Research Catalog

Title

Biblical narratives, archaeology, and historicity : essays in honour of Thomas L. Thompson / edited by Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spanò and Emanuel Pfoh.

Publication

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : T&T Clark, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Thompson, Thomas L., 1939-
• Niesiołowski-Spanò, Łukasz
• Pfoh, Emanuel

Description

xxxii, 289 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume collects essays from an international body of leading scholars in Old Testament studies, focused upon the key concepts of the question of historicity of biblical stories, the archaeology of Israel/Palestine during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the nature of biblical narratives and related literature.As a celebration of the extensive body of Thomas L. Thompson's work, these essays enable a threefold perspective on biblical narratives. Beginning with 'method', the contributors discuss archaeology, cultural memory, epistemology, and sociology of knowledge, before moving to 'history, historiography and archaeology' and close analysis of the Qumran Writings, Josephus and biblical rewritings. Finally the argument turn to the narratives themselves, exploring topics including the possibility of invented myth, the genre of Judges and the depiction of Moses in the Qu'ran. Presenting an interdisciplinary analysis of the historical issues concerning ancient Israel/Palestine, this volume creates an updated body of reference to fifty years' worth of scholarship.

Series Statement

• Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 680
• T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Uniform Title

• Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 680.
• T & T Clark library of biblical studies.

Subject

• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible
• Bibel
• Biblische Archäologie

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• "The publications of Thomas L. Thompson" (pages xxiii-xxxii).
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction / Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, Emanuel Pfoh -- The publications of Thomas L. Thompson -- Part 1. Method. The City of David as a palimpsest / Margreet L. Steiner -- Living in the past? Keeping up-to-date in ancient near eastern studies / Raz Kletter -- What people want to believe : or fighting against 'cultural memory' / Niels Peter Lemche -- The need for a comprehensive sociology of knowledge of biblical and archaeological studies in the Southern Levant / Emanuel Pfoh -- Part 2. History, historiography and archaeology. The Abraham and Esau-Jacob stories in the context of the Maccabean period / Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò -- Tell Balata (Shechem) : an archaeological and historical reassessment / Hamdan Taha, Gerrit van der Kooij -- 'Solomon' (Shalmaneser III) and the emergence of Judah as an independent kingdom / Russell Gmirkin -- On the pre-exilic gap between Israel and Judah / Étienne Nodet -- Perceptions of Israel's past in Qumran writings : between myth and historiography / Jesper Høgenhaven -- Is Josephus's John the Baptist passage a chronologically dislocated story of the death of Hyrcanus II? / Gregory L. Doudna -- Thompson's Jesus : staring down the wishing well / Jim West -- The Qur'an as biblical rewriting / Mogens Müller -- Part 3. Biblical narratives. The food of life and the food of death in texts from the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East / Ingrid Hjelm -- A gate in Gaza : an essay on the reception of tall tales / Jack M. Sasson -- Deborah's topical song : remarks on the Gattung of Judges 5 / Bob Becking -- How Jerusalem's temple was aligned to Moses' tabernacle : about the historical power of an invented myth / Rainer Albertz -- Can the book of Nehemiah be used as an historical source, and if so, of what? / Lisbeth S. Fried -- Chronicles' reshaping of memories of ancestors populating Genesis / Ehud Ben Zvi -- The book of Proverbs and Hesiod's Works and days / Philippe Wajdenbaum -- The villain 'Samaritan' : the Sāmirī as the other Moses in Qur'anic exegesis / Joshua Sabih.

Call Number

JFE 20-3314

ISBN

• 9780567686565
• 0567686566
• 9780567686572 (PDF) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019020065
• 40029640390

OCLC

1104858131

Title

Biblical narratives, archaeology, and historicity : essays in honour of Thomas L. Thompson / edited by Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spanò and Emanuel Pfoh.

Publisher

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : T&T Clark, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 680

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 680.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies.

Bibliography

"The publications of Thomas L. Thompson" (pages xxiii-xxxii).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Thompson, Thomas L., 1939- honouree.

Niesiołowski-Spanò, Łukasz, editor.

Pfoh, Emanuel, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Biblical narratives, archaeology, and historicity. 1 [edition]. New York : T&T Clark, 2019. 9780567686572 (DLC) 2019980421

Other Standard Identifier

40029640390

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3314