History, archaeology and the Bible forty years after historicity /
[Book]
edited by Ingrid Hjelm and Thomas L. Thompson.
xvi, 229 pages ;
25 cm.
Changing perspectives ;
Copenhagen international seminar
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Includes bibliographical references indexes.
Changing perspectives in biblical studies -- Old and new in Scandinavian interpretation of the Hebrew Bible -- Myth and history: reflections on the relationship between biblical history and the history of Israel -- Out of the wilderness? Some suggestions for the future of Pentateuchal research -- The contemporary debate over linguistic dates of biblical texts -- Archaeology, cult and history -- From Jerusalem with love -- Gender marking, overlapping and the identity of the Bes-like figures at Kuntillet Ajrud -- Lost and found? A non-Jewish Israel from the Merneptah stele to the Byzantine period -- Antiochus IV Ephiphanes and the Jews: a reassessment -- Ideology and history -- From the search for ancient Israel to the history of ancient Palestine -- Ethnicity and a regional history of Palestine -- "The destruction that can be studies": Israeli archeology and the deserted Palestinian villages -- The Bible in the service of Zionism: "we do not believe in God, but he nonetheless promised us Palestine" -- Arab scholars' contribution to biblical studies.
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Bible-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible., Old Testament-- Antiquities.
Bible., Old Testament-- History of Biblical events.