History, Archaeology and the Bible Forty Years After Historicity: Changing Perspectives 6

ISBN-13: 9780367873103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

Ingrid Hjelm; Thomas L. Thompson

Opis

This volume examines the major changes that have taken place within the field of Old Testament studies since the 1970s, presentings new articles from some of the field’s best scholars with comprehensive discussion of historical, archaeological, anthropological, cultural and literary approaches to the Hebrew Bible and Palestine’s history. They qu

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Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Ingrid Hjelm and Thomas L. Thompson

PART I

Changing Perspectives in Biblical Studies

1 Old and New in Scandinavian Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible

Douglas A. Knight

2 Myth and History: reflections on the relationship between biblical history and history of Israel

Reinhard Kratz

3 Out of the wilderness? Some suggestions for the future of Pentateuchal research Thomas M. Bolin

4 The Contemporary Debate over Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts

Martin Ehrensvärd

PART II

Archaeology, History and Cult

5 From Jerusalem with Love

Margreet L. Steiner

6 Gender Marking, Overlapping and the Identity of the Bes-Like figures at Kuntillet ’Ajrud

Brian B. Schmidt

7 Lost and Found? A non-Jewish Israel from the Merneptah Stele to the Byzantine period

Ingrid Hjelm

8 Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the Jews: a reassessment

Lukasz Niesiolowski- Spanò

　

　

　

PART III

Ideology and history

9 From the Search for Ancient Israel to the History of Ancient Palestine

Emanuel Pfoh

10 Ethnicity and a Regional History of Palestine

Thomas L. Thompson

11 "The Destruction that can be studied": Israeli archaeology and the deserted villages

Raz Kletter and Gideon Sulimani

12 The Bible in the Service of Zionism: "We do not believe in God, but he nonetheless promised us Palestine"

Ilan Pappe

13 Arab Scholars’ Contribution

O autorze

Ingrid Hjelm is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Director of the Palestine History and Heritage Project. She is the author of The Samaritans and Early Judaism (2000) and Jerusalem’s Rise to Sovereignty (2004) in addition to a considerable number of articles within the field of Samaritan studies, the history of ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. Her latest book, co-edited with Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme is Myths of Exile (2015).

Thomas L. Thompson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Copenhagen and author of some 130 articles and ca. 20 books, including The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), The Early History of the Israelite People (1992), The Bible in History: How Writers Create a Past (1999) and Biblical Narrative and Palestine’s History (2013), currently working as Project Developer on the Palestine History and Heritage Project.