Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History

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By Thomas L. Thompson

Series: Copenhagen International Seminar

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Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History by Thomas L. Thompson explores the challenges of writing an objective history of Palestine through biblical literature using historical-critical methods and biblical archaeology. The book compiles key essays that apply comparative and formalistic approaches to reveal the allegorical and mythical elements in Old Testament narratives from Genesis to Nehemiah. It provides a detailed examination of significant shifts in understanding biblical traditions alongside developments in the archaeology and history of Palestine, situating the biblical narrative within the broader context of ancient Near Eastern literature from the Bronze Age onwards.
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This text is ideal for readers interested in religious studies, biblical scholarship, archaeology, and the history of the ancient Near East. Academics, students, and thoughtful readers seeking a critical and scholarly approach to the Bible and Palestine's history will find this work particularly valuable.

'Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History' brings together key essays on historical method and the archaeology and history of Palestine.

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Modern biblical scholarship's commitment to the historical-critical method in its efforts to write a history of Israel has created the central and unavoidable problem of writing an objective and critical history of Palestine through the biblical literature with the methods of Biblical Archaeology. Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History brings together key essays on historical method and the archaeology and history of Palestine.

The essays employ comparative and formalistic techniques to illuminate the allegorical and mythical in Old Testament narrative traditions from Genesis to Nehemiah. In so doing, the volume presents a detailed review of central and radical changes in both our understanding of biblical traditions and the archaeology and history of Palestine.

The study offers an analysis of Biblical narrative as rooted in ancient Near Eastern literature since the Bronze Age.

Series: Copenhagen International Seminar

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Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History

By Thomas L. Thompson

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ISBN: 9781908049957

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 January 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

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Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 352

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History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Series: Copenhagen International Seminar Thomas L. Thompson

About the Author

Thomas L Thompson is Professor emeritus at the University of Copenhagen and author of many works including The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David, Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives: The Quest for the Historical Abraham, Bible in History: How Writers Create the Past and Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written & Archaeological Sources.

Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History