Understanding the history of ancient Israel / edited by H.G.M. Williamson.
| Other author | Williamson, H. G. M. (Hugh Godfrey Maturin), 1947- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Description | xx, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Proceedings of the British Academy ; 143 Proceedings of the British Academy 143. ^A299844 |
| Contents | Setting the scene : a brief outline of histories of Israel / J.W. Rogerson -- Setting the scene : a response to John Rogerson / Keith W. Whitelam -- The history of ancient Israel : what directions should we take? / Hans M. Barstad -- Biblical Israel in the ninth century? / Philip R. Davies -- Some recent issues in the study of the history of Israel / Lester L. Grabbe -- Classical history : a sketch, with three artifacts / T.P. Wiseman -- Early Islamic history : parallels and problems / Chase F. Robinson -- Ancient Near Eastern history : the case of Cyrus the Great of Persia / Amélie Kuhrt -- Archaeology of the Biblical period : on some questions of methodology and chronology of the Iron Age / David Ussishkin -- The spade and the text : the interaction between archaeology and Israelite history relating to the tenth-ninth centures BCE / Amihai Mazar -- Neither eyewitnesses, nor windows to the past, but valuable testimony in its own right / Christoph Uehlinger -- Akkadian sources of the ninth century / M.J. Geller -- Neo-Assyrian and Israelite history in the ninth century : the role of Shalmaneser III / K. Lawson Younger, Jr. -- West Semitic inscriptions and ninth century BCE ancient Israel / André Lemaire -- Method in the application of Biblical source material to historical writing (with particular reference to the ninth century BCE) / Marc Zvi Brettler -- Reading Kings on the divided monarchy : what sort of narrative? / Graeme Auld -- Social history of ancient Israel / Rainer Albertz -- Law in the ninth century : Jehoshapat's "judicial reform" / Bernard S. Jackson -- The Northern Kingdom in the late tenth-ninth centuries BCE / Nadav Naʼaman. |
| Local note | Joyner-FOR JOYNER LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY, SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER AS122 .L5. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2008295039 |
| ISBN | 9780197264010 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0197264018 (hbk.) |