Philip R. Davies

In Search of 'Ancient Israel' (eBook, ePUB)

A Study in Biblical Origins

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The appearance of In Search of 'Ancient Israel' generated a still-raging controversy about the historical reality of what biblical scholars call 'Ancient Israel'. But its argument not only takes in the problematic relationship between Iron Age Palestinian archaeology and the biblical 'Israel' but also outlines the processes that created the literature of the Hebrew bible-the ideological matrix, the scribal milieu, and the cultural adoption of a national literary archive as religious scripture as part of the process of creating 'Judaisms'. As such, in this volume Philip R. Davies challenges the whole spectrum of scholarly consensus about the origins of 'Israel' and its scriptures, in a manner that is both learned and accessible. For this new edition Davies has provided a new extended introduction, in which he considers how the debate has raged since the book was first published, and in which he repositions this classic work within the present scholarly context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567662996
• Artikelnr.: 43417570

Autorenporträt

Philip R. Davies is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to Third Edition Preface to Second Edition Acknowledgements
Abbreviations Reflective Introduction Ch. 1 Preliminaries Ch. 2 Searching
for 'Ancient Israel' Ch. 3 Defining the Biblical Israel Ch. 4 A Search for
Historical Israel Ch. 5 The Social Context of the Biblical Israel Ch. 6 Who
Wrote the Biblical Literature, and Where? Ch. 7 How was the Biblical
Literature Written, and Why? Ch. 8 From Literature to Scripture Ch. 9 The
Emergence of Israel Bibliography of Works Cited Index of References Index
of Authors