Jerusalem in ancient history and tradition / edited by Thomas L. Thompson with the collaboration of Salma Khadra Jayyusi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, Thomas L., 1939-

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra.

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 381.

Copenhagen international seminar ; 13.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 381

Copenhagen international seminar ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jerusalem--History.

Jerusalem.

Physical Description:

xxii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark, [2003]

Summary:

An international team of historians, archaeologists and biblical scholars discuss new perspectives on the archaeology, history and biblical traditions of ancient Jerusalem and examine their ethical, literary, historical and theological relationships. Essays range from a discussion of the Hellenization of Jerusalem in the time of Herod to an examination of its identity and myth on the Internet, while Thomas L. Thompsons informed Introduction queries whether a true history of ancient Jerusalem and Palestine can in fact ever be written.

Contents:

An Introduction: Can a History of Ancient Jerusalem and Palestine be Written? / Thomas L. Thompson 1

A Moral Reading of the Bible in Jerusalem / Michael Prior 16

'House of David': The Tel Dan Inscription(s) / Niels Peter Lemche 46

Expanding Borders: The Development of Jerusalem in the Iron Age / Margreet Steiner 68

Rome, Syria and the Jerusalem High Priest: The International Bases of the High Priest's Rule of the Jerusalem City-State: 175-63 BCE / Sara Mandell 80

Herod and Jerusalem: The Hellenization of an Oriental City / John Strange 97

Jerusalem in the Time of the Kingdom of Judah / Firas Sawah 114

Ethnic Groups in Jerusalem / Lester L. Grabbe 145

From Zion to Zion: Jerusalem in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Philip R. Davies 164

The Making of the Holy City: On the Foundations of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible / Thomas M. Bolin 171

Brothers Fighting Brothers: Jewish and Samaritan Ethnocentrism in Tradition and History / Ingrid Hjelm 197

Holy War at the Center of Biblical Theology: Shalom and the Cleansing of Jerusalem / Thomas L. Thompson 223

'Next Year in Jerusalem': Bible, Identity and Myth on the Web / David M. Gunn 258

Imagining Jerusalem / Keith W. Whitelam 272.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0826466648

0567083608

OCLC:

54068292