The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition

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Cambridge University Press, Jul 30, 2012 - Bibles - 385 pages
The 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
Index ofBiblical Texts
358
Index of Near Eastern Texts
370

Benjamin
144
Io Israelite Writers on Early Israel
162

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Daniel Fleming has taught and served in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University since 1990, when he received his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He currently serves as Chair of the Advisory Committee for NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. The current volume was launched with financial support from a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004). Fleming was also a senior Fulbright fellow to France (1997–8) and recipient of a one-year research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (2004–5). He is author of three books and co-author of a fourth: The Installation of Baal's High Priestess at Emar (1992); Time at Emar (2000); Democracy's Ancient Ancestors (Cambridge University Press, 2004); and, with Sara J. Milstein, The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic (2010). Fleming has contributed many articles on topics related to the ancient Near East to a range of professional journals and collected works.

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