Victorian ethnographic perceptions of Palestine and the historiography of ancient Israel: a preliminary exploration
Abstract: Victorian travellers, explorers and scholars in the Levant produced a series of ethnographic observations of Palestine’s indigenous population essentially through biblical lenses. These perceptions sought ultimately to retrieve the biblical past in the context of the imperial present. A...
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Taylor & Francis
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/16106 |
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| Sumario: | Abstract: Victorian travellers, explorers and scholars in the Levant produced a series
of ethnographic observations of Palestine’s indigenous population
essentially through biblical lenses. These perceptions sought ultimately
to retrieve the biblical past in the context of the imperial present. At
the same time, modern historiography about ancient Israel developed
during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While the full-blown
allochronism and Orientalism of the early modern Western visitors to
Palestine have in recent decades been surpassed by more critical
insights in the scholarly assessment of the region, some traits from that
Victorian ethnographic and Bible-centred gaze still linger in
contemporary historical constructions of ancient Palestine through the
concept of ‘ancient Israel’, notably in the conceptualisation and
periodisation of such a history. |
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