A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine

Ingrid Hjelm is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Copenhagenand 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 theHistory of Ancient Palestine (Arabic; 2004); with A.K. de Hemmer Gudme(eds.), Myths of Exile (2015); and, with T.L. Thompson (eds.), Changing Perspectives6 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 theDirector General of the then newly established Department of Antiquitiesin Palestine (1994-2012). He has directed several excavations and restorationprojects, and co-directed the joint expeditions at Tell el-Sultan, KhirbetBal'ama, Tell el-Mafjar, Kh. el-Mafjar and Tell Balata. He worked also as anational coordinator of the World Heritage Program in Palestine. He is theauthor 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 Universityof Exeter. He is author of numerous books on Palestine and the modernstate of Israel, including A History of Modern Palestine (2004), The EthnicCleansing of Palestine (2006), The Forgotten Palestinians (2011), The Idea ofIsrael (2014) and The Biggest Prison on Earth (2017).Thomas L. Thompson, Professor Emeritus, worked at the University of Copenhagenfrom 1993 to 2009. He was Research Fellow for the Tubinger Atlasdes vorderen Orients from 1969 to 1976. He has produced more than twentybooks, five of which have been translated into Arabic, and 170 lesser worksrelated to the history of Palestine and biblical literature, the best known ofwhich are The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), The Settlementof Palestine in the Bronze Age (1979), The Early History of the Israelite People(1992), The Bible in History (1999), The Messiah Myth (2005) and BiblicalNarrative and Palestine's History (2013).