Biblical history and Israel's past : the changing study of the bible and history

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Biblical history and Israel's past : the changing study of the bible and history

Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle

William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company, c2011

  • pbk.

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Bibliography: p. 476-509

Includes index

Contents of Works

  • The Patriarchs and Matriarchs
  • Israel's emergence
  • The monarchical period part 1 : the changing evaluation of sources
  • The monarchical period part 2 : the first kings and the beginnings of permanent government (the united monarchy)
  • The monarchical period part 3 : the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah
  • The exilic or neo-Babylonian period
  • The postexilic or Persian period
  • What is the future of Israel's past?

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Although scholars have for centuries primarily been interested in using the study of ancient Israel to explain, illuminate, and clarify the biblical story, Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle describe how scholars today seek more and more to tell the story of the past on its own terms, drawing from both biblical and extrabiblical sources to illuminate ancient Israel and its neighbors without privileging the biblical perspective. Biblical History and Israel's Past provides a comprehensive survey of how study of the Old Testament and the history of Israel has changed since the middle of the twentieth century. Moore and Kelle discuss significant trends in scholarship, trace the development of ideas since the 1970s, and summarize major scholars, viewpoints, issues, and developments.

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