The Rise Of Ancient Israel

Author : Bernd U. Schipper
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020278
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Ancient Israel written by Bernd U. Schipper and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of biblical Israel, as it is told in the Hebrew Bible, differs substantially from the history of ancient Israel as it can be reconstructed using ancient Near Eastern texts and archaeological evidence. In A Concise History of Ancient Israel, Bernd U. Schipper uses this evidence to present a critical revision of the history of Israel and Judah from the late second millennium BCE to the beginning of the Roman period. Considering archaeological material as well as biblical and extrabiblical texts, Schipper argues that the history of “Israel” in the preexilic period took place mostly in the hinterland of the Levant and should be understood in the context of the Neo-Assyrian expansion. He demonstrates that events in the exilic and postexilic periods also played out differently than they are recounted in the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah. In contrast to previous scholarship, which focused heavily on Israel’s origins and the monarchic period, Schipper’s history gives equal attention to the Persian and early Hellenistic periods, providing confirmation that a wide variety of forms of YHWH religion existed in the Persian period and persisted into the Hellenistic age. Original and innovative, this brief history provides a new outline of the historical development of ancient Israel that will appeal to students, scholars, and lay readers who desire a concise overview.

Author : Hershel Shanks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Ancient Israel written by Hershel Shanks and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is composed of three outstanding lectures about the emergence of the ancient Israelites and their religion presented at a symposium held at the Smithsonian Institution in the fall of 1991. Professors William Dever, Baruch Halpern, and P. Kyle McCarter Jr., specialists in the fields of biblical archaeology and Near Eastern studies, present provocative theories on the arrival of the Israelites in ancient Canaan and the provenance of their religion. Did the Israelites enter Canaan according to the books of Joshua and Judges or were they already there as part of the indigenous population? Is there any reality to the biblical account of the Exodus? Where and when did belief in the God Yahweh originate? Edited under the aegis of Shanks, the well-known editor of Biblical Archaeological Review and Bible Review, this work can easily be understood by interested lay readers. Highly recommended for larger collections. Robert A. Silver, Shaker Heights P.L., Ohio. Library Journal.

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780222777
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Ancient Israel written by Michael Grant and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitve guide to the history of ancient Israel. The History of Ancient Israel covers the epic story of Jewish civilisation from its beginnings to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the Temple in AD 70. It deals with Israel's relations with the great empires which shaped its development and with the changing internal structure of the Jewish state, drawing both on excavation and the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Hershel Shanks
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780130853639
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Israel written by Hershel Shanks and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the complete history of ancient Israel--from Abraham to the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D. Provides numerous color and black-and-white photos, maps, charts, and timelines. Adds and updates evidence, analysis, and insights of events, based on developments since the book's first edition. --From publisher's description.

Author : William G. Dever
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802863949
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Did God Have a Wife? written by William G. Dever and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated, non-technical reconstruction of "folk religion" in ancient Israel is based largely on recent archaeological evidence, but also incorporates biblical texts where possible.

Author : Israel Finkelstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743223381
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible Unearthed written by Israel Finkelstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-03-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use significant archeological discoveries to provide historical information about biblical Israel and its neighbors. In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman draw on recent archaeological research to present a dramatically revised portrait of ancient Israel and its neighbors. They argue that crucial evidence (or a telling lack of evidence) at digs in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon suggests that many of the most famous stories in the Bible—the wanderings of the patriarchs, the Exodus from Egypt, Joshua’s conquest of Canaan, and David and Solomon’s vast empire—reflect the world of the later authors rather than actual historical facts. Challenging the fundamentalist readings of the scriptures and marshaling the latest archaeological evidence to support its new vision of ancient Israel, The Bible Unearthed offers a fascinating and controversial perspective on when and why the Bible was written and why it possesses such great spiritual and emotional power today.

Author : James Maxwell Miller
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664212629
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Ancient Israel and Judah written by James Maxwell Miller and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant achievement, this book moves our understanding of the history of Israel forward as dramatically as John Bright's A History of Israel, Martin Noth's History of Israel, and William F. Albright's From the Stone Age ot Cristianity did at an earlier period.

Author : Brendon C. Benz
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646022769
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land Before the Kingdom of Israel: A History of the Southern Levant and the People Who Populated It written by Brendon C. Benz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134649843
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creation of History in Ancient Israel written by Marc Zvi Brettler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creation of History in Ancient Israel demonstrates how the historian can start to piece together the history of ancient Israel using the Hebrew Bible as a source.

Author : Ilana Pardes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520929721
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Biography of Ancient Israel written by Ilana Pardes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-04-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation--particularly in Exodus and Numbers--is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the textual manifestations of the metaphor, the many anthropomorphisms by which a collective character named "Israel" springs to life. She explores the representation of communal motives, hidden desires, collective anxieties, the drama and suspense embedded in each phase of the nation's life: from birth in exile, to suckling in the wilderness, to a long process of maturation that has no definite end. In the Bible, Pardes suggests, history and literature go hand in hand more explicitly than in modern historiography, which is why the Bible serves as a paradigmatic case for examining the narrative base of national constructions. Pardes calls for a consideration of the Bible's penetrating renditions of national ambivalence. She reads the rebellious conduct of the nation against the grain, probing the murmurings of the people, foregrounding their critique of the official line. The Bible does not provide a homogeneous account of nation formation, according to Pardes, but rather reveals points of tension between different perceptions of the nation's history and destiny. This fresh and beautifully rendered portrayal of the history of ancient Israel will be of vital interest to anyone interested in the Bible, in the interrelations of literature and history, in nationhood, in feminist thought, and in psychoanalysis.