A Biblical History of Israel
Title | A Biblical History of Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Iain William Provan |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780664220907 |
In this much-anticipated textbook, three respected biblical scholars have written a history of ancient Israel that takes the biblical text seriously as an historical document. While also considering nonbiblical sources and being attentive to what disciplines like archaeology, anthropology, and sociology suggest about the past, the authors do so within the context and paradigm of the Old Testament canon, which is held as the primary document for reconstructing Israel's history. In Part One, the authors set the volume in context and review past and current scholarly debate about learning Israel's history, negating arguments against using the Bible as the central source. In Part Two, they seek to retell the history itself with an eye to all the factors explored in Part One.
The Christian's Biblical Guide to Understanding Israel
Title | The Christian's Biblical Guide to Understanding Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Hershey |
Publisher | Charisma Media |
Total Pages | 114 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1616384778 |
Gain a richer understanding of God's plan for Israel.
Life in Biblical Israel
Title | Life in Biblical Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Philip J. King |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
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"Based on the latest research and presents a vivid description of ancient Isreal"--P. [2] of cover.
Historical and Biblical Israel
Title | Historical and Biblical Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Reinhard Gregor Kratz |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0198728778 |
At the center of this book lies a fundamental yet unanswered question: under which historical and sociological conditions and in what manner the Hebrew Bible became an authoritative tradition, that is, holy scripture and the canon of Judaism as well as Christianity. Reinhard G. Kratz answers this very question by distinguishing between historical and biblical Israel. This foundational and, for the arrangement of the book, crucial distinction affirms that the Israel of biblical tradition, i.e. the sacred history (historia sacra) of the Hebrew Bible, cannot simply be equated with the history of Israel and Judah. Thus, Kratz provides a synthesis of both the Israelite and Judahite history and the genesis and development of biblical tradition in two separate chapters, though each area depends directly and inevitably upon the other. These two distinct perspectives on Israel are then confronted and correlated in a third chapter, which constitutes an area intimately connected with the former but generally overlooked apart from specialized inquiries: those places and archives that either yielded Jewish documents and manuscripts (Elephantine, Al-Yahudu, Qumran) or are associated conspicuously with the tradition of the Hebrew Bible (Mount Gerizim, Jerusalem, Alexandria). Here, the various epigraphic and literary evidence for the history of Israel and Judah comes to the fore. Such evidence sometimes represents Israel's history; at other times it reflects its traditions; at still others it reflects both simultaneously. The different sources point to different types of Judean or Jewish identity in Persian and Hellenistic times.
A History of Biblical Israel
Title | A History of Biblical Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Ernst Axel Knauf |
Publisher | Equinox Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781781791417 |
Combines experience gained through decades of teaching biblical exegesis and courses on the history of ancient Israel, and of on-going involvement in biblical archaeology. The volume covers the history of 'Biblical Israel' through its fragmentation in the Hellenistic and Roman periods until 136 CE.
Everyday Law in Biblical Israel
Title | Everyday Law in Biblical Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Westbrook |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0664234976 |
Introduction -- Sources -- Litigation -- Status and family -- Crimes and delicts -- Property and inheritance -- Contracts -- Conclusion
Windows Into Old Testament History
Title | Windows Into Old Testament History PDF eBook |
Author | V. Philips Long |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780802839626 |
A team of international authors builds a case for a positive appraisal of biblical Israel. Approaching the authenticity of Scripture from several angles--philosophical, archaeological, and literary--the contributors attack the issues involved in this controversial area.