Classic Essays in Biblical History

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4094-2916-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 628 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

Reihe: Classic Essays in Jewish History

This volume brings together essays by leading scholars from North America, Europe, and Israel who have drawn on literary analysis of the biblical text as well as archaeology, anthropology, and sociology to make significant contributions to our understanding of the history and religion of ancient Israel.

An introduction by the editors summarizes issues that have emerged over the past generation, including competing positions as to the reliability of the biblical accounts and the relevance of archaeological evidence; it also places the essays that are reproduced in the following pages into this larger context. The first section of essays then offers several that present different views as to the methodology for reconstructing the history of ancient Israel. Subsequent sections examine issues pertaining to what the Bible depicts as the patriarchal period, the exodus from Egypt and occupation of the Promised Land, the united monarchy and its subsequent division, and the Babylonian exile and return. The final section includes essays that explore Israelite religion, focusing on fundamental beliefs and practices as well as relationships to the religions of neighboring cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenspahn, Frederick E.

Greenspahn, Frederick

Machinist, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I. Methodology

1. Julius Wellhausen, "Introduction" and "The Theocracy as Idea and as

Institution" (chapter 11) of his Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel (New York: Meridian Books, 1957) pp. 1-13 and 411-25.

2. Iain W. Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman III, "Knowing about

the History of Israel," from their A Biblical History of Israel

(Westminster John Knox, 2003), chapter 3, pp. 51-74 and 311-19.

3. Niels P. Lemche, "On the Problem of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic

Israelite (Palestinian) History," in Lester Grabbe, ed., "Like a Bird in a Cage" (JSOT Supplement 363; London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003) pp. 150-67 = Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 3/1 (2000).



Part II. Patriarchal Period

4. Frank Moore Cross, Jr., "The God of the Fathers" in his Canaanite Myth and

Hebrew Epic (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973), pp. 3-12.

5. Benjamin Mazar, "The Historical Background of the Book of Genesis," Journal

of Near Eastern Studies 28 (1969) 73-83.



Part III. Exodus

6. Roland deVaux, "The Oppression," "The Exodus from Egypt: The Biblical

Traditions," "The Historical Interpretation," and "The Date of the Exodus" in his Early History of Israel (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978) pp. 324-27, 370-76, and 388-92.

7. Donald B. Redford, "An Egyptological Perspective on the Exodus Narrative"

in Egypt, Israel, Sinai, Archaeological and Historical Relationships in

the Biblical Period, ed. Anson F. Rainey (Tel Aviv University, 1987)

pp. 137-61.



Part IV. Conquest and Settlement

8. William F. Albright, "The Israelite Conquest of Canaan in the Light of

Archaeology," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 74 (April, 1939) 11-23.

9. George E. Mendenhall, "The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine," Biblical

Archaeologist 25 (1962) 65-87.

10. Martin Noth, "The Occupation of the Land by the Tribes of Israel" and "The

Twelve-tribe System" in his The History of Israel, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1958) pp. 68-97.

11. Lawrence E. Stager, "The Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel,"

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 260 (1985) 1-35.



Part V. United Monarchy

12. Hayim Tadmor, "Traditional Institutions and the Monarchy: Social and

Political Tensions in the Time of David and Solomon," in Studies in the Period of David and Solomon, ed. Tomoo Ishida (Tokyo/Eisenbrauns, 1982) pp. 239-57.

13. Amihai Mazar, "The Spade and the Text: The Interaction between Archaeology

and Israelite History Relating to the Tenth-Ninth Centuries BCE" in

Understanding the History of Ancient Israel, ed. H.G.M. Williamson (Proceedings of the British Academy 143; Oxford, 2007) pp. 143-171.

14. Gary N. Knoppers, "The Vanishing Solomon: The Disappearance of the United

Monarchy from Recent Histories of Ancient Israel," Journal of Biblical Literature 116 (1997) 19-44.



Part VI. Divided Monarchy

15. John S. Holladay, Jr., "The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah: Political and

Economic Centralization in the Iron IIA-B (ca. 1000-750 BCE)" in The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land, ed. Thomas E. Levy (London: Leicester University Press, 1998) pp. 368-98 and 586-90.

16. Mordechai Cogan, "Judah Under Assyrian Hegemony: A Re-examination of

Imperialism and Religion," Journal of Biblical Literature 112 (1993)

403-14.

17. Nadav Na’aman, "The Discovered Book and the Legitimation of Josiah¹s

Reform," Journal of Biblical Literature 130 (2011) 47-62.



Part VII. Exile

18. William G. Dever, "Archaeology and the Fall of Judah" in Eretz-Israel 29

(Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2009) pp. 29*-35*.

19. Bustenay Oded, "Observations on the Israelite/Judean Exiles in Mesopotamia

during the Eighth-Sixth Centuries BCE" in Immigration and Emigration Within the Ancient Near East: Festschrift E. Lipinski, ed. K. van Lerberghe and A. Schoors (OLA; Leuven: Peeters, 1995) pp. 205-12.

20. Hans M. Barstad, "On the History and Archaeology of Judah during the

Exilic Period, A Reminder," Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 19 (1988) 25-36.



Part VIII. Restoration

21. Elias J. Bickerman, "The Edict of Cyrus in Ezra 1," Journal of Biblical

Literature 65 (1946) 249-75.

22. Sara Japhet, "People and Land in the Restoration Period" in her From the

Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah, Collected Studies on the Restoration Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006) pp. 96-116.



Part IX. Religion

23. Morton Smith, "The Common Theology of the Ancient Near East," Journal of

Biblical Literature 71 (1952) 135-48.

24. Yehezkel Kaufmann, "The Bible and Mythological Polytheism," Journal of

Biblical Literature 70 (1951) 179-97.

25. Tikva Frymer-Kensky, "Asherah and Abundance," chapter 13 of her In the

Wake of the Goddesses, Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth (New York: Free Press, 1992) pp. 153-61 and 264-66.

26. Rainer Albertz, "Family Religion in Ancient Israel and Its Surroundings"

in Household and Family Religion in Antiquity, ed. John Bodel and Saul Olyan (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008) pp. 89-112.

27. Robert Wilson, "Early Israelite Prophecy," Interpretation 32 (1978) 3-16.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Frederick E. Greenspahn is Gimelstob Eminent Scholar of Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University, USA.

Peter Machinist is Hancock Research Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, USA.