Ancient Israel : a new history of Israel /: a new history of Israel. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Niels Peter Lemche.
• Authors: Lemche, Niels Peter
• Contents: ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Table of Chronology""; ""Introduction to Ancient Israel: New Edition""; ""Dating biblical historiography""; ""Identifying the hot spots of recent historical analysis""; ""Chapter 1 Geography, Demography, Economy""; ""1â€?Introduction""; ""2â€?The geography of Palestine""; ""3â€?Demography and economy""; ""4â€?Concluding remarks""; ""Chapter 2 Text and History""; ""1â€?The Old Testament as history""; ""2â€?The Old Testament regarded as a text""; ""3â€?The Old Testament as a historical source"" ""4â€?Methods of reading the texts""""5â€?Other sources""; ""Chapter 3 The Pre-monarchical Period""; ""1â€?Palestine between 3000 and 1500""; ""2â€?The Late Bronze Age""; ""3â€?Israelite tribal society""; ""4â€?The pre-national period in earlier academic discussion""; ""5â€?Concluding remarks""; ""Chapter 4 The Period of the Monarchy""; ""1â€?The Deuteronomistic History""; ""2â€?The political history of the monarchy""; ""3â€?Israelite society during the monarchy""; ""4â€?History as intellectual experience: The development of a national identity"" ""Chapter 5 The Exile and the Post-exilic Period""""1â€?The sources""; ""2â€?The Babylonian exile""; ""3â€?The post-exilic period""; ""Chapter 6 Israelite Religion""; ""1â€?Presuppositions for writing a history of Israelite religion""; ""2â€?West Semitic religion in the second half of the second millennium bce""; ""3â€?Monotheistic Yahwism""; ""4â€?Pre-exilic Israelite religion""; ""5â€?The transformation of pre-exilic religion""; ""6â€?The origins of Yahwism""; ""7â€?Concluding remarks""; ""A Guide to Relevant Literature""; ""Bibliographical notes""; ""General works"" ""Chapter 1â€?Geography, demography, economy""""Chapter 2â€?Text and history""; ""Chapter 3â€?Pre-monarchical period""; ""Chapter 4â€?The period of the Monarchy""; ""Chapter 5â€?The exile and Post-exilic periods""; ""Chapter 6â€?Israelite religion""; ""Introduction to Ancient Israel Bibliography: Supplement for New Edition""; ""General introduction""; ""Centralist position""; ""Conservative position""; ""The minimalists""; ""The series changing perspectives""; ""Archaeology and the Bible""; ""Jerusalem""; ""The Yahwist and historiography in the Pentateuch"" ""Deuteronomism and the Deuteronomistic history""""The Babylonian exile, the Persian and early Hellenistic periods""; ""The Bible and the Greeks""; ""Samarians/Samaritans""; ""Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls""; ""Index of Biblical References""; ""Index of Authors""
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury T&T Clark
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 933; Religion -- Biblical Studies -- General; HISTORY / Ancient / General; History of Biblical events; Jews; Religion -- Biblical Studies -- History & Culture; Religion -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament; Biblical studies & exegesis; Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D; Bible. Old Testament -- History of Biblical events; Israel -- History; Jews -- History -- To 586 B.C; Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D; Middle East -- Palestine; Electronic books; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567662798; 0567662799; 9780567662804; 0567662802
• Related ISBNs: 9780567662781
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 21, 2015)
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