Biblical Narratives, Archaeology and Historicity

List of Figures
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction, Lukasz Niesiolowski-Span² and Emanuel Pfoh
The Publications of Thomas L. Thompson
PART 1: METHOD
Chapter 1. The City of David as a Palimpsest - Margreet L. Steiner, Independent Scholar, the Netherlands
Chapter 2. Living in the Past? Keeping Up-To-Date in Ancient Near Eastern Studies - Raz Kletter, University of Helsinki, Finland
Chapter 3. What People Want to Believe: Or Fighting Against 'Cultural Memory' - Niels Peter Lemche, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Chapter 4. The Need for a Comprehensive Sociology of Knowledge of Biblical and Archaeological Studies of the Southern Levant - Emanuel Pfoh, National University of La Plata, Argentina
PART 2: HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Chapter 5. The Abraham and Esau-Jacob Stories in the Context of the Maccabean Period - Lukasz Niesiolowski-Span², University of Warsaw, Poland
Chapter 6. Tell Balata (Shechem): An Archaeological and Historical Reassessment - Hamdan Taha, former Deputy of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Palestine, and Gerrit van der Kooij, University of Leiden, the Netherlands
Chapter 7. âSolomonâ (Shalmaneser III) and the Emergence of Judah as an Independent Kingdom - Russell Gmirkin, Independent Scholar, USA
Chapter 8. On the Pre-Exilic Gap between Israel and Judah - tienne Nodet, Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise de Jerusalem, Israel
Chapter 9. Perceptions of Israelâs Past in Qumran Writings: Between Myth and Historiography, Jesper H¸genhaven, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Chapter 10. Is Josephusâs John the Baptist Passage a Chronologically Dislocated Story of the Death of Hyrcanus II? - Greg Doudna, Independant Scholar, USA
Chapter 11. Thompsonâs Jesus: Staring Down the Wishing Well - Jim West, Ming Hua Theological College, Hong Kong
Chapter 12. The Qurâan as Biblical Rewriting - Mogens M¼ller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
PART 3: BIBLICAL NARRATIVES
Chapter 13. The Food of Life and the Food of Death in Texts from the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East - Ingrid Hjelm, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Chapter 14. A Gate in Gaza: An Essay on the Reception of Tall Tales - Jack M. Sasson, Vanderbilt University, USA
Chapter 15. Deborahâs Topical Song: Remarks on the Gattung of Judges 5 - Bob Becking, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Chapter 16. How Jerusalemâs Temple Was Aligned to Mosesâ Tabernacle: About the Historical Power of an Invented Myth - Rainer Albertz, University of Munster, Germany
Chapter 17. Can the Book of Nehemiah Be Used as an Historical Source, and If So, of What? - Lisbeth S. Fried, University of Michigan, USA
Chapter 18. Chroniclesâ Reshaping of Memories of Ancestors Populating Genesis - Ehud Ben Zvi, University of Alberta, Canada
Chapter 19. The Book of Proverbs and Hesiodâs Works and Days - Philippe Wajdenbaum, Independent Scholar, the Netherlands
Chapter 20. The Villain âSamaritanâ: The Samiri as the Other Moses in Qurâanic Exegesis, Joshua Sabih, University of Copenhagen
Index of References
Index of Authors