Jerusalem In Ancient History And Tradition

by Thompson, Thomas L.

• ISBN13: 9780567083609
• ISBN10: 0567083608
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-27
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

An international team of leading historians, archaeologists and biblical scholars explore fresh perspectives on the history of ancient Jerusalem and its relationship to biblical tradition. Contributors include: Thomas L. Thompson, Michael Prior, Niels Peter Lemche, Margreet Steiner, Sara Mandell, John Strange, Lester Grabbe, Philip Davies, Thomas M. Bolin, Ingrid Hjelm, David Gunn and Keith Whitelam. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Thomas L. Thompson is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Copenhagen.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvi
Abbreviations	xviii
List of Contributors	xxi
An Introduction: Can a History of Ancient Jerusalem and Palestine be Written?	1	(15)
Thomas L. Thompson
A Moral Reading of the Bible in Jerusalem	16	(30)
Michael Prior
`House of David': The Tel Dan Inscription(s)	46	(22)
Niels Peter Lemche
Expanding Borders: The Development of Jerusalem in the Iron Age	68	(12)
Margreet Steiner
Rome, Syria and the Jerusalem High Priest: The International Bases of the High Priest's Rule of the Jerusalem City-State: 175--63 BCE	80	(17)
Sara Mandell
Herod and Jerusalem: The Hellenization of an Oriental City	97	(17)
John Strange
Jerusalem in the Time of the Kingdom of Judah	114	(31)
Firas Sawah
Ethnic Groups in Jerusalem	145	(19)
Lester L. Grabbe
From Zion to Zion: Jerusalem in the Dead Sea Scrolls	164	(7)
Philip R. Davies
The Making of the Holy City: On the Foundations of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible	171	(26)
Thomas M. Bolin
Brothers Fighting Brothers: Jewish and Samaritan Ethnocentrism in Tradition and History	197	(26)
Ingrid Hjelm
Holy War at the Center of Biblical Theology: Shalom and the Cleansing of Jerusalem	223	(35)
Thomas L. Thompson
`Next Year in Jerusalem': Bible, Identity and Myth on the Web	258	(14)
David M. Gunn
Imagining Jerusalem	272	(18)
Keith W. Whitelam
Index of References	290
Index of Authors