Classic Essays in Biblical History

Herausgeber: Greenspahn, Frederick E; Machinist, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Israel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 606
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1048g
• ISBN-13: 9781409429166
• ISBN-10: 1409429164
• Artikelnr.: 56897103

Autorenporträt

Frederick E. Greenspahn is Gimelstob Eminent Scholar of Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University, USA. Peter Machinist is Hancock Research Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Methodology
1. Julius Wellhausen, "Introduction" and "The Theocracy as Idea and as
Institution" (chapter 11) of his Prolegomena to the History of Ancient
Israel (New York: Meridian Books, 1957) pp. 1-13 and 411-25.
2. Iain W. Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman III, "Knowing about
the History of Israel," from their A Biblical History of Israel
(Westminster John Knox, 2003), chapter 3, pp. 51-74 and 311-19.
3. Niels P. Lemche, "On the Problem of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic
Israelite (Palestinian) History," in Lester Grabbe, ed., "Like a Bird in a
Cage" (JSOT Supplement 363; London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003) pp.
150-67 = Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 3/1 (2000).
Part II. Patriarchal Period
4. Frank Moore Cross, Jr., "The God of the Fathers" in his Canaanite Myth
and
Hebrew Epic (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973), pp. 3-12.
5. Benjamin Mazar, "The Historical Background of the Book of Genesis,"
Journal
of Near Eastern Studies 28 (1969) 73-83.
Part III. Exodus
6. Roland deVaux, "The Oppression," "The Exodus from Egypt: The Biblical
Traditions," "The Historical Interpretation," and "The Date of the Exodus"
in his Early History of Israel (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978) pp.
324-27, 370-76, and 388-92.
7. Donald B. Redford, "An Egyptological Perspective on the Exodus
Narrative"
in Egypt, Israel, Sinai, Archaeological and Historical Relationships in
the Biblical Period, ed. Anson F. Rainey (Tel Aviv University, 1987)
pp. 137-61.
Part IV. Conquest and Settlement
8. William F. Albright, "The Israelite Conquest of Canaan in the Light of
Archaeology," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 74
(April, 1939) 11-23.
9. George E. Mendenhall, "The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine," Biblical
Archaeologist 25 (1962) 65-87.
10. Martin Noth, "The Occupation of the Land by the Tribes of Israel" and
"The
Twelve-tribe System" in his The History of Israel, 2nd ed. (New York:
Harper & Row, 1958) pp. 68-97.
11. Lawrence E. Stager, "The Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel,"
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 260 (1985) 1-35.
Part V. United Monarchy
12. Hayim Tadmor, "Traditional Institutions and the Monarchy: Social and
Political Tensions in the Time of David and Solomon," in Studies in the
Period of David and Solomon, ed. Tomoo Ishida (Tokyo/Eisenbrauns, 1982) pp.
239-57.
13. Amihai Mazar, "The Spade and the Text: The Interaction between
Archaeology
and Israelite History Relating to the Tenth-Ninth Centuries BCE" in
Understanding the History of Ancient Israel, ed. H.G.M. Williamson
(Proceedings of the British Academy 143; Oxford, 2007) pp. 143-171.
14. Gary N. Knoppers, "The Vanishing Solomon: The Disappearance of the
United
Monarchy from Recent Histories of Ancient Israel," Journal of Biblical
Literature 116 (1997) 19-44.
Part VI. Divided Monarchy
15. John S. Holladay, Jr., "The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah: Political and
Economic Centralization in the Iron IIA-B (ca. 1000-750 BCE)" in The
Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land, ed. Thomas E. Levy (London:
Leicester University Press, 1998) pp. 368-98 and 586-90.
16. Mordechai Cogan, "Judah Under Assyrian Hegemony: A Re-examination of
Imperialism and Religion," Journal of Biblical Literature 112 (1993)
403-14.
17. Nadav Na'aman, "The Discovered Book and the Legitimation of Josiah¹s
Reform," Journal of Biblical Literature 130 (2011) 47-62.
Part VII. Exile
18. William G. Dever, "Archaeology and the Fall of Judah" in Eretz-Israel
29
(Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2009) pp. 29*-35*.
19. Bustenay Oded, "Observations on the Israelite/Judean Exiles in
Mesopotamia
during the Eighth-Sixth Centuries BCE" in Immigration and Emigration Within
the Ancient Near East: Festschrift E. Lipinski, ed. K. van Lerberghe and A.
Schoors (OLA; Leuven: Peeters, 1995) pp. 205-12.
20. Hans M. Barstad, "On the History and Archaeology of Judah during the
Exilic Period, A Reminder," Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 19 (1988)
25-36.
Part VIII. Restoration
21. Elias J. Bickerman, "The Edict of Cyrus in Ezra 1," Journal of Biblical
Literature 65 (1946) 249-75.
22. Sara Japhet, "People and Land in the Restoration Period" in her From
the
Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah, Collected Studies on the
Restoration Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006) pp. 96-116.
Part IX. Religion
23. Morton Smith, "The Common Theology of the Ancient Near East," Journal
of
Biblical Literature 71 (1952) 135-48.
24. Yehezkel Kaufmann, "The Bible and Mythological Polytheism," Journal of
Biblical Literature 70 (1951) 179-97.
25. Tikva Frymer-Kensky, "Asherah and Abundance," chapter 13 of her In the
Wake of the Goddesses, Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of
Pagan Myth (New York: Free Press, 1992) pp. 153-61 and 264-66.
26. Rainer Albertz, "Family Religion in Ancient Israel and Its
Surroundings"
in Household and Family Religion in Antiquity, ed. John Bodel and Saul
Olyan (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008) pp. 89-112.
27. Robert Wilson, "Early Israelite Prophecy," Interpretation 32 (1978)
3-16.
Index