A History of Biblical Israel

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78179-141-7
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

There was probably only one past, but there are many different histories. As mental representations of narrow segments of the past, 'histories' reflect different cultural contexts and different historians, although 'history' is a scientific enterprise whenever it processes representative data using rational and controllable methods to work out hypotheses that can be falsified by empirical evidence. A History of Biblical Israel combines experience gained through decades of teaching biblical exegesis and courses on the history of ancient Israel, and of on-going involvement in biblical archaeology. 'Biblical Israel' is understood as a narrative produced primarily in the province of Yehud to forge the collective memory of the elite that operated the temple of Jerusalem under the auspices of the Achaemenid imperial apparatus. The notion of 'Biblical Israel' provides the necessary hindsight to narrate the fate of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah as the pre-history of 'Biblical Israel', since the archives of these kingdoms were only mined in the Persian era to produce the grand biblical narrative.The volume covers the history of 'Biblical Israel' through its fragmentation in the Hellenistic and Roman periods until 136 CE, when four Roman legions crushed the revolt of Simeon Bar-Kosiba.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knauf, Ernst Axel

Knauf, Axel

Guillaume, Philippe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Introduction Part I: The Pre-History of Biblical Israel 1. From Merenptah to Ramses 2. From Ephraim to Mamre 3. From Saul to Jeroboam I 4. From Omri to Jeroboam II 5. From Tiglath-Pileser to Ashurbanipal 6. From Nabopolassar to Nebuchadnezzar Part II: The Formation of Biblical Israel 7. From Nebuchadnezzar to Xerxes I 8. From Artaxerxes I to Ptolemy I Part III: Disintegration of Biblical Israel 9. From Ptolemy II to Antiochus III 10. From Antiochus III to Salome Alexandra 11. 'Pax' Romana and Jewish Wars Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Axel Knauf is Assoicate Professor of the Old Testament and Biblical Studies at the University of Berne. Philippe Guillaume is Privatdozent at the Biblical Institute of the Theological Faculty of the University of Berne. His latest monograph is Land, Credit and Crisis: Agrarian Finance in the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield: Equinox, 2012).