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Lester Grabbe is probably the most distinguished, and certainly the most prolific of historians of ancient Judaism, the author of several standard treatments and the founder of the European Seminar on Historical methodology. He has continued to set the bar for Hebrew Bible scholarship. In this collection some thirty of his distinguished colleagues and friends offer their reflections on the practice and theory of history writing, on the current controversies and topics of major interest. This collection provides an opportunity for scholars of high caliber to consider groundbreaking ideas in light of Grabbe's scholarship and influence. This festschrift offers the reader a unique volume of essays to explore and consider the far-reaching influence of Grabbe on the field of Biblical studies as a whole.

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Author:   Professor Philip R. Davies (University of Sheffield, UK) ,  Diana Vikander Edelman (University of Oslo, Norway) ,  Diana Vikander Edelman ,  Claudia V Camp (Texas Christian University USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Volume:   530
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780567546203

ISBN 10:   0567546209
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   27 March 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations THE EDITORS Introduction HANS BARSTAD History and Memory. Some Reflections on the 'Memory Debate' in Relation to the Hebrew Bible NIELS PETER LEMCHE Postcolonial Studies and the Study of Israelite History. NADAV NAAMAN Text and Archaeology in a Period of Great Decline: The Contribution of the Amarna Letters to the Debate on the Historicity of Nehemiah's Wall RAINER ALBERTZ Secondary Sources Also Deserve to be Historically Evaluated: The Case of the United Monarchy THOMAS L. THOMPSON Reiterative Narrative and the Problem of the Exile ANDRÉ LEMAIRE Hazor in the Second Half of the 10th Century BCE: Historiography, Archaeology and History MARIO LIVERANI The Chronology of the Biblical Fairy-Tale EHUD BEN ZVI The Story of Micaiah, son of Imlah: What Could the Ancient Intended Readers Learn from It? DIANA V. EDELMAN Of Priests and Prophets and Interpreting the Past: The Egyptian Hm-Ntr and Hry-Hbt and the Judahite nabi' HUGH G.M. WILLIAMSON Welcome Home ODED LIPSCHITS Here is a Man Whose Name is ?ema?' (Zechariah 6:12) BOB BECKING Drought, Hunger, and Redistribution: A Social-Economic Reading of Nehemiah 5 JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP Footnotes to the Rescript of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:11-26) GARY N. KNOPPERS Aspects of Samaria's Religious Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period E. AXEL KNAUF Biblical References to Judean Settlement in Eretz Israel (and Beyond) in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods PHILIP R. DAVIES The Hebrew Canon and the Origins of Judaism GEORGE J. BROOKE What Makes a Text Historical? Assumptions behind the Classification of Some Dead Sea Scrolls

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Philip R. Davies is Professor of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield, UK. Diana V. Edelman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield.

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