By Niels Peter Lemche
Niels Peter Lemche focuses on the way Israelites understood themselves at different points in history--before, within, and after the monarchy. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Israel's rich history.Volumes in the ...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 11/1/1998
ISBN: 9780664227272
Format: 6x9
Pages: 260
By Douglas A. Knight
From leading Old Testament scholar Douglas A. Knight comes the latest volume in WJK's Library of Ancient Israel series. Using socio-anthropological theory and archaeological evidence, Knight argues that while the laws in the Hebrew Bible tend to refl...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 8/12/2011
ISBN: 9780664221447
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 328
By Philip J. King, Lawrence E. Stager
This special-edition volume of the Library of Ancient Israel, based on the latest research, presents a vivid description of the world of Ancient Israel, covering such topics as domestic life, the means of existence, cultural expression, and religious...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1/1/2002
ISBN: 9780664221485
Format: 7 X 10
Pages: 440
Ancient Israelite Literature
By Susan Niditch
This book is an essential resource for understanding the question of the Bible's relationship to orality. Susan Niditch offers a strong argument for the continuity of the literature of the Israelites. She helps the modern reader look at the Bible as ...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 10/1/1996
ISBN: 9780664227241
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 184
By Norman K. Gottwald
In this volume, Norman Gottwald reconstructs the politics of ancient Israel within the larger political environment of the ancient Near East. He questions the prevailing view that the Hebrew Bible, supported by archeological evidence when necessary, ...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2/1/2007
ISBN: 9780664232344
Format: 6x9
Pages: 388
By Paula M. McNutt
Focusing on Israelite history from the tribal period through the time of Persian domination, Paula McNutt employs a social-scientific perspective to examine recent reconstructions of the social and cultural contexts that nurtured the literature of th...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 12/1/1999
ISBN: 9780666422265
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 300
By Patrick D. Miller
Patrich D. Miller investigates the role religion played in the family, village, tribe, and nation-state of ancient Israel. He situates Israel's religion in context where a variety of social forces affected beliefs, and where popular cults openly comp...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2/1/2007
ISBN: 9780664232375
Format: 6x9
Pages: 356
Religious and Intellectual Leadership in Ancient Israel
By Joseph Blenkinsopp
In this first volume of the Library of Ancient Israel series, Joseph Blenkinsopp investigates three forms of biblical Israel's intellectual and religious leadership: the sage, the priest, and the prophet. The people who occupied these roles were dire...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 9/1/1995
ISBN: 9780664226749
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 204
The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures
By Philip R. Davies
Scribes and Schools is an examination of the processes which led to the canonization of the Hebrew Bible. Philip Davies sheds light on the social reasons for the development of the canon and in so doing presents a clear picture of how the Bible came ...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 3/1/1998
ISBN: 9780664227289
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 232