Between evidence and ideology : essays on the history of ancient Israel read at the joint meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oud Testamentisch Werkgezelschap, Lincoln, July 2009 / / edited by Bob Becking & Lester L. Grabbe.

• Superior document: Oudtestamentische studien = Old Testament studies, v. 59
• Author: Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en België
• TeilnehmendeR: Becking, Bob.; Grabbe, Lester L.; Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en Belgièe
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Oudtestamentische studiën ; d. 59.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The historiography of Ancient Israel is much debated. The various approaches are never void of ideology and some reckon more with the available evidence than others. This volume consists of a set of case-studies that reveal the difficulties that arise when trying to write a history as honestly as possible. This implies that both the archaeology of Ancient Palestine - the finds and their interrogation - as well as the Philosophy of History - their models and their implications - are discussed. The outcome is a variety of approaches that inform the reader of current views on the history of Ancient Israel.

Table of Contents

David between ideology and evidence / Bob Becking -- Mercator in the wilderness : Numbers 33 / John R. Bartlett -- Origins of Israel between history and ideology / Meindert Dijkstra -- The case of the corrupting consensus / Lester L. Grabbe -- Hasidisms and their militant ideologies : 1 and 2 Maccabees, Psalms 144 and 149 / Harm van Grol -- The Old Testament as a diachronic corpus / Marinus Koster -- Pharaoh Shishak's invasion of Palestine and the Exodus from Egypt / Andrew Mayes -- The Greek Esthers and the search for history : some preliminary observations / Jill Middlemass -- Does archaeology really deserve the status of a 'high court' in biblical historical research? / Nadav Na'aman -- Prophecy and history in the book of Judges / Klaas Spronk -- Resisting the past : ancient Israel in Western memory / Keith W. Whitelam.