Understanding the History of Ancient Israel

Name: Understanding the History of Ancient Israel
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ISBN: 9780197264010

ISBN-10: 0197264018

ISBN-13: 9780197264010

Edition: 2007

Authors: H. G. M. Williamson

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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 makes a fresh contribution 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…

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List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/15/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 380
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


Notes on Contributors


Preface


List of Abbreviations



Orientation



Setting the Scene: A Brief Outline of Histories of Israel




Setting the Scene: A Response to John Rogerson




The History of Ancient Israel: What Directions Should We Take?




Biblical Israel in the Ninth Century?




Some Recent Issues in the Study of the History of Israel




Comparative Perspectives



Classical History: A Sketch, with Three Artifacts




Early Islamic History: Parallels and Problems




Ancient Near Eastern History: The Case of Cyrus the Great of Persia




Sources and Methods



Archaeology of the Biblical Period: On Some Questions of Methodology and Chronology of the Iron Age




The Spade and the Text: The Interaction between Archaeology and Israelite History Relating to the Tenth-Ninth Centuries BCE




Neither Eyewitnesses, nor Windows to the Past, but Valuable Testimony in its own Right




Akkadian Sources of the Ninth Century




Neo-Assyrian and Israelite History in the Ninth Century: The Role of Shalmaneser III




West Semitic Inscriptions and Ninth-Century BCE Ancient Israel




Method in the Application of Biblical Source Material to Historical Writing (with Particular Reference to the Ninth Century BCE)




Reading Kings on the Divided Monarchy: What Sort of Narrative?




Synthesis



Social History of Ancient Israel




Law in the Ninth Century: Jehoshaphat's 'Judicial Reform'




The Northern Kingdom in the Late Tenth-Ninth Centuries BCE



Index