The Hebrew Bible and the History Critical Readings

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Studies in Methodology Some Aspects of Working with the textual Sources ..............3 The Strange fear of the Bible: Some reflections on the Bibliophobia in Recent ancient israelite historiography .................24 Is it possible to write a History of Israel without relying on the Hebrew bible?.................31 Reading the Bible Historically: The historian`s Approach ..................39 Does archaeology really deserve the status of a High court in Biblical Historical Research? ............56 Malleability and its limits: Sennacherib`s Campaign against judah as a Case-Study ............72 On the problems of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic Israelite history .......100 Text, Context and Referent in Israelite historiography ......116 The big max: Review of a Biblical History of Israel, by Iain Provan, V. Philips long, and Tremper Longman III........138 Who is the Prophet talking About, Himself or Someone else , A response to Lester grabbe`s Review of a Biblical History of Israel ...........156 2. The biginnings of Israel and the Rise of the Monarchy The geography of the Exodus ..........185 History in Joshua ..............203 History of Judges .........213 Saul ben kish in History and tradition ..............222 The mighty men of Israel : 1-2 Samuel and Historicity .............236 Sources and composition in the history of David ........256 David and the Philostine: Literature and history ............279 King solomon`s Copper supply ........293 The socio-political shadow cast by the biblical Solomon .........311 Biblical Jerusalem : An archaeological Assessment .............352 Secondary sources also Deserve to be Historically evaluated : The case of the United monarchy ..................367 3. The Question of the Reform under Josiah Josiah and the law book ...........391 Why a Reform like Josiah`s Must have happened ........404 Was there a Cult reform under king josiah? The case for a Well- Ground minimum ................425 4. Case Study : The problem of Nehemiah`s Wall Geographical lists in Ezra and Nehemiah in the Lght of Archaeology: Persian Or Hellenistic ? ...................475 Jerusalem between two Periods of Greatness: The size and status of the City in the Babylonian, Persian and early hellenistic Periods ...................499 5 Seventeen years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology: The Results .............521