GOD AND GAZA:
Reflections on the Palestinian Crisis
with Sigve Tonstad
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Suggested Video:
Rashid Khalidi interviewed by Chris Hedges:
The 100 Years War On Palestine
Suggested Reading:
Book by Rashid Khalidi, The 100 Years War On Palestine
Book by Peter Beinart, The Crisis Of Zionism
Available at Amazon as Kindle for $2.97 for limited time
Book by Edward Said, The Question of Palestine
Finally, I just read an approving Facebook repost by a fellow Adventist of a dispensationalist expression of apocalyptic faith. It perfectly represents my concern that Adventists uncritically identify with and often accept the dispensationalist Apocalyptic which includes a Zionist narrative focusing on the return of Jerusalem to the Jews. This extraordinary confusion is common in Adventism, reinforcing opposition to the Palestinian people, and I recommend this article at the website Baptist Global News
Sigve K. Tonstad is Research Professor of Biblical Interpretation and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University. He has worked as a physician and pastor and since 2007 as a faculty member at the School of Religion at Loma Linda University. His books in English are The Scandals of the Bible (Autumn House, 2000),Saving God’s Reputation: The Theological Function of Pistis Iesou in the Cosmic Narratives of Revelation (T. & T. Clark, 2006),The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day (Andrews University Press, 2009), God of Sense and Traditions of Non-Sense ( Stock, 2016), Letter to the Romans: Paul among the Ecologists (Earth Bible Series; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2017), and The Paideia Commentary on Revelation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019). (Adventist Today
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