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Understanding the history of ancient Israel

Title: Understanding the history of ancient Israel / edited by H.G.M. Williamson.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Williamson, H. G. M. (Hugh Godfrey Maturin), 1947-

Description

xx, 432 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

In recent years the study of the history of ancient Israel has become very heated. On the one hand there are those who continue to use the Bible as a primary source, modified and illustrated by the findings of archaeology, and on the other there are some who believe that primacy should be given to archaeology and that the Biblical account is then seen to be for the most part completely unreliable in historical terms. This volume contributes to this debate by inquiring into the appropriate methods for combining different sorts of evidence--archaeological, epigraphical, iconographical, as well as Biblical. It also seeks to learn from related historical disciplines such as classical antiquity and early Islamic history, where similar problems are faced. --From publisher's description.

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 143

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 143.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Aufsatzsammlung.
History (form)

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Setting the scene : a brief outline of histories of Israel / J.W. Rogerson -- Setting the scene : a response to John Rogerson / Keith W. Whitelam -- The history of ancient Israel : what directions should we take? / Hans M. Barstad -- Biblical Israel in the ninth century? / Philip R. Davies -- Some recent issues in the study of the history of Israel / Lester L. Grabbe -- Classical history : a sketch, with three artifacts / T.P. Wiseman -- Early Islamic history : parallels and problems / Chase F. Robinson -- Ancient Near Eastern history : the case of Cyrus the Great of Persia / Amélie Kuhrt -- Archaeology of the Biblical period : on some questions of methodology and chronology of the Iron Age / David Ussishkin -- The spade and the text : the interaction between archaeology and Israelite history relating to the tenth-ninth centures BCE / Amihai Mazar -- Neither eyewitnesses, nor windows to the past, but valuable testimony in its own right / Christoph Uehlinger -- Akkadian sources of the ninth century / M.J. Geller -- Neo-Assyrian and Israelite history in the ninth century : the role of Shalmaneser III / K. Lawson Younger, Jr. -- West Semitic inscriptions and ninth century BCE ancient Israel / André Lemaire -- Method in the application of Biblical source material to historical writing (with particular reference to the ninth century BCE) / Marc Zvi Brettler -- Reading Kings on the divided monarchy : what sort of narrative? / Graeme Auld -- Social history of ancient Israel / Rainer Albertz -- Law in the ninth century : Jehoshapat's "judicial reform" / Bernard S. Jackson -- The Northern Kingdom in the late tenth-ninth centuries BCE / Nadav Naʼaman.

ISBN

9780197264010
0197264018

LCCN

2008295039

OCLC

ocm84150731
84150731
SCSB-1455075

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library