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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Understanding the history of ancient Israel. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)607811002 Online version: Understanding the history of ancient Israel. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)608667940 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
H G M Williamson |
| ISBN: | 9780197264010 0197264018 |
| OCLC Number: | 181923987 |
| Description: | xx, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Proceedings of the British Academy, 143. |
| Responsibility: | edited by H.G.M. Williamson. |
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[a] well-produced volume International Review of Biblical Studies For all its brevity, this elegantly written paper is a basic-and convincing-contribution to understanding 1/2 Kings. International Review of Biblical Studies This volume is a 'must read' for all who are interested in current debates concerning the history of Israel, especially ninth century, and the editor is to be congratulated on putting together such an excellent volume. J. Day, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Read more...
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