An Ancient Israelite Historian

Author : Bernd U. Schipper
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646020270

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A Concise History of Ancient Israel by Bernd U. Schipper Pdf

The history of biblical Israel, as it is told in the Hebrew Bible, differs substantially from the history of ancient Israel as it can be reconstructed using ancient Near Eastern texts and archaeological evidence. In A Concise History of Ancient Israel, Bernd U. Schipper uses this evidence to present a critical revision of the history of Israel and Judah from the late second millennium BCE to the beginning of the Roman period. Considering archaeological material as well as biblical and extrabiblical texts, Schipper argues that the history of “Israel” in the preexilic period took place mostly in the hinterland of the Levant and should be understood in the context of the Neo-Assyrian expansion. He demonstrates that events in the exilic and postexilic periods also played out differently than they are recounted in the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah. In contrast to previous scholarship, which focused heavily on Israel’s origins and the monarchic period, Schipper’s history gives equal attention to the Persian and early Hellenistic periods, providing confirmation that a wide variety of forms of YHWH religion existed in the Persian period and persisted into the Hellenistic age. Original and innovative, this brief history provides a new outline of the historical development of ancient Israel that will appeal to students, scholars, and lay readers who desire a concise overview.

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780222776

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The History of Ancient Israel by Michael Grant Pdf

The definitve guide to the history of ancient Israel. The History of Ancient Israel covers the epic story of Jewish civilisation from its beginnings to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the Temple in AD 70. It deals with Israel's relations with the great empires which shaped its development and with the changing internal structure of the Jewish state, drawing both on excavation and the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Bill T. Arnold,Richard S. Hess
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441246349

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Ancient Israel's History by Bill T. Arnold,Richard S. Hess Pdf

The history of Israel is a much-debated topic in Old Testament studies. On one side are minimalists who find little of historical value in the Hebrew Bible. On the other side are those who assume the biblical text is a precise historical record. Many serious students of the Bible find themselves between these two positions and would benefit from a careful exploration of issues in Israelite history. This substantive history of Israel textbook values the Bible's historical contribution without overlooking critical issues and challenges. Featuring the latest scholarship, the book introduces students to the current state of research on issues relevant to the study of ancient Israel. The editors and contributors, all top biblical scholars and historians, discuss historical evidence in a readable manner, using both canonical and chronological lenses to explore Israelite history. Illustrative items, such as maps and images, visually support the book's content. Tables and sidebars are also included.

Author : Nadav Na'aman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575065694

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Ancient Israel's History and Historiography by Nadav Na'aman Pdf

Throughout the past three decades, Nadav Na’aman has repeatedly proved that he is one of the most careful historians of ancient Canaan and Israel. With broad expertise, he has brought together archaeology, text, and the inscriptional material from all of the ancient Near East to bear on the history of ancient Israel and the land of Canaan during the second and first millenniums B.C.E. Many of his studies have been published as journal articles or notes and yet, together, they constitute one of the most important bodies of literature on the subject in recent years, particularly because of the careful attention to methodology that Na’aman always has brought to his work. This final volume in the 3-volume set of Na’aman’s collected essays contains 29 essays. Among the topics addressed are: the sources available to Israel’s historians late in the first millennium B.C.E.; the reality behind the narratives relating to the history of the United Monarchy; the effect of the author’s own time on the composition of the histories of Saul, David, and Solomon; and the contributions of archaeology to the study of the tenth century B.C.E. In the course of covering these themes, Na’aman touches on topics such as history and historiography, textual and literary problems, historical geography, society, administration, cult, and religion.

Author : Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781134649853

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The Creation of History in Ancient Israel by Marc Zvi Brettler Pdf

Argues that the biblical historians were influenced by typology, interpretation of earlier texts, satire and ideology; shows how, with this model, we can put together a history of ancient Israel using the Hebrew Bible as a key source.

Author : Julius Wellhausen,John Sutherland Black,Allan Menzies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010510303

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Prolegomena to the History of Israel by Julius Wellhausen,John Sutherland Black,Allan Menzies Pdf

Author : Isaac Kalimi
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781575060583

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The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles by Isaac Kalimi Pdf

Kalimi catalogues and categorizes the techniques by which the Israelite history in Samuel-Kings is reshaped in the biblical books of Chronicles. The chapters of this study consider the various historiographical and literary changes found in the parallel texts of Chronicles. Because about half of the material in Chronicles is available to us in other biblical sources, comparison of the literary and linguistic devices used by the Chronicler are very revealing. Kalimi considers the ways in which the Chronicler has edited the material available to him, addressing such topics as: literary-chronological proximity, historiographical revision, completions and additions, various kinds of parallelism and literary devices, and so on. A handy compendium of the ways in which the Chronicler treated his material by one of the premier scholars working in the field.

Author : Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134649846

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The Creation of History in Ancient Israel by Marc Zvi Brettler Pdf

The Creation of History in Ancient Israel demonstrates how the historian can start to piece together the history of ancient Israel using the Hebrew Bible as a source.

