what it means to be palestinian: stories of palestinian peoplehood
Before condign Apportionment Supervisor here at the Shush Library, I attended Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (UTS-NYC) as a Master of Divinity student with a focus in Interreligious Engagement. My particular area of academic research lies in two distinct segments of scholarship; 1) Judeo-Christian relations in Late Artifact, and 2) the modern conflict in State of israel/Palestine. Before 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 month-long travel seminar to the Holy Land, sparking an interest that has grown essentially.
When I visited 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 celebrated landmarks and aboriginal ruins throughout the region, to sharing coffee at a local Palestinian cafe adjacent to the wall in Beit Sahour with new friends, the trip inverse my life. Beit Sahour is a refugee camp on the eastern side of Bethlehem. When most people hear the term refugee campsite, tents and non-permanent structures come to heed. Nonetheless, in Beit Sahour and the other refugee camps inside the West Bank, which have at present been around for well over lx years, dwellings are quite permanent. The experience I had in the West Bank was eye-opening, insightful, heartbreaking, and joyous. Every bit a citizen of the The states I was able to move freely in and out of checkpoints and through gated areas with fiddling to no questioning from the Israeli Defense force Strength (IDF) soldiers about my intentions. It became more obvious to me each twenty-four hours merely how express 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 than greyness is that people living side-past-side one another, or in some cases directly above and below have drastically different sentiments near whose land they are living on. On an "illegal" excursion to Hebron, my privileged position as a U.s.a. passport carrying denizen became all the more than articulate.
Something interesting about the Holy State, as in many other places around the earth, is that people continuously build on top of more ancient cultures and civilizations. Nosotros build our dwellings right on pinnacle of the lived realities of those that take come before the states. In many instances, international Christian communities like to build churches correct on pinnacle of historical sites, especially in the Galilee region. Non but exercise Christian churches go build on elevation of ancient Jewish synagogues, just Jewish settler apartment complexes get congenital correct on peak of at present airtight Palestinian homes and storefronts.
It became clear to me that the vision that Jewish settlers in the West Bank take for a homeland is in contrast to the vision that Palestinian Arabs, both Christian and Muslim, would take of their homeland.
The experiences in State of israel/Palestine in 2014 were not all bleak and dreadful. Ane of my favorite photos from the trip is of me standing within a church building on the Mount of Olives overlooking the borders of the onetime city of Jerusalem. As I stood there I retrieve noticing that there was a mesmerizing unity of the cross located on the altar lined up perfectly with the Dome of the Rock, and the Wailing/Western wall that falls directly behind. The moment captured the hope that I take: that people of 3 faiths can alive together in harmony.
When I arrived back in united states of america subsequently my trip I found myself unable to put away from my mind the images and stories I had seen and hear while visiting the people that inhabit the land inside historic Palestine. I joined the Israel Palestine Mission network of the Presbyterian Church (Usa), moved to Massachusetts to participate in a year of service, and then found myself in NYC post-obit a call to ordained ministry building in the PC (United states of america). Of all the social justice issues swimming around the campus of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, the one that is minimally best-selling is the moral, economic, social, and religious crisis in State of israel/Palestine.
At present that I'yard at the Burke in a more official capacity, it makes the most sense for me to share with you all the wonderful resources that the Burke, the wider Columbia Academy Libraries network, and the city of New York have to offer regarding problems around the current conflict in State of israel and Palestine. For the final few months I have been conducting research in our collections, searching for anything relating to Israel and Palestine, current land rights in historic Palestine, apartheid in the Holy state, and walls and borders throughout history. I've been lucky enough to find a plethora of resources that I would like to share with the wider community:
From the circulating collections of the Burke Library:
Located on one of the New Book shelves, this piece of work echos many of the other works by Ateek. In Burke we also have Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation, and A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation both authored by Ateek.
Also held at Burke are several of the works written by Matrimony Theological Seminary NYC Doctor of Philosophy graduate Westward. Eugene March including: Israel and the Politics of State : A Theological Instance Study, God'southward Land on Loan: State of israel, Palestine, and the Globe, God'southward Tapestry: Reading the Bible in a World of Religious Diversity, likewise equally The Wide Broad Circle of Divine Love: A Biblical Case for Religious Diverseness.
In addition to these we besides hold several books by Mitri Raheb in the wider Columbia Libraries Network, including I Am A Palestinian Christian, Faith in the Faith of Empire, Bethlehem Besieged : Stories of Hope in Times of Problem, and the recently published The Cantankerous in Contexts : Suffering and Redemption in Palestine has been ordered and will be available at Burke once it arrives.
A few other resources within the Columbia University Libraries to draw your attending to:
Comprehending Christian Zionism: Perspectives in Comparison, 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 building, editor, 2011.
I would besides recommend:
What It Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood,Dina Mater, 2011.
Annihilation by Ilan Pappe.
Israel/Palestine-related events are happening throughout New York. To highlight one which just closed at the end of Feb, please run into data on traveling showroom of Bethlehem Beyond the Wall up 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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