The History of Zionism and the Nakba with Yousef AlKhouri (Podcast)

John Anthony Dunne

In this episode we’re beginning a short series on Palestinian Liberation Theology, starting with a discussion on Zionism and the Nakba with Yousef AlKhouri, who is a Christian Arab Palestinian residing in Bethlehem, Palestine, where he is a lecturer in Biblical Studies and Mission at Bethlehem Bible College, and he is currently working on his doctorate in contextual interpretation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Over the course of our conversation, Yousef provides helpful historical context for Zionism and the traumatic experience of the Nakba, when Palestinians were forcefully displaced from their homes. As he articulates this, he shares many gut-wrenching stories of his personal and familial experiences of occupation, and also conveys his heart for constructive theological reflection on the contested issue of the land.

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John Anthony Dunne
John Anthony Dunne
John holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews, where he studied under Professor N. T. Wright. He currently serves as Associate Professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN).

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2 responses to “The History of Zionism and the Nakba with Yousef AlKhouri (Podcast)”

  1. Jennifer Hughes

    Thank you for the recent episode about Zionism. I appreciate the Palestinian Christian perspective. I just returned from a trip to Israel where our guide was a brillInt secular Jewish Zionist and our bus driver was a cheerful but quiet Palestinian Christian. They got along well and were very professional, but we suspected we were only hearing one perspective. Can you please
    provide the title of the book about the land and Biblical perspective by the speaker’s Bethlehem college colleague – I could t catch it. Thank you.

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    1. Brandon Hurlbert
      Brandon Hurlbert

      Thanks for listening Jennifer! The book Yousef mentioned was “From Land to Lands, from Eden to the Renewed Earth: A Christ-Centred Biblical Theology of the Promised Land” by Munther Isaac. There will be many more book mentioned in the series, but we plan to release a bibliography at the end of it.

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