The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition
Cambridge University Press, 7/30/2012
EAN 9781107024311, ISBN10: 1107024315
Hardcover, 320 pages, 24 x 16.1 x 2.7 cm
Language: English
The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible undertakes a comprehensive re-evaluation of the Bible's primary narrative in Genesis through Kings as it relates to history. It divides the core textual traditions along political lines that reveal deeply contrasting assumptions, an approach that places biblical controversies in dialogue with anthropologically informed archaeology. Starting from close study of selected biblical texts, the work moves toward historical issues that may be illuminated by both this material and a larger range of textual evidence. The result is a synthesis that breaks away from conventional lines of debate in matters relating to ancient Israel and the Bible, setting an agenda for future engagement of these fields with wider study of antiquity.
Part I. Israel and Judah
1. Why Israel?
2. Israel without Judah
Part II. Israelite Content in the Bible
3. Writing from Judah
4. An association of peoples in the land (the book of Judges)
5. The family of Jacob
6. Collective Israel and its kings
7. Moses and the conquest of eastern Israel
8. Joshua and Ai
9. Benjamin
10. Israelite writers on early Israel
Part III. Collaborative Politics
11. Collaborative politics
12. Outside the Near East
13. The Amorite backdrop to ancient Israel
14. Israel's Aramean contemporaries
Part IV. Israel in History
15. The power of a name
ethnicity and political identity
16. Before Israel
17. Israel and Canaan in the 13th–10th centuries
18. Israel and its kings
19. Genuine (versus invented) tradition.