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    Enquire of the Former Age by Grabbe, Lester L.;

    Ancient Historiography and Writing the History of Israel

    Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number NIPPOD
    • Publisher T&T Clark
    • Date of Publication 23 May 2013
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780567575302
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Weight 431 g
    • Language English
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    When methodology relating to the history of ancient Israel is discussed, the issue of historiography is frequently injected into the debate. This includes both principles of writing history from a modern perspective and also historiography as it relates to ancient writings. The first part of this most recent volume in the European Seminar in Historical Methodology series contains essays on historiography, including such well-known scholars as Ehud Ben Zvi, Philip Davies, and Axel Knauf.

    The second part is made up of reviews of histories of Israel or related works by such writers as William Dever, Baruch Halpern, Steven McKenzie, Mario Liverani, Alberto Soggin, Lester Grabbe, Jens Bruun Kofoed, and Iain Provan, V. Phillips Long, and Tremper Longman, III. Reviewers include Rainer Albertz, Niels Peter Lemche, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Philip Davies, Bob Becking, Ehud Ben Zvi, and Lester Grabbe. The original authors had the opportunity to respond to the reviews, while the editor provides an introduction that summarizes the various contributions and also a conclusion that provides personal reflections on the debate.

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    Table of Contents:

    I. INTRODUCTION

    LESTER L. GRABBE, Introduction



    II. RESEARCH PAPERS
    EHUD BEN ZVI, General Observations on Ancient Israelite Histories in their Ancient Contexts
    PHILIP R. DAVIES, The Origin of Biblical Israel
    E. AXEL KNAUF, Against Historiography--in Defence of History
    CHRISTINE MITCHELL, Why the Hebrew Bible Might Be All Greek to Me: On the Use of the Xenophontic Corpus in Discussions of Biblical Literature
    LUKASZ NIESIOLOWSKI-SPANÒ, (Pseudo-)Eupolemus and Shechem: Methodology Enabling the Use of Hellenistic Jewish Historians' Work in Biblical Studies



    III. BOOK REVIEWS AND RESPONSES
    REVIEW OF: William G. Dever, What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? (2001) and Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come from? (2003)
    RAINER ALBERTZ, Review of William G. Dever
    WILLIAM G. DEVER, A Response to Rainer Albertz
    REVIEW OF: Lester L. Grabbe, A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period 1: Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah (2004)
    EHUD BEN ZVI, 'From My Corner of the Field': A Preliminary Response to L. L. Grabbe, A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period:Volume 1. Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah
    LESTER L. GRABBE, Damn, I Thought They'd Never Notice: Response to Ehud Ben Zvi
    REVIEW OF: Jens Bruun Kofoed, Text and History: Historiography and the Study of the Biblical Text (2005)
    NIELS PETER LEMCHE, Evading the Facts: Notes on Jens Bruun Kofoed: Text and History: Historiography and the Study of the Biblical Text (2005)
    JENS BRUUN KOFOED, Factualising the Evasion
    REVIEW OF: Mario Liverani, Oltre la Bibbia: Storia antica di Israele (2003)/Israel's History and the History of Israel (2005)
    JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP, A Different Kind of Minimalism: Mario Liverani's Oltre la Bibbia
    PHILIP R. DAVIES, Way Beyond the Bible--but Far Enough?
    MARIO LIVERANI, Response
    REVIEW OF: Steven L. McKenzie, King David: A Biography (2000), and Baruch Halpern, David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (2001)
    BOB BECKING, David at the Threshold of History
    BARUCH HALPERN, David and the Historical Imagination: A Counterpoint in Evocation
    REVIEW OF: Iain Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman III, A Biblical History of Israel (2003)
    LESTER L. GRABBE, The Big Max: Review of A Biblical History of Israel by Iain Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman III
    IAIN PROVAN, V. PHILIPS LONG, and TREMPER LONGMAN III, 'Who Is the Prophet Talking about, Himself or Someone Else?' (Acts 8.34): A Response to Lester Grabbe's Review of A Biblical History of Israel
    REVIEW OF: J. Alberto Soggin, Storia d'Israele/A History of Israel (1984-2002)
    LESTER L. GRABBE, Alberto Soggin`s Storia d'Israele: Exemplifying Twenty Years of Debate and Changing Trends in Thinking



    IV. CONCLUSIONS



    LESTER L. GRABBE, Reflections on the Discussion

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