The historian and the Bible : essays in honour of Lester L. Grabbe / edited by Philip R. Davies and Diana V. Edelman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grabbe, Lester L.

Davies, Philip R.

Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954-

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 530.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 530

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Bible. Old Testament--Historiography.

Bible. Old Testament--Evidences, authority, etc.

Jews--History--To 70 A.D.

Jews.

History.

Judaism--History--To 70 A.D.

Judaism.

Historiography.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : T & T Clark International, [2010]

Contents:

History and memory : some reflections on the "memory debate" in relation to the Hebrew Bible / Hans M. Barstad

Did a reform like Josiah's happen? / Niels Peter Lemche

Text and archaeology in a period of great decline : the contribution of the Amarna letters to the debate on the historicity of Nehemiah's wall / Nadav Naʼaman

Secondary sources also deserve to be historically evaluated : the case of the united monarchy / Rainer Albertz

Reiterative narratives of exile and return : virtual memories of Abraham in the Persian and Hellenistic periods / Thomas L. Thompson

Hazor in the second half of the tenth century B.C.E. : historiography, archaeology and history / André Lemaire

The chronology of the biblical fairy-tale / Mario Liverani

A contribution to the intellectual history of Yehud : the story of Micaiah and its function within the discourse of Persian-period literati / Ehud Ben Zvi

Of priests and prophets and interpreting the past : the Egyptian ḥm-nt̲r and ḫry-ḥbt and the Judahite nāb̲îʼ / Diana V. Edelman

Welcome home / H.G.M. Williamson

"Here is a man whose name is Ṣemaḥ" (Zechariah 6:12) / Oded Lipschits

Drought, hunger, and redistribution : a social economic reading of Nehemiah 5 / Bob Becking

Footnotes to the rescript of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:11-26) / Joseph Blenkinsopp

Aspects of Samaria's religious culture during the early Hellenistic period / Gary N. Knoppers

Biblical references to Judean settlement in Eretz Israel (and beyond) in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods / Ernst Axel Knauf

The Hebrew canon and the origins of Judaism / Philip R. Davies

What makes a text historical? : assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea scrolls / George J. Brooke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780567202680

0567202682

OCLC:

494982366