Classic essays in biblical history /
This volume brings together essays by leading scholars from North America, Europe, and Israel who have drawn on literary analysis of the biblical text as well as archaeology, anthropology, and sociology to make significant contributions to our understanding of the history and religion of ancient Isr...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- note: pt. I Methodology
- 1 "Introduction" and "The Theocracy as Idea and as Institution" / Julius Wellhausen
- 2. "Knowing about the History of Israel" / Tremper Longman
- 3. "On the Problems of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic Israelite (Palestinian) History" / Niels P. Lemche
- pt. II Patriarchal Period
- 4. "The God of the Fathers" / Frank Moore Cross, Jr.
- 5. "The Historical Background of the Book of Genesis" / Benjamin Mazar
- pt. III Exodus
- 6. "The Oppression," "The Exodus from Egypt: The Biblical Traditions," "The Historical Interpretation," and "The Date of the Exodus" / Roland deVaux
- 7. "An Egyptological Perspective on the Exodus Narrative" / Donald B. Redford
- pt. IV Conquest and Settlement
- 8. "The Israelite Conquest of Canaan in the Light of Archaeology" / William F. Albright
- 9. "The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine" / George E. Mendenhall
- 10. "The Occupation of the Land by the Tribes of Israel" and "The Twelve-tribe System" / Martin Noth
- 11. "The Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel" / Lawrence E. Stager
- pt. V United Monarchy
- 12. "Traditional Institutions and the Monarchy: Social and Political Tensions in the Time of David and Solomon" / Hayim Tadmor
- 13. "The Spade and the Text: The Interaction between Archaeology and Israelite History Relating to the Tenth-Ninth Centuries BCE" / Amihai Mazar
- 14. "The Vanishing Solomon: The Disappearance of the United Monarchy from Recent Histories of Ancient Israel" / Gary N. Knoppers
- pt. VI Divided Monarchy
- 15. "The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah: Political and Economic Centralization in the Iron IIA-B (ca. 1000-750 BCE)" / John S. Holladay, Jr.
- 16. "Judah Under Assyrian Hegemony: A Reexamination of Imperialism and Religion" / Mordechai Cogan
- 17. "The `Discovered Book' and the Legitimation of Josiah's Reform" / Nadav Na'aman
- pt. VII Exile
- 18. "Archaeology and the Fall of Judah" / William G. Dever
- 19. "Observations on the Israelite/Judean Exiles in Mesopotamia during the Eighth-Sixth Centuries BCE" / Bustenay Oded
- 20. "On the History and Archaeology of Judah during the Exilic Period, A Reminder" / Hans M. Barstad
- pt. VIII Restoration
- 21. "The Edict of Cyrus in Ezra 1" / Elias J. Bickerman
- 22. "People and Land in the Restoration Period" / Sara Japhet
- pt. IX Religion
- 23. "The Common Theology of the Ancient Near East" / Morton Smith
- 24. "The Bible and Mythological Polytheism" / Yehezkel Kaufmann
- 25. "Asherah and Abundance" / Tikva Frymer-Kensky
- 26. "Family Religion in Ancient Israel and its Surroundings" / Rainer Albertz
- 27. "Early Israelite Prophecy" / Robert Wilson.