Ahab agonistes : the rise and fall of the Omri dynasty

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Ahab agonistes : the rise and fall of the Omri dynasty

edited by Lester L. Grabbe

(Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies, 421 . European Seminar in Historical Methodology / editor, Lester L. Grabbe ; 6)

T&T Clark, c2007

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"The European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History ... had its sixth meeting in Rome in 2001, on the topic of the rise and fall of the Omride dynasty"--P. [3]

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Description

The European Seminar in Historical Methodology is committed to debating issues surrounding the history of ancient Israel and Judah with the aim of developing methodological principles for writing a history of the period. In this particular session the topic chosen was the Omride dynasty - its rise and fall - and the subsequent Jehu dynasty, down to the fall of Samaria to the Assyrians. Participants discuss such topics as the dating of prophetic texts, the house of Ahab in Chronicles, the Tel Dan inscription, the Mesha inscription, the Jezebel tradition, the archaeology of Iron IIB, the relationship between the biblical text and contemporary sources, and the nature of the Omride state. The volume incidentally gives a reasonably comprehensive treatment of the main sources, issues, debates, and secondary literature on this period of Israel's history. An introductory chapter summarizes the individual papers and also the relevant section of Mario Liverani's recent history of the period. A concluding 'Reflections on the Debate' summarizes the issues raised in the papers and provides a perspective on the discussion.

Table of Contents

  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • LESTER L. GRABBE
  • Introduction
  • II. ARTICLES
  • HANS M. BARSTAD
  • Can Prophetic Texts Be Dated? Amos 1-2 as an Example
  • EHUD BEN ZVI
  • The House of Omri/Ahab in Chronicles
  • LESTER L. GRABBE
  • The Kingdom of Israel from Omri to the Fall of Samaria: If We Had Only the Bible...
  • ERNST AXEL KNAUF
  • Was Omride Israel a Sovereign State?
  • INGO KOTTSIEPER
  • The Tel Dan Inscription (KAI 310) and the Political Relations between Aram-Damascus and Israel in the First Half of the First Millennium BCE
  • ANDRE LEMAIRE
  • The Mesha Stele and the Omri Dynasty
  • NADAV NA'AMAN
  • Royal Inscription versus Prophetic Story: Mesha's Rebellion according to Biblical and Moabite Historiography
  • HERMANN MICHAEL NIEMANN
  • Royal Samaria - Capital or Residence? or: The Foundation of the City of Samaria by Sargon II
  • DAGMAR PRUIN
  • What Is in a Text? - Searching for Jezebel
  • THOMAS L. THOMPSON
  • A Testimony of the Good King: Reading the Mesha Stele
  • DAVID USSISHKIN
  • Samaria, Jezreel and Megiddo: Royal Centres of Omri and Ahab
  • DAVID A. WARBURTON
  • The Architecture of Israelite Temples
  • III. CONCLUSIONS
  • LESTER L. GRABBE
  • Reflections on the Discussion.

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