what it means to be palestinian: stories of palestinian peoplehood
Before becoming Circulation Supervisor here at the Shush Library, I attended Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (UTS-NYC) as a Main of Divinity student with a focus in Interreligious Engagement. My particular surface area of academic enquiry lies in two singled-out segments of scholarship; one) Judeo-Christian relations in Late Antiquity, and ii) the modern conflict in State of israel/Palestine. Earlier arriving at UTS-NYC I attended Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary at graduated in May 2014 with a MA in Religious Thought. In January 2014 I participated in a calendar month-long travel seminar to the Holy Country, sparking an involvement that has grown substantially.
When I visited State of israel/Palestine in early 2014 I had no idea how much of an impact the trip would have on my continued vocational work.
From exploring historic landmarks and aboriginal ruins throughout the region, to sharing coffee at a local Palestinian cafe next to the wall in Beit Sahour with new friends, the trip changed my life. Beit Sahour is a refugee camp on the eastern side of Bethlehem. When about people hear the term refugee camp, tents and non-permanent structures come to heed. Even so, in Beit Sahour and the other refugee camps inside the West Banking company, which have now been effectually for well over 60 years, dwellings are quite permanent. The experience I had in the West Bank was eye-opening, insightful, heartbreaking, and joyous. As a denizen of the United States I was able to move freely in and out of checkpoints and through gated areas with little to no questioning from the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers virtually my intentions. Information technology became more obvious to me each day simply how limited travel is to Palestinians living in both Israel proper and inside the Occupied Territories. What makes things fifty-fifty less blackness and white, and way more grey is that people living side-by-side one some other, or in some cases directly higher up and below take drastically different sentiments about whose state they are living on. On an "illegal" excursion to Hebron, my privileged position as a United states passport carrying citizen became all the more clear.
Something interesting about the Holy Land, as in many other places effectually the world, is that people continuously build on top of more aboriginal cultures and civilizations. We build our dwellings right on top of the lived realities of those that accept come before us. In many instances, international Christian communities like to build churches right on summit of historical sites, particularly in the Galilee region. Not only do Christian churches get build on peak of ancient Jewish synagogues, merely Jewish settler apartment complexes get built correct on top of now airtight Palestinian homes and storefronts.
It became articulate to me that the vision that Jewish settlers in the Westward Banking concern accept for a homeland is in contrast to the vision that Palestinian Arabs, both Christian and Muslim, would have of their homeland.
The experiences in State of israel/Palestine in 2014 were not all bleak and dreadful. I of my favorite photos from the trip is of me standing within a church on the Mount of Olives overlooking the borders of the erstwhile urban center of Jerusalem. As I stood there I remember noticing that at that place was a mesmerizing unity of the cross located on the altar lined upwardly perfectly with the Dome of the Rock, and the Wailing/Western wall that falls directly behind. The moment captured the hope that I have: that people of three faiths tin live together in harmony.
When I arrived back in u.s.a. after my trip I found myself unable to put abroad from my heed the images and stories I had seen and hear while visiting the people that inhabit the land within historic Palestine. I joined the Israel Palestine Mission network of the Presbyterian Church (United states), moved to Massachusetts to participate in a year of service, and then found myself in NYC post-obit a call to ordained ministry in the PC (U.s.a.). Of all the social justice issues pond around the campus of Matrimony Theological Seminary in the City of New York, the ane that is minimally best-selling is the moral, economical, social, and religious crisis in State of israel/Palestine.
Now that I'm at the Burke in a more than official capacity, it makes the most sense for me to share with you lot all the wonderful resource that the Shush, the wider Columbia University Libraries network, and the city of New York have to offer regarding issues around the current disharmonize in Israel and Palestine. For the last few months I have been conducting research in our collections, searching for anything relating to Israel and Palestine, current country rights in historic Palestine, apartheid in the Holy land, and walls and borders throughout history. I've been lucky enough to notice a plethora of resources that I would similar to share with the wider customs:
From the circulating collections of the Shush Library:
Located on 1 of the New Book shelves, this piece of work echos many of the other works by Ateek. In Burke nosotros likewise have Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation, and A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation both authored by Ateek.
Besides held at Shush are several of the works written by Marriage Theological Seminary NYC Doctor of Philosophy graduate W. Eugene March including: Israel and the Politics of Land : A Theological Case Study, God's Land on Loan: Israel, Palestine, and the World, God's Tapestry: Reading the Bible in a Globe of Religious Diversity, as well as The Broad Wide Circumvolve of Divine Love: A Biblical Case for Religious Diversity.
In improver to these we also hold several books by Mitri Raheb in the wider Columbia Libraries Network, including I Am A Palestinian Christian, Religion in the Religion of Empire, Bethlehem Besieged : Stories of Promise in Times of Trouble, and the recently published The Cantankerous in Contexts : Suffering and Redemption in Palestine has been ordered and will be bachelor at Burke one time it arrives.
A few other resources within the Columbia University Libraries to draw your attention to:
Comprehending Christian Zionism: Perspectives in Comparing, Goran Gunner and Robert O.Smith, editors, 2014.
The Biblical Text in the Context of Occupation : Towards a New Hermeneutics of Liberation, Mitri Raheb, editor, 2012.
The Gospel and the Land of Promise : Christian Approaches to the State of the Bible, Philip Church, editor, 2011.
I would too recommend:
What It Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood,Dina Mater, 2011.
Anything by Ilan Pappe.
Israel/Palestine-related events are happening throughout New York. To highlight i which just airtight at the stop of February, please see data on traveling exhibit of Bethlehem Beyond the Wall upwards at Manhattan College in the Bronx.
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Source: https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/burke/2018/03/02/3051/
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