Essays on biblical historiography: from Jeroboam II to John Hyrcanus
Cover -- Title -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I: Overviews -- 1 History, Historicity and Historiography in Ancient Israel -- 2 The Appearance and Dissemination of Writing in Israel and Judah -- Part II: Pentateuch Traditions -- 3 Comments on the Hist...
| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I: Overviews -- 1 History, Historicity and Historiography in Ancient Israel -- 2 The Appearance and Dissemination of Writing in Israel and Judah -- Part II: Pentateuch Traditions -- 3 Comments on the Historical Background of the Abraham Narrative: Between "Realia" and "Exegetica" (with Thomas Römer) -- 4 Comments on the Historical Background of the Jacob Narrative in Genesis (with Thomas Römer) -- 5 The Wilderness Narrative and Itineraries and the Evolution of the Exodus Tradition -- 6 Early North Israelite "Memories" on Moab (with Thomas Römer) -- Part III: Rise of Ancient Israel -- 7 The Earliest Israel: Territorial History in the Highlands of Canaan -- 8 What the Biblical Authors Knew about Canaan before and in the Early Days of the Hebrew Kingdoms -- Part IV: Savior Stories in the Book of Judges -- 9 Historical-Geographical Observations on the Ehud-Eglon Tale -- 10 Compositional Phases, Geography and Historical Setting behind Judges 4-5 and the Location of Harosheth-ha-goiim -- 11 Geographical and Historical Observations on the Old North Israelite Gideon Tale (with Oded Lipschits) -- 12 The Old Jephthah Tale: Geographical and Historical Considerations -- 13 Comments on the Abimelech Story in Judges 9 -- 14 Major Saviors, Minor Judges: The Historical Background of the Northern Accounts in the Book of Judges -- Part V: Saul, Benjamin, Bethel -- 15 Saul, Benjamin, and the Emergence of "Biblical Israel": An Alternative View -- 16 Saul and Highlands of Benjamin Update: The Role of Jerusalem -- 17 Reevaluating Bethel (with Lily Singer-Avitz) -- Part VI: North Israelite Historiography -- 18 A Corpus of North Israelite Texts in the Days of Jeroboam II? -- 19 Was There an Early Northern (Israelite) Conquest Tradition?. |
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| ISBN: | 3161608542 |