The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of TraditionThe Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible undertakes a comprehensive reevaluation of the Bible's primary narrative in Genesis through Kings as it relates to history. It divides the core textual traditions along political lines that reveal deeply contrasting assumptions, an approach that places biblical controversies in dialogue with anthropologically informed archaeology. Starting from close study of selected biblical texts, the work moves toward historical issues that may be illuminated by both this material and a larger range of textual evidence. The result is a synthesis that breaks away from conventional lines of debate in matters relating to ancient Israel and the Bible, setting an agenda for future engagement of these fields with wider study of antiquity. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION ISRAEL AND JUDAH | 4 |
Israel Without Judah | 17 |
Writing from Judah | 39 |
An Association of Peoples in the Land The Book of Judges | 58 |
The Family of Jacob | 72 |
Collective Israel and Its Kings | 91 |
Moses and the Conquest of Eastern Israel | 114 |
Joshua and Ai | 133 |
Outside the Near East | 193 |
Israels Aramean Contemporaries | 220 |
Before Israel | 256 |
Israel and Canaan in the Thirteenth to Tenth Centuries | 276 |
Genuine versus Invented Tradition in the Bible | 304 |
Bibliography | 323 |
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