A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine

A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine offers a comprehensive, evidence-based history of Palestine with a critical use of recent historical, archaeological and anthropological methods.

Ingrid Hjelm is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Copenhagen

and former Director of the Palestine History and Heritage Project

(PaHH) (2014–17). She is author of The Samaritans and Early Judaism

(2000) and Jerusalem’s Rise to Sovereignty (2004), and, with K. Whitelam,

T.L. Thompson, N.P. Lemche and Z. Muna, New Information about the

History of Ancient Palestine (Arabic; 2004); with A.K. de Hemmer Gudme

(eds.), Myths of Exil e (2015); and, with T.L. Thompson (eds.), Changing Perspectives

6 and 7 (2016).

Hamdan Taha is Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at Al Istiqlal University,

Palestine, former Deputy Minister for Heritage (2012–2014) and the

Director General of the then newly established Department of Antiquities

in Palestine (1994–2012). He has directed several excavations and restoration

projects, and co-directed the joint expeditions at Tell el-Sultan, Khirbet

Bal’ama, Tell el-Mafjar, Kh. el-Mafjar and Tell Balata. He worked also as a

national coordinator of the World Heritage Program in Palestine. He is the

author of many books, field reports and scholarly articles.

Ilan Pappe is Professor of History at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies,

and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University

of Exeter. He is author of numerous books on Palestine and the modern

state of Israel, including A History of Modern Palestine (2004), The Ethnic

Cleansing of Palestine (2006), The Forgotten Palestinians (2011), The Idea of

Israel (2014) and The Biggest Prison on Earth (2017).

Thomas L. Thompson, Professor Emeritus, worked at the University of Copenhagen

from 1993 to 2009. He was Research Fellow for the Tubinger Atlas

des vorderen Orients from 1969 to 1976. He has produced more than twenty

books, five of which have been translated into Arabic, and 170 lesser works

related to the history of Palestine and biblical literature, the best known of

which are The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), The Settlement

of Palestine in the Bronze Age (1979), The Early History of the Israelite People

(1992), The Bible in History (1999), The Messiah Myth (2005) and Biblical

Narrative and Palestine’s History (2013).