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9780415194075

The Creation of History in Ancient Israel

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415194075

  • ISBN10:

    0415194075

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1998-07-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Much of the Hebrew Bible narrates what it claims to be the history of Israel. However, a close reading of the biblical text in junction with other literary and archaeological evidence indicates that the "history" provided by the Hebrew Bible is frequently inaccurate or untrue. Marc Zvi Brettler explores ways of reading the biblical texts if they are not read as history. Through in-depth analysis of texts from the Book of Chronicles, Genesis, Deuteronomy, Judges and Samuel, Brettler shows how the biblical historians were influenced by four key factors: typology, interpretation of earlier texts, satire and ideology.The Creation of History in Ancient Israeldemonstrates how the historian can start to piece together the history of ancient Israel using the Hebrew Bible as a source.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Abbreviationsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
Defining History, Ideology and Literaturep. 8
Chronicles as a Model for Biblical Historyp. 20
The Typologies of Genesisp. 48
Deuteronomy as Interpretationp. 62
The Ehud Story as Satirep. 79
Ideology in the Book of Samuelp. 91
Text in a Telp. 112
Conclusionp. 135
Notesp. 145
Select Bibliographyp. 223
Index of Subjectsp. 231
Index of Modern Authorsp. 236
Index of Citations from the Hebrew Biblep. 245
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