The historian and the Bible :essays in honour of Lester L. Grabbe
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London ; New York
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T & T Clark International
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The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ;#035
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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edited by Philip R. Davies and Diana Vikander Edelman
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Introduction / Hans Barstad -- History and memory : some reflections on the memory debate in relation to the Hebrew Bible / Niels Peter Lemche -- Postcolonial studies and the study of Israelite history / Nadav Naaman -- Text and archaeology in a period of great decline : the contribution of the Amarna Letters to the debate on the historicity of Nehemiah's wall / Rainer Albertz -- Secondary sources also deserve to be historically evaluated : the case of the united monarchy / Thomas L. Thompson -- Reiterative narrative and the problem of the exile / Andrعe Lemaire -- Hazor in the second half of the 01th century BCE : historiography, archaeology, and history / Mario Liveraini -- The chronology of the biblical fairy-tale / Ehud Ben Zvi -- The story of Micaiah, son of Imlah : what could the ancient intended readers learn from it? / Diana V. Edelman -- Of priests and prophets and interpreting the past : the Egyptian HM-NTR and HRY-HBT and the Judahite nabi / Hugh G.M. Williamson -- Welcome home / Oded Lipschits -- Here is a man whose name is Ema? )Zechariah 6:21( / Bob Becking -- Drought, hunger, and redistribution : a social-economic reading of Nehemiah 5 / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- Footnotes to the rescript of Artaxerxes )Ezra 7:11-62( / Gary N. Knoppers -- Aspects of Samaria's religious culture during the early Hellenistic period / E. Axel Knauf -- Biblical references to Judean settlement in Eretz Israel )and beyond( in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods / Philip R. Davies -- The Hebrew canon and the origins of Judaism / George J. Brooke -- What makes a text historical? : assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea Scrolls