Controversy
Founding member of the context group Bruce J. Malina has come under criticism for his views on the Israel/Palestine conflict and how it has influenced his scholarship. While on the one hand, he takes a firm stance against the modern state of Israel, going as far as to deny the Semitic ancestry of modern Israelis, on the other hand, Malina often ends up buying into Zionist discourses on the meaning of the term ‘Jew’ or ‘Judean’ (hoi ioudaioi), arguing that it refers to 'the land'.
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