Israel : ancient kingdom or late invention? /

Israel : ancient kingdom or late invention? / [print] Daniel I. Block, editor, Brian H. Cribb and Gregory S. Smith, associate editors. - Nashville, Tennessee : B and H Academic Group, (c)2008. - xxi, 346 pages : maps ; 23 cm

" ... the essays represent revised and updated versions of papers delivered at a conference in Louisville in January, 2004"--Page 1.



Israel, Ancient kingdom or late invention? / Daniel I. Block -- The value and limitations of the Bible and archaeology Contextual criticism as a framework for biblical interpretation North-West Semitic inscriptions and biblical interpretation From Joseph to David : Mari and Israelite pastoral traditions Major geographical issues in the accounts of the Exodus Slavery and slave laws in ancient Hatti and Israel Were the Israelites really Canaanites? / Alan R. Millard -- Syria and the Bible : the Luwian connection David and Solomon's Jerusalem : do the Bible and archaeology disagree? / Alan R. Millard -- Who were Israel's Transjordanian neighbors and how did they differ? / Gerald L. Mattingly -- Shalmaneser III and Israel Did the Israelites really learn their monotheism in Babylon? / Simon J. Sherwin -- Did Persian Zoroastrianism influence Judaism? / Edwin M. Yamauchi -- Interpreting the Bible as an ancient eastern document Alan R. Millard -- John M. Monson -- Joel Drinkard -- Daniel E. Fleming -- James K. Hoffmeier -- Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. -- Richard S. Hess -- K. Lawson Younger, Jr. -- John H. Walton.



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