Essays on Ancient Israel in Its Near Eastern Context

A Tribute to Nadav Na'aman

Yairah Amit, Ehud Ben Zvi, Israel Finkelstein, Oded Lipschits

• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN: 9781575065793
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

With this volume, Professor Na'aman's students and colleagues honor "one of the greatest historians of our time in the study of the biblical period" (from the Preface). Nadav Na'aman is Professor of Jewish History in the Biblical Period at Tel Aviv University (and has held the Kaplan Chair for the History of Egypt and Israel in Ancient Times since 2005). Over the past three decades, he has established a reputation for innovative and careful research in hundreds of memorable articles and monographs, many appearing in a recent three-volume set of his collected essays published by Eisenbrauns (Ancient Israel and Its Neighbors [2005]; Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E. [2005]; Ancient Israel's History and Historiography [2006]).

Reflecting the breadth and interconnectedness of Professor Na'aman's research areas, this volume contains contributions on archaeology, ancient Near East (other than ancient Israel), Israel's ancient history and historiography, and biblical studies. Contributors include: Yairah Amit, Moshe Anbar, Hans M. Barstad, Bob Becking, Amnon Ben-Tor, Ehud Ben Zvi, J. Blenkinsopp, Yoram Cohen and Itamar Singer, Philip R. Davies, Diana Edelman, I. Eph'al and H. Tadmor, Israel Finkelstein, Lester L. Grabbe, Sara Japhet, Gary N. Knoppers, Oded Lipschits, Amihai Mazar, Tryggve N. D. Mettinger, Tallay Ornan, Ronny Reich and Benjamin Sass, Miriam Tadmor, David Ussishkin, John Van Seters, H. G. M. Williamson, and Ran Zadok.

Table of contents

• COVER Front
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1: Looking at History through Literary Glasses Too
• Chapter 2: To Put One’s Neck under the Yoke
• Capter 3: Sic dicit dominus: Mari Prophetic Texts and the Hebrew Bible
• Chapter 4: The Return of the Deity:Iconic or Aniconic
• Chapter 5: Do the Execration Texts Reflect an Accurate Picture of the Contemporary Settlement Map of Palestine
• Chapter 6: Observations on Josiah’s Account in Chronicles and Implications for Reconstructing the Worldview of the Chronicler
• Chapter 7: Hezekiah and the Babylonian Delegation: A Critical Reading of Isaiah 39:1–8
• Chapter 8: A Late Synchronism between Ugarit and Emar
• Chapter 9: The Origin of Biblical Israel
• Chapter 10: The Iconography of Wisdom
• Chapter 11: Observations on Two Inscriptions of Esarhaddon: Prism Nineveh A and the Letter to the God
• Chapter 12: The Last Labayu: King Saul and the Expansion of the First North Israelite Territorial Entity
• Chapter 13: “The Lying Pen of the Scribes”?Jeremiah and History
• Chapter 14: The Wall of Jerusalem from a Double Perspective: Kings versus Chronicles
• Chapter 15: Yhwh’s Rejection of the House Built for His Name:On the Significance of Anti-temple Rhetoric inthe Deuteronomistic History
• Chapter 16: On Cash-Boxes and Finding or Not Finding Books: Jehoash’s and Josiah’s Decisions to Repair the Temple
• Chapter 17: Jerusalem in the 10th Century b.c.e.:The Glass Half Full
• Chapter 18: A Conversation with My Critics: Cultic Image or Aniconism in the First Temple?
• Chapter 19: The Lady and the Bull" Remarks on the Bronze Plaque from Tel Dan
• Chapter 20: Three Hebrew Seals from the Iron Age Tombsat Mamillah, Jerusalem
• Chapter 21: Realism and Convention in the Depiction of Ancient Drummers
• Chapter 22: Sennacherib’s Campaign to Philistia and Judah: Ekron, Lachish, and Jerusalem
• Chapter 23: The Deuteronomist—Historian or Redactor ? From Simon to the Present
• Chapter 24: A Productive Textual Error in Isaiah 2:18–19
• Chapter 25: The Geography of the Borsippa Region
• Index