Throughout the history of European imperialism the grand narratives of the Bible have been used to justify settler-colonialism. 'The Zionist Bible' explores the ways in which modern political Zionism and Israeli militarism have used the Bible - notably the Book of Joshua and its description of the entry of the Israelites into the Promised Land - as an agent of oppression and to support settler-colonialism in Palestine. The rise of messianic Zionism in the late 1960s saw the beginnings of a Jewis