of the Phoenicians" : identity questions ; Appropriation : Zionist cultural takeover ; Self-colonization : symptoms and outcomes ; Cats of Jerusalem ; Politics of place names ; Epilogue : retrieving the ancient subaltern.