Biblical History and Israel S Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and HistoryAlthough scholars have for centuries primarily been interested in using the study of ancient Israel to explain, illuminate, and clarify the biblical story, Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle describe how scholars today seek more and more to tell the story of the past on its own terms, drawing from both biblical and extrabiblical sources to illuminate ancient Israel and its neighbors without privileging the biblical perspective. Biblical History and Israel s Past provides a comprehensive survey of how study of the Old Testament and the history of Israel has changed since the middle of the twentieth century. Moore and Kelle discuss significant trends in scholarship, trace the development of ideas since the 1970s, and summarize major scholars, viewpoints, issues, and developments. |
Contents
The Documentary Hypothesis | 6 |
New Paradigms | 17 |
The Controversies of the 1990s | 33 |
The Patriarchs and Matriarchs | 43 |
The Role of Chronology in the Study of Israels Past | 54 |
for Historical Reconstruction | 64 |
Israels Emergence | 77 |
about the Relationship of a Texts Date to Its Reliability | 86 |
Solomon | 244 |
The Monarchical Period Part | 266 |
Research ASOR 2 3 Discrepancies between Biblical and Extrabiblical Sources 279 | 279 |
Reconstructions of the Separate Kingdoms Since the 1990s | 291 |
of Iron Age SyriaPalestine | 309 |
888 | 311 |
Separate Kingdoms | 313 |
The Deuteronomistic History | 334 |
Gen 39Exodus | 92 |
in the 1980s and Beyond | 106 |
Scholarship from Mid to Late Twentieth Century | 112 |
Iron Age Villages Come? 4 4 What Explains the Settlement of the Highlands? 4 5 Who Were the Early Israelites? 4 6 What Explains the Formation o... | 125 |
Interpretive Issues Past Present and Future | 134 |
Conclusion | 141 |
of the Biblical and Extrabiblical Sources Before | 152 |
An Example of the Use of Chronicles in | 163 |
to the Understanding of the Monarchy in Israel | 181 |
Interpretive Issues Past Present and Future | 192 |
Questions for Discussion | 198 |
2 | 200 |
Overview of the Changing Study of Israels Early Monarchy | 202 |
10 | 207 |
How Israel Began to Adopt a Permanent Government | 219 |
Saul | 229 |
Evidence for David | 235 |
The Problem of Sources | 340 |
of Judah ca 597581 b c e | 351 |
NeoBabylonian Period | 357 |
NeoBabylonian Period 6 Questions for Discussion 393 | 393 |
Judaism and the Place of the Persian Period | 402 |
on the Persian Period | 408 |
The History of Israelite Religion and the History | 416 |
Written Sources | 422 |
Developments in Archaeology and the Reconstruction | 425 |
Additional Major Issues in Current Reconstructions | 434 |
Issues in the Discipline | 450 |
Conclusion | 462 |
The Bible Faith and History | 468 |
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