Biblical Narratives, Archaeology and Historicity : Essays In Honour of Thomas L. Thompson (Paperback)

List of Figures List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction, Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano and Emanuel Pfoh The Publications of Thomas L. Thompson PART 1: METHOD Chapter 1. The City of David as a Palimpsest - Margreet L. Steiner, Independent Scholar, the Netherlands Chapter 2. Living in the Past? Keeping Up-To-Date in Ancient Near Eastern Studies - Raz Kletter, University of Helsinki, Finland Chapter 3. What People Want to Believe: Or Fighting Against 'Cultural Memory' - Niels Peter Lemche, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Chapter 4. The Need for a Comprehensive Sociology of Knowledge of Biblical and Archaeological Studies of the Southern Levant - Emanuel Pfoh, National University of La Plata, Argentina PART 2: HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGY Chapter 5. The Abraham and Esau-Jacob Stories in the Context of the Maccabean Period - Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano, University of Warsaw, Poland Chapter 6. Tell Balata (Shechem): An Archaeological and Historical Reassessment - Hamdan Taha, former Deputy of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Palestine, and Gerrit van der Kooij, University of Leiden, the Netherlands Chapter 7. 'Solomon' (Shalmaneser III) and the Emergence of Judah as an Independent Kingdom - Russell Gmirkin, Independent Scholar, USA Chapter 8. On the Pre-Exilic Gap between Israel and Judah - Etienne Nodet, Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise de Jerusalem, Israel Chapter 9. Perceptions of Israel's Past in Qumran Writings: Between Myth and Historiography, Jesper Høgenhaven, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Chapter 10. Is Josephus's John the Baptist Passage a Chronologically Dislocated Story of the Death of Hyrcanus II? - Greg Doudna, Independant Scholar, USA Chapter 11. Thompson's Jesus: Staring Down the Wishing Well - Jim West, Ming Hua Theological College, Hong Kong Chapter 12. The Qur'an as Biblical Rewriting - Mogens Muller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark PART 3: BIBLICAL NARRATIVES Chapter 13. The Food of Life and the Food of Death in Texts from the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East - Ingrid Hjelm, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Chapter 14. A Gate in Gaza: An Essay on the Reception of Tall Tales - Jack M. Sasson, Vanderbilt University, USA Chapter 15. Deborah's Topical Song: Remarks on the Gattung of Judges 5 - Bob Becking, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Chapter 16. How Jerusalem's Temple Was Aligned to Moses' Tabernacle: About the Historical Power of an Invented Myth - Rainer Albertz, University of Munster, Germany Chapter 17. Can the Book of Nehemiah Be Used as an Historical Source, and If So, of What? - Lisbeth S. Fried, University of Michigan, USA Chapter 18. Chronicles' Reshaping of Memories of Ancestors Populating Genesis - Ehud Ben Zvi, University of Alberta, Canada Chapter 19. The Book of Proverbs and Hesiod's Works and Days - Philippe Wajdenbaum, Independent Scholar, the Netherlands Chapter 20. The Villain 'Samaritan': The Samiri as the Other Moses in Qur'anic Exegesis, Joshua Sabih, University of Copenhagen Index of References Index of Authors