The Land that I Will Show You Essays on the History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honor of J. Maxwell Miller

by Dearman, J. Andrew; Graham, M. Patrick

• ISBN13: 9781841272573
• ISBN10: 1841272574
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-09
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

A collection of seventeen articles by colleagues and former students of Professor J. Maxwell Miller who taught at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. The papers deal with the history, chronology, geography, archaeology and epigraphy of ancient Israel and its setting in the Levant, and range from broad methodological discussions of historiography to focused analyses of individual texts or historical issues. A review of Miller's career and a select bibliography of his publications are also included.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
Abbreviations	9	(4)
List of Contributors	13	(3)
Part I J. Maxwell Miller
Scholar and Teacher: A Sketch	16	(22)
J. Maxwell Miller
J. Andrew Dearman
Part II History
Shifting the Gaze: Historigraphic Constraints in Chronicles and their Implications	38	(23)
Ehud Ben Zvi
A Projection for Israelite Historiography: With a Comparison Between Qohelet and Nagarjuna	61	(8)
Martin J. Buss
Did Saulide-Davidic Rivalry Resurface in Early Persian Yehud?	69	(23)
Diana Edelman
The Beginning of the Regnal Year in Israel and Judah	92	(4)
John H. Hayes
The Year of Josiah's Death: 609 or 610 BCE?	96	(8)
Paul K. Hooker
John H. Hayes
The Rise of the House of Jehu	104	(15)
Stuart A. Irvine
Solomon at Megiddo?	119	(16)
Ernst Axel Knauf
Samsi-ilu and the Realpolitik of Israel and Aram-Damascus in the Eighth Century BCE	135	(17)
Jeffrey K. Kuan
The Typology of the Davidic Covenant	152	(27)
Steven L. McKenzie
Absalom's Daughter: An Essay in Vestige Historiography	179	(19)
Jack M. Sasson
Part III Archaeology and Geography
New Evidence on Edom in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods	198	(16)
Piotr Bienkowski
Assyrian Influence and Changing Technologies at Tall Jawa, Jordan	214	(25)
P.M. Michele Daviau
The Intellectual, the Archaeologist and the Bible	239	(16)
Philip R. Davies
The Geography of the Exodus	255	(23)
John Van Seters
Part IV Manuscripts and Epigraphy
The Qumran Scrolls and Textual Reconstruction	278	(9)
Phillip R. Callaway
Mesha' and Syntax	287	(21)
Anson F. Rainey
Index of References	308	(8)
Index of Authors	316