Israel in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIA (c. - download pdf or read online

History 1

By Lester L. Grabbe

ISBN-10: 0567649482

ISBN-13: 9780567649485

Israel in Transition 2 is the second one in a two-volume paintings addressing the various historic difficulties when it comes to the early background of Israel, from its first point out round 1200 BCE to the beginnings of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.  in this 4 century transition interval Israel moved from a bunch of small settlements within the Judean and Samarian hill nation to the 2 kingdoms of Israel and Judah, occupying a lot of the land at the west facet of the Jordan. 
The current quantity engages with the suitable texts.  those comprise numerous inscriptions, equivalent to the Tel Dan inscription and the Assyrian inscriptions, but in addition an exam of the biblical text.  The articles speak about quite a few person difficulties in relation to Israelite background, yet finally the purpose is to touch upon ancient methodology. 
The debate between Seminar participants illustrates not just the issues but in addition indicates suggestions and usable methods.  The editor offers a point of view at the debate in a end that summarizes the contributions of the 2 volumes jointly.

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The provocatively titled Is History Fiction? notes: “History wars, wherever they occur, have a way of driving historians back to the sources, checking the 7. See Fulbrook 2005, esp. 98–121. 8. ” 9. McCullagh 2004, 21: “How do historians arrive at particular facts about the past? ” McCullagh’s essay in its entirety is a polemic against postmodern approaches. See also the critique in Tucker 2004. 10. ” 1 28 Israel in Transition 2 relationship between historical narration and analysis on the one hand and the documentary and other records on the other” (Curthoys and Docker 2005, 232).

3) More important: this fresh text-based, historical criticism poses fresh questions. How, for example, should the historian seek to connect and account for the following observations of the textual historian? (a) The summary of Saul’s victories (including supremacy over Amalek) is derived from the summary of David’s. (b) Amalek is the only foe in the David summary about whom no further information is provided in the BTH. (c) The extended narratives about Saul and Amalek (1 Sam 15) and about David and Amalek (1 Sam 30 and 2 Sam 1) are all within rewritten doublets.

OTM. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lust, J. 1986. In Barthélemy, Gooding, Lust, and Tov 1986. Rezetko, R. 2009. What Happened to the Book of Samuel in the Persian Period and Beyond. , 2009. , T. H. Lim, and W. B. Aucker, eds. 2007. ReÀection and Refraction. VTSup 113. Leiden: Brill. Römer, T. C. 2005. The So-Called Deuteronomistic History. London: T&T Clark. Rofé, A. 1987. The Battle of David and Goliath: Folklore, Theology, Eschatology. Pages 117–51 in Judaic Perspectives on Ancient Israel.

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