Even God cannot change the past : reflections on 17 years of the European seminar in historical methodology / edited by Lester L. Grabbe. [print]

Introduction Lester L. Grabbe Why start with the text? The fall of Samaria revisited Bob Becking Clio today and ancient Israelite history : some thoughts and observations at the closing session of the European seminar for historical methodology Ehud Ben Zvi 'Just the facts, ma'am!' : Reflections on the ESHM Philip R. Davies Vingt ans apres : a personal retrospective Ernst Axel Knauf The future of Israel's history Niels Peter Lemche The problem of Israel in the history of the South Levant Thomas L. Thompson 1997 Session : from the volume, Leading Captivity Captive (1998) The exilic period as an urgent case for a historical reconstruction without the biblical text : the neo-babylonian royal inscriptions as a 'primary source' Rainer Albertz 2008 session in Lisbon on the oral, the written, and cultural memory Cultural memory in practice : Ezra and Nehemiah Philip R. Davies The oral, the written, the forgotten, the remembered : studies in historiography and their implications for ancient Israel Lester L. Grabbe 2011 session in Thessaloniki on the Maccabees and Hasmonaeans The relation between Samaria and Jerusalem in the early maccabean period revisited : a case study about the reception on Phinehas Tobias Funke From Philadelphus to Hyrcanus : an alternative approach to the formation and canonization of the 'deuteronomistic historiography' Philippe Guillaume Joshua Maccabaeus : another reading of 1 Maccabees 5 Ernst Axel Knauf Seventeen years of the European seminar in historical methodology : a personal view of the results Lester L. Grabbe.

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