
EI Weekly Listen—Fantasy in Middle Eastern nation-making by Nathan Shachar
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Zionism and Judaism
In 19 28, a farmer near the syrian town of latacia stumbled on some old tablets. The tip of an enormous cunae form library from the canaanite city state of ugarit were deciphered by some young russian jews in paris. They were shocked to discover that much of the hebrew bible was already there. All of what was supposed to have been handed by god to moses around the year 12 50 was already long buried in the ground of syria. A whole new view of the ancient world opened up and suggested a new identity myth for the jews. Monotheism, argued these young intellectuals in paris, had been forced upon
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