Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 289 pages)
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ISBN:
9780567686589
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9780567686572
Series Statement:
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies 680
Content:
"This volume collects essays from an international body of leading scholars in Old Testament studies, focused upon the key concepts of the question of historicity of biblical stories, the archaeology of Israel/Palestine during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the nature of biblical narratives and related literature"--
Content:
PART 1: METHOD -- 1. The City of David as a Palimpsest, Margreet Steiner -- 2. Living in the Past? Keeping Up-To-Date in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Raz Kletter -- 3. What People Want to Believe: Or Fighting Against Cultural Memory, Niels Peter Lemche -- 4. The Need for a Comprehensive Sociology of Knowledge of Biblical and Archaeological Studies of the Southern Levant, Emanuel Pfoh -- PART 2: HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGY -- 5. The Abraham and Esau-Jacob Stories in the Context of the Maccabean Period, Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spanò -- 6. Tell Balata (Shechem): An Archaeological and Historical Reassessment, Hamdan Taha and Gerrit van der Kooij -- 7. 'Solomon' (Shalmaneser III) and the Emergence of Judah as an Independent Kingdom, Russell Gmirkin -- 8. On the Pre-Exilic Gap between Israel and Judah, Étienne Nodet -- 9. Perceptions of Israel's Past in Qumran Writings: Between Myth and Historiography, Jesper Høgenhaven -- 10. Is Josephus's John the Baptist Passage a Chronologically Dislocated Story of the Death of Hyrcanus II?, Greg Doudna -- 11. Thompson's Jesus: Staring Down the Wishing Well, Jim West -- 12. The Qur'an as Biblical Rewriting, Mogens Müller -- PART 3: BIBLICAL NARRATIVES -- 13. The Food of Life and the Food of Death in Texts from the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East, Ingrid Hjelm -- 14. A Gate in Gaza: An Essay on the Reception of Tall Tales, Jack M. Sasson -- 15. Deborah's Topical Song: Remarks on the Gattung of Judges 5, Bob Becking -- 16. How Jerusalem's Temple Was Aligned to Moses' Tabernacle: About the Historical Power of an Invented Myth, Rainer Albertz -- 17. Can the Book of Nehemiah Be Used as an Historical Source, and If So, of What? Lisbeth S. Fried -- 18. Chronicles' Reshaping of Memories of Ancestors Populating Genesis, Ehud Ben Zvi -- 19. The Book of Proverbs and Hesiod's Works and Days, Philippe Wajdenbaum -- 20. The Villain 'Samaritan': The Samiri as the Other Moses in Qur'anic Exegesis, Joshua Sabih.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780567686565
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Biblical narratives, archaeology, and historicity London : T&T Clark, 2020 ISBN 9780567686565
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Bibel Altes Testament
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Biblische Archäologie
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Festschrift
DOI:
10.5040/9780567686589
Author information:
Niesiołowski-Spanò, Łukasz 1971-
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