Ahab agonistes : the rise and fall of the Omri dynasty / edited by Lester L. Grabbe.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Grabbe, Lester L.

Conference Name:

European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History (6th : 2001 : Rome, Italy)

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 421.

European seminar in historical methodology ; 6.

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 421

European seminar in historical methodology ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Omri dynasty, 9th century B.C.

Omri dynasty.

Bible. Chronicles--Criticism and interpretation.

Bible.

Bible. Chronicles--Criticism, Textual.

Bible. Chronicles.

Criticism, Textual.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 353 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T&T Clark, [2007]

Summary:

In this volume the European Seminar in Historical Methodology uses the period of the 9th and 8th centuries as a field for investigating the question of writing a history of Israel. This period provides a striking example in which the biblical text can be compared with other written and artifactual sources. Contributors explore a variety of aspects of the history of the period of Omri and Ahab and the following Jehu dynasty. As a volume it provides a comprehensive picture of the sources, the historical problems, and the areas of major debate. >

Contents:

Part II Articles

/ Hans M. Barstad Can Prophetic Texts Be Dated? Amos 1-2 as an Example 21

/ Ehud Ben Zvi The House of Omri/Ahab in Chronicles 41

/ Lester L. Grabbe The Kingdom of Israel from Omri to the Fall of Samaria: If We Had Only the Bible... 54

/ Ernst Axel Knauf Was Omride Israel a Sovereign State? 100

/ Ingo Kottsieper The Tel Dan Inscription (KAI 310) and the Political Relations between Aram-Damascus and Israel in the First Half of the First Millennium bce 104

/ Andre Lemaire The Mesha Stele and the Omri Dynasty 135

/ Nadav Na'aman Royal Inscription versus Prophetic Story: Mesha's Rebellion according to Biblical and Moabite Historiography 145

/ Hermann Michael Niemann Royal Samaria - Capital or Residence? or: The Foundation of the City of Samaria by Sargon II 184

/ Dagmar Pruin What Is in a Text? - Searching for Jezebel 208

/ Thomas L. Thompson A Testimony of the Good King: Reading the Mesha Stele 236

/ David Ussishkin Samaria, Jezreel and Megiddo: Royal Centres of Omri and Ahab 293

/ David A. Warburton The Architecture of Israelite Temples 310

/ Lester L. Grabbe Reflections on the Discussion 331.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0567045404

9780567045409

OCLC:

123796529