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 InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxx, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesProceedings 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 noteJoyner-FOR JOYNER LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY, SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER AS122 .L5.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008295039
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