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The Biography of Ancient Israel
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Ilana Pardes
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-04-03 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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The nation--particularly in Exodus and Numbers--is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary po
The Biography of Ancient Israel
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Ilana Pardes
Categories: Bible
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In the Bible, Pardes suggests, history and literature go hand in hand more explicitly than in modern historiography, which is why the Bible serves as a paradigm
Families in Ancient Israel
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Leo G. Perdue
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

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Four respected scholars of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism provide a clear portrait of the family in ancient Israel. Important theological and ethical implic
The Invention of Ancient Israel
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Keith W. Whitelam
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-19 - Publisher: Routledge

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The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the true history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam shows how ancient
How the Bible Became a Book
Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: William M. Schniedewind
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-05-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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For the past two hundred years biblical scholars have increasingly assumed that the Hebrew Bible was largely written and edited in the Persian and Hellenistic p