The Land in Israeli education has no secular history beyond the Bible
Evidence
The national-theological perception begot a mythical perception of “The Land,” regarded as the national motherland; “The Land” had no history outside its place in the Jewish-Christian theological myth and accordingly was imagined as the land of the Bible as depicted in conventional Orientalist imagery. Therefore, in Israel today, the history of Palestine since the Second Temple is absent from school curricula, both “secular” and “religious.” There is no “secular” history of the land, the history of its various inhabitants, communities, and rulers. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 355
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Suppressing messianism produced a secular national theology that erased the land’s non-Jewish history; Zionist secularization nationalized messianic myth rather than replacing it — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 315; The narrative of progress from religious to secular is now untenable — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 17 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism
#corroborates(0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 435 - Suppressing messianism produced a secular national theology that erased the land’s non-Jewish history
#corroborates(0.80) - Zionist secularization nationalized messianic myth rather than replacing it
#corroborates(0.78) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 315 - The narrative of progress from religious to secular is now untenable
#complicates(0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 17 - Religious education in schools marked a retreat from educating citizens
#expands(0.75)