In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar

includes index and biblioraphy

Current revisionism and the Literature of the Old Testament......1 Was there an Exodus .............23 Back to basics : A holistic Approach to the Problem of the emergence of Ancient israel .......41 Histories and non-histories of Ancient israel : The question of the United monarchy ................65 Dating the succession narrative............95 The date of the Yahwist ....107 Was there a social Crisis in the Eighth century ?..........130 In search of Post-exilic Israel : Samaria After the Fall of the northern kingdom.........150 In search of he pre-exilic Isaih ...............181 Jeremiah Before the exile ...207 How many pre-exilic Psalms are There .............225 How much wisdom literature has its roots in the pre-exilic Period ......251 Is the covenant code and exilic Composition? A response to John van Seters .........272 Yahweh`s Asherah, Inclusive monitheism and the Question of Dating ........326 Mesopotamian Sources and Pre-exilic Israel ............352 Hebrew and west semitic inscriptions and pre-exilic Israel ..............366 Hebrew poetic structure as a Basis for Dating .............386