Ahab Agonistes

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-567-04540-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, The

In this volume the European Seminar in Historical Methodology uses the period of the 9th and 8th centuries as a field for investigating the question of writing a history of Israel. This period provides a striking example in which the biblical text can be compared with other written and artifactual sources. Contributors explore a variety of aspects of the history of the period of Omri and Ahab and the following Jehu dynasty. As a volume it provides a comprehensive picture of the sources, the historical problems, and the areas of major debate.

A new title in the successful LHBOTS subseries - The European Seminar on Historical Methodology.
- The previous volume in this sub-series, Good Kings, Bad Kings was well received
- Provides an up-to-date picture of the sources, issues, and debates on the central period in the history of Israel, Judah and Syro-Palestine

The European Seminar in Historical Methodology is committed to debating issues surrounding the history of ancient Israel and Judah with the aim of developing methodological principles for writing a history of the period. In this particular session the topic chosen was the Omride dynasty—its rise and fall—and the subsequent Jehu dynasty, down to the fall of Samaria to the Assyrians.

Participants discuss such topics as the dating of prophetic texts, the house of Ahab in Chronicles, the Tel Dan inscription, the Mesha inscription, the Jezebel tradition, the archaeology of Iron IIB, the relationship between the biblical text and contemporary sources, and the nature of the Omride state. The volume incidentally gives a reasonably comprehensive treatment of the main sources, issues, debates, and secondary literature on this period of Israel’s history. An introductory chapter summarizes the individual papers and also the relevant section of Mario Liverani’s recent history of the period. A concluding `Reflections on the Debate’ summarizes the issues raised in the papers and provides a perspective on the discussion.

LHB/OTS volume 421 - ESHM volume 6

Zielgruppe

Academics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grabbe, Lester L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. INTRODUCTION

LESTER L. GRABBE
Introduction

II. ARTICLES

HANS M. BARSTAD
Can Prophetic Texts Be Dated? Amos 1-2 as an Example

EHUD BEN ZVI
The House of Omri/Ahab in Chronicles

LESTER L. GRABBE
The Kingdom of Israel from Omri to the Fall of Samaria: If We Had Only the Bible.

ERNST AXEL KNAUF
Was Omride Israel a Sovereign State?

INGO KOTTSIEPER
The Tel Dan Inscription (KAI 310) and the Political Relations between Aram-Damascus and Israel in the First Half of the First Millennium BCE

ANDRÉ LEMAIRE
The Mesha Stele and the Omri Dynasty

NADAV NA’AMAN
Royal Inscription versus Prophetic Story: Mesha’s Rebellion according to Biblical and Moabite Historiography

HERMANN MICHAEL NIEMANN
Royal Samaria—Capital or Residence? or: The Foundation of the City of Samaria by Sargon II

DAGMAR PRUIN
What Is in a Text?—Searching for Jezebel

THOMAS L. THOMPSON
A Testimony of the Good King: Reading the Mesha Stele

DAVID USSISHKIN
Samaria, Jezreel and Megiddo: Royal Centres of Omri and Ahab

DAVID A. WARBURTON
The Architecture of Israelite Temples

III. CONCLUSIONS

LESTER L. GRABBE
Reflections on the Discussion

Über Autor(innen)

Lester Grabbe, MA(Pasadena), PhD(Claremont), DD(Hull), is Professor Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull