- 352 pages
- English
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About this book
Modern biblical scholarship's commitment to the historical-critical method in its efforts to write a history of Israel has created the central and unavoidable problem of writing an objective and critical history of Palestine through the biblical literature with the methods of Biblical Archaeology. 'Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History' brings together key essays on historical method and the archaeology and history of Palestine. The essays employ comparative and formalistic techniques to illuminate the allegorical and mythical in Old Testament narrative traditions from Genesis to Nehemiah. In so doing, the volume presents a detailed review of central and radical changes in both our understanding of biblical traditions and the archaeology and history of Palestine. The study offers an analysis of Biblical narrative as rooted in ancient Near Eastern literature since the Bronze Age.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Joseph and Moses narratives 4: narratives about the origins of Israel
- 2. Historical notes on Israel's conquest of Palestine: a peasants' rebellion
- 3. The background of the patriarchs: a reply to William Dever and Malcolm Clark
- 4. Conflict themes in the Jacob narratives
- 5. History and tradition: a response to J. B. Geyer
- 6. Text, context, and referent in Israelite historiography
- 7. Palestinian pastoralism and Israel's origins
- 8. The intellectual matrix of early biblical narrative: inclusive monotheism in Persian period Palestine
- 9. How Yahweh became God: Exodus 3 and 6 and the heart of the Pentateuch
- 10. 4QTestimonia and Bible composition: a Copenhagen Lego hypothesis
- 11. Why talk about the past? The Bible, epic and historiography
- 12. Historiography in the Pentateuch: twenty-five years after Historicity
- 13. The messiah epithet in the Hebrew Bible
- 14. Kingship and the wrath of God: or teaching humility
- 15. From the mouth of babes, strength: Psalm 8 and the Book of Isaiah
- 16. Job 29: biography or parable?
- 17. Mesha and questions of historicity
- 18. Imago dei: a problem in the discourse of the Pentateuch
- 19. Changing perspectives on the history of Palestine
- Index of biblical references
- Index of authors