The Bible & Empire: Pastor Mitri Raheb on the Israeli Occupation
Pastor Mitri Raheb’s new book “Faith in the Face of Empire” is the latest in a line of texts by Palestinian Christians to challenge assumptions about Israel's moral purity.
by Graham Liddell
Statements like “Jesus was a Palestinian” and “Israel belongs to the empire” might earn you a fair share of grimaces and retorts at church gatherings across the United States. But the first statement is the assumption and the second is the thesis of Mitri Raheb’s new book Faith in the Face of Empire.
