Critical Issues in Early Israelite History
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Critical Issues in Early Israelite History

  1. 352 pages
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Critical Issues in Early Israelite History

About this book

The origin of the Israelites is one of the most frequently discussed issues among archaeologists and biblical scholars. Only a few decades ago, biblical stories such as the Conquest were heralded as confirmed by archaeology. But in the 1970s, Thomas L. Thompson and John Van Seters were in the vanguard of a movement among scholars that was intent on reassessing the historical reliability of the biblical narratives. This reassessment gained momentum during the 1980s and 1990s; today, the mainstream opinion is that there was no Conquest, and the Israelites, if they can be identified as a national entity or as a people, did not arrive in Canaan by means of a military conquest.

For three days in March 2004, a group of scholars met to consider the state of the question and to provide a response to the predominant academic skepticism, a response that considers the biblical text to be an important datum in the construction of the history of the people of Israel. To do so, the authors of the papers read at the conference take into account both biblical and extrabiblical literary evidence, as well as the contributions of archaeology, to describe as completely as possible what may be known about the early history of Israel. Critical Issues in Early Israelite History publishes the papers read at this conference in the hope that the result will be a balanced portrayal of this watershed event based on all of the currently available evidence.

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Yes, you can access Critical Issues in Early Israelite History by Richard S. Hess,Gerald A. Klingbeil,Paul J. Ray Jr.,Paul J. Ray Jr in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Ancient History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781575068046, 9781575068046
eBook ISBN
9781575065984
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: The Rhetorical Structuring of the Joshua Conquest Narratives
  6. Chapter 2: The Jericho and Ai ofthe Book of Joshua
  7. Chapter 3: Merenptah’s Reference to Israel:Critical Issues for the Origin of Israel
  8. Chapter 4: The Persian Period and the Origins of Israel: Beyond the “Myths”
  9. Chapter 5: Classical Models for the Appearance of Israel in Palestine
  10. Chapter 6: The Appearance of Israel in Canaan in Recent Scholarship
  11. Chapter 7: “Between North and South”:The Archaeology of Religion in Late Bronze Age Palestine and the Period of the Settlement
  12. Chapter 8: The Context of Early Israel Viewed through the Archaeology of Northern Mesopotamia and Syria
  13. Chapter 9: The Survey of Manasseh and the Origin ofthe Central Hill Country Settlers
  14. Chapter 10: Israelite Settlement at the Margins of the Northern Hill Country:Connections to Joshua and Judgesfrom Tell Dothan
  15. Chapter 11: Rewriting Philistine History:Recent Trends in Philistine Archaeologyand Biblical Studies
  16. Chapter 12: The Search for Joshua’s Ai
  17. Index