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 
<br/><br/> " ... the essays represent revised and updated versions of papers delivered at a conference in Louisville in January, 2004"--Page 1. 
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<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780805446791 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jews--History--To 586 B.C.<br/>Jews--History--Sources.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS121.B651.I873 2008 DS121