Overview

An international team of historians, archaeologists and biblical scholars discuss new perspectives on the archaeology, history and biblical traditions of ancient Jerusalem and examine their ethical, literary, historical and theological relationships. Essays range from a discussion of the Hellenization of Jerusalem in the time of Herod to an examination of its identity and myth on the Internet, while Thomas L. Thompson's informed Introduction queries whether a true history of ancient Jerusalem and Palestine can in fact ever be written. Contributors include: Thomas L. Thompson, Michael Prior, Niels Peter Lemche, Margreet Steiner, Sara Mandell, John Strange, Firas Sawwah, Lester Grabbe, Philip Davies, Thomas M. Bolin, Ingrid Hjelm, David Gunn and Keith Whitelam.

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Author:   Thomas L. Thompson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T.& T.Clark Ltd
Edition:   illustrated edition
Volume:   v. 381
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.462kg
ISBN:  

9780567083609

ISBN 10:   0567083608
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 May 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

1. Thomas L. Thompson, Introduction: Can A History of Ancient Jerusalem and Palestine be Written? 2. Michael Prior, A Moral Reading of the Bible in Jerusalem. 3. Niels Peter Lemche, House of David. 4. Margreet Steiner, Expanding Borders: The Development of Jerusalem in the Iron Age. 5. Sara Mandell, Rome, Syria and the Jerusalem High Priest: The International bases of the High Priest's Rule of the Jerusalem City-Sate: 175--63 BCE. 6. John Strange, Herod and Jerusalem - the Hellenization of an Oriental City. 7. Firas Sawwah, Jerusalem in the Time of the Kingdom of Judaea. 8. Lester Grabbe, Ethnic Groups in Jerusalem. 9. Philip Davies, From Zion to Zion: Jerusalem in the Dead Sea Scrolls. 10. Thomas M. Bolin, The Making of the Holy City: On the Foundations of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible. 11. Ingrid Hjelm, Brothers Fighting Brothers: Jewish and Samaritan Ethnocentrism in Tradition and History. 12. Thomas L. Thompson, Holy War at the Center of Biblical Theology: Shalom and the Cleansing of Jerusalem. 13. David Gunn, Next Year in Jerusalem : Bible, Identity, and Myth on the Web. 14. Keith Whitelam, Imagining Jerusalem.

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Thomas L. Thompson is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Copenhagen.

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