TY - BOOK AU - Block,Daniel Isaac AU - TI - Israel: ancient kingdom or late invention? SN - 9780805446791 AV - DS121.B651.I873 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Nashville, Tennessee PB - B and H Academic Group KW - Jews KW - History KW - To 586 B.C KW - Sources N1 - " ... the essays represent revised and updated versions of papers delivered at a conference in Louisville in January, 2004"--Page 1; 1 and indexes; Israel, Ancient kingdom or late invention? / Daniel I. Block --; The value and limitations of the Bible and archaeology; Alan R. Millard --; Contextual criticism as a framework for biblical interpretation; John M. Monson --; North-West Semitic inscriptions and biblical interpretation; Joel Drinkard --; From Joseph to David : Mari and Israelite pastoral traditions; Daniel E. Fleming --; Major geographical issues in the accounts of the Exodus; James K. Hoffmeier --; Slavery and slave laws in ancient Hatti and Israel; Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. --; Were the Israelites really Canaanites? / Alan R. Millard --; Syria and the Bible : the Luwian connection; Richard S. Hess --; 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; K. Lawson Younger, Jr. --; 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; John H. Walton; 2 ER -