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Pre-Exilic Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology
Integrating Text and Artefact
Pre-Exilic Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology
Integrating Text and Artefact
Description
The nature of historical and archaeological research is such that biblical and archaeological evidence should both be taken into account so that we can attain a more reliable reconstruction of ancient Israel. Nowadays we are faced with numerous reconstructions which are very often diametrically opposed to each other owing to the different assumptions of scholars. An examination of certain issues of epistemology in the current climate of postmodernism, shows that the latter is self-defeating when it claims that we cannot attain any true knowledge about the past.
Illustrations are taken from the history of pre-exilic Israel; however, the indissoluble unity of text and artefact is made clearer and more concrete through a detailed case study about the location of the house of Rahab as depicted in Joshua 2: 15, irrespective of whether this text is historical or not. Text and artefact should work hand in hand even when narratives turn out to be fictional, since thus there emerges a clearer picture of the external world which the author would have had in mind.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Archaeology as a Specialized Form of History
Chapter 3: An Indissoluble Unity in Diversity
Chapter 4: Some Historiographic Insights: Mainly Classical
Chapter 5: To Know or Not to Know
Chapter 6: Sounding the Depths: Archaeological and Textual Stratigraphy
Chapter 7: Micro Biblical Archaeology: A Closer 'Reading' of Text and Artefact
Chapter 8: Macro Biblical Archaeology: Early Traditions in Later Compositions
Chapter 9: Conclusions
Bibliography
Index of Biblical and Classical References
Index of Modern Authors
Subject Index
Product details
| Published | 22 Dec 2011 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 144 |
| ISBN | 9780567317650 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Series | The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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