Research Catalog

Title

Historical knowledge in biblical antiquity / edited by Jacob Neusner, Bruce D. Chilton, William Scott Green.

Publication

Blandford Forum : Deo Pub., c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016
• Chilton, Bruce
• Green, William Scott.

Description

xiv, 433 p. : some ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Bible > Antiquities
• Bible > Evidences, authority, etc
• Bible > History of contemporary events
• Bible > Historiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The task of history for ancient Israel / Bruce Chilton -- Does history matter? Meaning-making and the first two Greek historians / Carolyn Dewald -- Are the Dead Sea scrolls historical texts? / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- History-writing in, and on the basis of, the Jewish apocalyptic literature / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Encountering the past through the works of Flavius Josephus / Steve Mason -- The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism: what kinds of questions did the ancient rabbis answer? / Jacob Neusner -- Interpreting legal history in the Mishnaic division of agriculture / Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Archaeology and history: what archaeology can show about ethnic and religious regions in ancient Galilee / Mordechai Aviam (with William Scott Green) -- In search of Jesus: issues of character / Bruce Chilton -- Paul's thought and life / Bruce Chilton -- James, Jesus' brother, and history / Bruce Chilton -- Mary Magdalene and history / Bruce Chilton -- Paul and Gamaliel / Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner -- Historical questions and questioning history: can we write a history of Judaism in late antiquity? / Gary G. Porton -- Different ways of looking at truth / William Scott Green.

ISBN

• 9781905679003 (pbk.)
• 1905679009 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 86165925
• SCSB-12379223

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library