History and the Hebrew Bible: Culture, Narrative, and Memory

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38878-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 70 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation

This essay offers an introduction to select disciplinary developments in the study of history and in historical study of the Hebrew Bible. It focuses first and foremost on “cultural history,” a broad category defined by nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments in anthropology and sociology, literary theory and linguistics, and other fields of study. The first part of the essay comments on developments since the so-called “linguistic turn,” highlighting some key works on culture, narrative, and memory, in order to establish a contemporary historical approach to biblical studies. It then turns to questions of the Hebrew Bible’s usefulness for historical study, and highlights studies of King David and the Davidic polity in ancient Israel/Judah, to show how scholars of the Bible have done historical work in recent years. And finally, it provides a case study of the book of Joshua, demonstrating how historians can utilize biblical texts as sources for cultural history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

History and the Hebrew Bible: Culture, Narrative, and Memory

Ian D. Wilson

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

Part 1: History and Culture, Narrative, Memory

Part 2: Hebrew Bible and History

Part 3: Joshua, a Historical Take

Conclusion

References

Über Autor(innen)

Ian D. Wilson, Ph.D. (2015), University of Alberta, is Director of the Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life at that university, and is the author of Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah (Oxford University Press, 2017).