In search of pre-exilic Israel : proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar / edited by John Day.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oxford Old Testament Seminar.

Contributor:

Day, John, 1948-

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 406.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 406

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--History--To 586 B.C--Congresses.

Jews.

Bible. O.T--History of Biblical events--Congresses.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark, 2006.

Summary:

In recent years there has been a tendency among certain scholars to claim that little can be known about pre-exilic Israel, because the Old Testament was only compiled in the post-exilic period (for example Philip Davies, Thomas Thompson, Neils Peter Lemche). One scholar (Lemche) has even claimed that the Old Testament is a Hellenistic work. The purpose of this book is to argue that this is an extreme and untenable position and that, though much of the Old Testament was indeed edited in the exilic or post-exilic period, many of the underlying sources used go back to the pre-exilic period. When

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 CURRENT 'REVISIONISM' AND THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT; Chapter 2 WAS THERE AN EXODUS?; Chapter 3 BACK TO BASICS: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF THE EMERGENCE OF ANCIENT ISRAEL; Chapter 4 HISTORIES AND NON-HISTORIES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL: THE QUESTION OF THE UNITED MONARCHY; Chapter 5 DATING THE 'SUCCESSION NARRATIVE'; Chapter 6 THE DATE OF THE YAHWIST; Chapter 7 WAS THERE A SOCIAL CRISIS IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY?; Chapter 8 IN SEARCH OF POST-EXILIC ISRAEL: SAMARIA AFTER THE FALL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM

Chapter 9 IN SEARCH OF THE PRE-EXILIC ISAIAHChapter 10 JEREMIAH BEFORE THE EXILE?; Chapter 11 HOW MANY PRE-EXILIC PSALMS ARE THERE?; Chapter 12 HOW MUCH WISDOM LITERATURE HAS ITS ROOTS IN THE PRE-EXILIC PERIOD?; Chapter 13 IS THE COVENANT CODE AN EXILIC COMPOSITION? A RESPONSE TO JOHN VAN SETERS; Chapter 14 YAHWEH'S ASHERAH, INCLUSIVE MONOTHEISM AND THE QUESTION OF DATING; Chapter 15 MESOPOTAMIAN SOURCES AND PRE-EXILIC ISRAEL; Chapter 16 HEBREW AND WEST SEMITIC INSCRIPTIONS AND PRE-EXILIC ISRAEL; Chapter 17 HEBREW POETIC STRUCTURE AS A BASIS FOR DATING; Index of References; Index of Authors

Notes:

Originally published : 2004.

Seventeen essays which were originally papers delivered to the Oxford Old Testament seminar between January 2001 and June 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613270962

9781283270960

128327096X

9780567245540

0567245543

OCLC:

747546976