The appearance of In Search of 'Ancient Israel' generated a still-raging controversy about the historical reality of what biblical scholars call 'Ancient Israel'. But its argument not only takes in the problematic relationship between Iron Age Palestinian archaeology and the biblical 'Israel' but also outlines the processes that created the literature of the Hebrew bible-the ideological matrix, the scribal milieu, and the cultural adoption of a national literary archive as religious scripture as part of the process of creating 'Judaisms'. As such, in this volume Philip R. Davies challenges the whole spectrum of scholarly consensus about the origins of 'Israel' and its scriptures, in a manner that is both learned and accessible. For this new edition Davies has provided a new extended introduction, in which he considers how the debate has raged since the book was first published, and in which he repositions this classic work within the present scholarly context.
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Preface to Third Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Reflective Introduction
Ch. 1 Preliminaries
Ch. 2 Searching for 'Ancient Israel'
Ch. 3 Defining the Biblical Israel
Ch. 4 A Search for Historical Israel
Ch. 5 The Social Context of the Biblical Israel
Ch. 6 Who Wrote the Biblical Literature, and Where?
Ch. 7 How was the Biblical Literature Written, and Why?
Ch. 8 From Literature to Scripture
Ch. 9 The Emergence of Israel
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index of References
Index of Authors
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Philip Davies has been a key force in resetting the agenda and method for modern historians and biblical scholars. His many studies on the Persian and Hellenistic periods have helped scholars to envision these late centuries as the time when the biblical text was most likely composed. But his monograph In Search of "Ancient Israel" belongs to those tours de force that cut through the complexities of a discipline to make a point that has been at once obvious to many, yet enunciated by few - in this case: "biblical Israel," "historical Israel," and the scholarly construct of "ancient Israel" are distinct entities and should not be facilely confused with each other.
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This groundbreaking work created major waves when it was first published in 1992. The debate it provoked has continued, making Davies' work the starting point for a discussion about the reality of ancient 'Israel'.
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A classic work on biblical history
T&T Clark Cornerstones celebrates seminal works from across the Biblical Studies and Theology lists. Featuring forty major works in republication, each new edition contains a reflective essay on the impact that the book has had in its field, and the ways in which the field has developed since initial publication.
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ISBN
9780567662972
Publisert
2015-11-19
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
T.& T.Clark Ltd
Vekt
277 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192
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