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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ISBN
9780567662996
Publisert
2015
Utgave
2. utgave
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Vendor
Bloomsbury T&T Clark
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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