Research Catalog

Title

The Israelites in history and tradition / Niels Peter Lemche.

Author

Lemche, Niels Peter.

Publication

London : SPCK ; Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

ix, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

In this volume in the Library of Ancient Israel, Niels Peter Lemche focuses on the way Israelites understood themselves at different points in history - before, within, and after the monarchy. Lemche discusses references to the people and their leaders in other ancient Near Eastern texts and examines the Israelites self-understanding or behavior as a distinct people throughout their history.

Series Statement

Library of ancient Israel

Uniform Title

Library of ancient Israel

Subject

• Bible. > Historiography
• Bible
• Bible > Historiography
• To 586 B.C
• Jews > History > To 586 B.C. > Sources
• Jews > History > Historiography. > To 586 B.C
• 15.75 history of Asia
• 11.42 history of Old Testament times
• Historiography
• Jews
• Jews > Historiography
• Geschichtsschreibung
• Israeliten
• Joden
• Geschiedschrijving
• Oudheid
• Oude Testament
• Jews > History > 1200 B.C.-586 B.C
• Israel Altertum
• Eretz Israel > History > Historiography. > To 586 B.C
• Israeliten

Genre/Form

• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and indexes.

Contents

Prolegomena: Inventing the Past. Ancient Israel -- Ethnicity, Nation, and History as the Mode of Interpreting Ancient Cultures -- 1. Playing the von Ranke Game: Sifting the Sources -- 2. Israel in Contemporary Historical Documents from the Ancient Near East -- 3. Archaeology and Israelite Ethnic Identity -- 4. The People of God: The Two Israels in the Old Testament -- 5. The Scholar's Israel: Hunting a Ghost Society.

ISBN

• 0664220754
• 9780664220754
• 0281052271
• 9780281052271

LCCN

98022300

OCLC

• ocm39180847
• 39180847
• SCSB-14415452

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library