Title: A brave attempt
Product review: This is a brave attempt to construct a praxis of a Liberation Theology for Christian Palestinians. Unfortunately brave and attempt is all it is. The theology falls down because Ateek's exegesis is at best simplistic. While Ateek criticises 'Jews' for their exegesis, he uses only First Testament examples and not particularly well at that. I would have liked to see Ateek use, for example, one of the birth narratives as his base Biblical study.Ateek confuses with his seemingly interchangaeable use of 'Zionist' and 'Jew'. The book lacks the rigour of Gutierrez Sobrino and Boek, and adds little to the litertaure of Liberation Theology. He should be credited though, with raising the profile of Palestinian Christians, a small and often forgotten minority.
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