Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Joseph and Moses narratives 4: narratives about the origins of Israel
- 2 Historical notes on Israel's conquest of Palestine: a peasants' rebellion
- 3 The background of the patriarchs: a reply to William Dever and Malcolm Clark
- 4 Conflict themes in the Jacob narratives
- 5 History and tradition: a response to J. B. Geyer
- 6 Text, context, and referent in Israelite historiography
- 7 Palestinian pastoralism and Israel's origins
- 8 The intellectual matrix of early biblical narrative: inclusive monotheism in Persian period Palestine
- 9 How Yahweh became God: Exodus 3 and 6 and the heart of the Pentateuch
- 10 4Q Testimonia and Bible composition: a Copenhagen Lego hypothesis
- 11 Why talk about the past? The Bible, epic and historiography
- 12 Historiography in the Pentateuch: twenty-five years after Historicity
- 13 The messiah epithet in the Hebrew Bible
- 14 Kingship and the wrath of God: or teaching humility
- 15 From the mouth of babes, strength: Psalm 8 and the Book of Isaiah
- 16 Job 29: biography or parable?
- 17 Mesha and questions of historicity
- 18 Imago dei: a problem in the discourse of the Pentateuch
- 19 Changing perspectives on the history of Palestine
- Index of biblical references
- Index of authors
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Acknowledgments
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Joseph and Moses narratives 4: narratives about the origins of Israel
- 2 Historical notes on Israel's conquest of Palestine: a peasants' rebellion
- 3 The background of the patriarchs: a reply to William Dever and Malcolm Clark
- 4 Conflict themes in the Jacob narratives
- 5 History and tradition: a response to J. B. Geyer
- 6 Text, context, and referent in Israelite historiography
- 7 Palestinian pastoralism and Israel's origins
- 8 The intellectual matrix of early biblical narrative: inclusive monotheism in Persian period Palestine
- 9 How Yahweh became God: Exodus 3 and 6 and the heart of the Pentateuch
- 10 4Q Testimonia and Bible composition: a Copenhagen Lego hypothesis
- 11 Why talk about the past? The Bible, epic and historiography
- 12 Historiography in the Pentateuch: twenty-five years after Historicity
- 13 The messiah epithet in the Hebrew Bible
- 14 Kingship and the wrath of God: or teaching humility
- 15 From the mouth of babes, strength: Psalm 8 and the Book of Isaiah
- 16 Job 29: biography or parable?
- 17 Mesha and questions of historicity
- 18 Imago dei: a problem in the discourse of the Pentateuch
- 19 Changing perspectives on the history of Palestine
- Index of biblical references
- Index of authors
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- Biblical Narrative and Palestine's HistoryChanging Perspectives, pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2013