Applies the work of Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Edward Said and several others on international politics and the supportive role of the media, intellectuals and academics to contemporary Christian origins and New Testament scholarship.
New Testament and Christian origins scholarship have historically been influenced by their political and social context. ''Jesus in an Age of Terror'' applies the work of critical and media theorists to contemporary Christian origins and New Testament scholarship. Part one examines the influence of the mass media on the writing of contemporary biblical scholars, whose political views - as demonstrated in their ''biblio-blogging'' - are shown to have striking similarity to the media s depiction of the ''war on terror'' and conflict in the Middle East. Part two argues that the Anglo-American cultural mis-representation of Islam as the ''great enemy'' has led New Testament and Christian origins scholarship to collude with intellectual defences of the war in Iraq. Part three examines the influence of the media''s approach to Palestine and Israel on biblical studies, exploring the shift towards widespread support for Israel in contemporary scholarship.
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