Ancient Israel in Sinai : the evidence for the authenticity of the wilderness tradition
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Ancient Israel in Sinai : the evidence for the authenticity of the wilderness tradition
Oxford University Press, 2005
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
In his pathbreaking Israel in Egypt, James K. Hoffmeier refuted the claims of scholars who questioned the historical accuracy of the biblical account of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt. Analyzing a wealth of textual, archaeological, and geographical evidence, he put forth a thorough defense of the biblical tradition. Hoffmeier now turns his attention the Wilderness narratives of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, and to those minimalist scholars who deny the
plausibility of the biblical account. As director of the North Sinai Archaeological Project, Hoffmeier has led several excavations that have uncovered important new evidence supporting the Wilderness narratives. This volume will present these archaeological findings as part of a thorough examination of all
the evidence. The major focus of the book will be on the actual location of Mount Sinai, which some scholars have sought to locate in northern Arabia and not in the Sinai peninsula as traditionally thought. Hoffmeier's work will serve as a rebuttal to this and other challenges to the authenticity of the Wilderness narratives.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Kenneth A. Kitchen
Abbreviations
Chronological Charts
The Wilderness Tradition
The Wilderness Tradition and the Historian of Religion
Sinai: The Great and Terrible Wilderness
The Geography of the Exodus: Ramesses to the Sea
The Location of the Re(e)d Sea
The Mountain of God
From Egypt to Mt. Sinai: Traveling and Living in the Wilderness
The Sinai Legislation
Israel's Desert Sanctuary
Egyptian Personal Names and Other Egyptian Elements in the Exodus-Wilderness Narratives
The Wilderness Tradition and the Origin of Israel
Notes
Index
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