Author : Isaac Kalimi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004358768

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An Ancient Israelite Historian by Isaac Kalimi Pdf

“Kalimi, one of the esteemed specialists of the Chronicler’s work... has provided us an intriguing historical and theological study about the Chronicler’s work that will surely provoke further discussion.” — Stefan Beyerle, In: Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 37 (2006). “Among Biblical scholars of Jewish background, Kalimi shows an outstanding ability to see and draw relationships between original passages and sources as well as ancient and modern commentaries.... Kalimi accomplished what he promised in the title of the book: to demonstrate that the Chronicler is “an ancient Israelite historian.'" - Chen Yiyi, In: Journal of Ancient Civilizations 24 (2009). “The book is another important contribution to the study of Chronicles by an eminent expert on that field, and as such is indispensable on every scholar’s desk, not only in the field of Chronicles but also for everyone with an interest in biblical historiography in general.” – M. Marciak, In: The Polish Journal of Biblical Research 8 (2009). “Professor Kalimi is to be congratulated for these two works, which are perhaps the finest analysis of Chronicles in the recent decades. Tons of ink has been spent on discussions that have gone above basic questions that the author has analyzed point by point, and no doubt studies in the future have come in the work of Kalimi a base and inescapable benchmark for discussions.” – J.M. Tebes, In: Antiguo Oriente 8 (2010).

Author : Hans M. Barstad
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 3161498097

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History and the Hebrew Bible by Hans M. Barstad Pdf

In this collection of essays, Hans M. Barstad deals thoroughly with the recent history debate, and demonstrates its relevancy for the study of ancient Israelite history and historiography. He takes an independent stand in the heated maximalist/minimalist debate on the historicity of the Hebrew Bible. Vital to his understanding is the necessity to realize the narrative nature of the ancient Hebrew and of the Near Eastern sources. Equally important is his claim that stories, too, may convey positivistic historical "facts." The other major topic he deals with in the book is the actual history of ancient Judah in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods. Here, the author makes extensive use of extant ancient Near Eastern sources, both textual and archaeological, and he puts much weight on economic aspects. He shows that the key to understanding the role of Judah in the 1st millennium lays in the proper evaluation of Judah and its neighbouring city states within their respective imperial contexts. A proper understanding of the history of Judah during the 6th century BCE, consequently, can only be obtained when Judah is studied as a part of the much wider Neo-Babylonian imperial policy.

Author : James Maxwell Miller
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 066421262X

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A History of Ancient Israel and Judah by James Maxwell Miller Pdf

A significant achievement, this book moves our understanding of the history of Israel forward as dramatically as John Bright's A History of Israel, Martin Noth's History of Israel, and William F. Albright's From the Stone Age ot Cristianity did at an earlier period.

Author : Isaac Kalimi
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9023240715

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An Ancient Israelite Historian by Isaac Kalimi Pdf

"Kalimi, one of the esteemed specialists of the Chronicler's work... has provided us an intriguing historical and theological study about the Chronicler's work that will surely provoke further discussion." -- Stefan Beyerle, In: Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 37 (2006). "Among Biblical scholars of Jewish background, Kalimi shows an outstanding ability to see and draw relationships between original passages and sources as well as ancient and modern commentaries.... Kalimi accomplished what he promised in the title of the book: to demonstrate that the Chronicler is "an ancient Israelite historian.'" - Chen Yiyi, In: Journal of Ancient Civilizations 24 (2009). "The book is another important contribution to the study of Chronicles by an eminent expert on that field, and as such is indispensable on every scholar's desk, not only in the field of Chronicles but also for everyone with an interest in biblical historiography in general." - M. Marciak, In: The Polish Journal of Biblical Research 8 (2009). "Professor Kalimi is to be congratulated for these two works, which are perhaps the finest analysis of Chronicles in the recent decades. Tons of ink has been spent on discussions that have gone above basic questions that the author has analyzed point by point, and no doubt studies in the future have come in the work of Kalimi a base and inescapable benchmark for discussions." - J.M. Tebes, In: Antiguo Oriente 8 (2010).

Author : Thompson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004494220

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Early History of the Israelite People by Thompson Pdf

This is a groundbreaking book on the origins of Israel, taking into account the contexts of geography, anthropology, and sociology, and drawing on a careful analysis of archaeological and written evidence. Thompson argues that none of the traditional models for the origin of biblical Israel in terms of conquest, peaceful settlement, or revolution are viable. The ninth and eighth century BC State of Israel is a product of the Mediterranean economy. The development of the ethnic concept of biblical Israel finds its context in history first at the time of the Persian renaissance. The volume presents a clear historical context and an interpretative matrix for the Bible.

Author : Keith W. Whitelam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317799160

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The Invention of Ancient Israel by Keith W. Whitelam Pdf

The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the true history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam shows how ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state, influenced by the realisation of the state of Israel in 1948. He explores the theological and political assumptions which have shaped research into ancient Israel by Biblical scholars, and contributed to the vast network of scholarship which Said identified as 'Orientalist discourse'. This study concentrates on two crucial periods from the end of the late Bronze Age to the Iron Age, a so-called period of the emergence of ancient Israel and the rise of an Israelite state under David. It explores the prospects for developing the study of Palestinian history as a subject in its own right, divorced from the history of the Bible, and argues that Biblical scholars, through their traditional view of this area, have contributed to dispossession both of a Palestinian land and a Palestinian past. This contoversial book is important reading for historians, Biblical specialists, social anthropologists and all those who are interested in the history of ancient Israel and Palestine.

Author : Iain William Provan,V. Philips Long,Tremper Longman
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664220908

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A Biblical History of Israel by Iain William Provan,V. Philips Long,Tremper Longman Pdf

In this much-anticipated textbook, three respected biblical scholars have written a history of ancient Israel that takes the biblical text seriously as an historical document. While also considering nonbiblical sources and being attentive to what disciplines like archaeology, anthropology, and sociology suggest about the past, the authors do so within the context and paradigm of the Old Testament canon, which is held as the primary document for reconstructing Israel's history. In Part One, the authors set the volume in context and review past and current scholarly debate about learning Israel's history, negating arguments against using the Bible as the central source. In Part Two, they seek to retell the history itself with an eye to all the factors explored in Part One.