Full Description
The essays collected in this volume focus on methodological and historical topics related to the study of the history of ancient Israel. Contributors offer readers new readings of disputed texts, new methodological tools for study of the ancient world inhabited by an entity called aIsraela, and a variety of reinterpretations of biblical texts. Contributors include Thomas L. Thompson, Philip Davies, Niels Peter Lemche, Etienne Nodet, Mario Liverani, and many other leading academics.
Contents
Editorial Preface Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano, Chiara Peri, Jim West 1. Giovanni Garbini and Minimalism Thomas L. Thompson, University of Copenhagen 2. G. Garbini and the Poetry of Leah Goldberg Francesco Bianchi, University of Turin 3. "To Each His Own Job." On Job 42:1-6 Thomas Bolin, St Norbert College 4. The Siloam Tunnel Revisited Philip Davies, University of Sheffield 5. Hos 2:2 and the Dating of the Book of Hosea Giovanni Deiana, Pontifical Urbanian University 6. Beyond Garbini's Anti-Mosaic Pentateuch: Nehushtan as Literary Tie between the Torah and the Historical Books Philippe Guillaume, University of Berne 7. "When Dreams Come True": Jerusalem/Hierosolyma and Jewish Nationalism in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods Ingrid Hjelm, University of Copenhagen 8. The Same Old Story Niels Peter Lemche, University of Copenhagen 9. Toponymy Riddles Mario Liverani, University of Rome "La Sapienza" 10. Dividing the image of God: the creation of man and woman in Genesis Caterina Moro, Independent scholar 11. Farewell to the 'Blind and Lame' (2 Sam. 5:6-10) Lukasz Niesiolowski- Spano 12. From Moses to the Essenes Etiene Nodet, Ecole Biblique 13. A view from the West: The relationship between Phoenicia and "colonial" worlds in the Persian period Ida Oggiano, Pontificio Istituto Biblico and Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico 14. A couple of stone disks or simply a pair of disks? About the Hebrew word obnayim (Exodus 1:16; Jeremiah 18:3) Fabrizio Pennacchietti, University of Turin 15. Jonah and the triffild. A suggestion for the qiqayon Chiara Peri 16. On Finding Myth and History in the Bible Emanuel Pfoh, National University of La Plata 17. "Historical" Israel and "biblical" Israel, or ethnicity as a symbol Gian Luigi Prato, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tre 18. Ethnicity and the Bible: Multiple Judaisms Thomas L. Thompson 19. Correspondence Jim West
