The Hebrew Bible and History

Contents
Original Publication
Introduction
Principles for Writing History
Contents of the Volume

Part I: Studies in Methodology
Introduction
1. Herbert Niehr: 'Some Aspects of Working with the Textual Sources'
2. Hans M. Barstad: 'The Strange Fear of the Bible: Some Reflections on the "Bibliophobia" in Recent Ancient Israelite Historiography'
3. J. Maxwell Miller: 'Is it Possible to Write a History of Israel without Relying on the Hebrew Bible?'
4. Max Miller: 'Reading the Bible Historically: The Historian's Approach'
5. Nadav Na'aman: 'Does Archaeology Really Deserve the Status of a "High Court" in Biblical Historical Research?'
6. Ehud Ben Zvi: 'Malleability and its Limits: Sennacherib's Campaign against Judah as a Case-Study'
7. Niels Peter Lemche: 'On the Problems of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic Israelite (Palestinian) History'
8. Thomas L. Thompson: 'Text, Context, and Referent in Israelite Historiography'
9. Lester L. Grabbe: 'The Big Max: Review of A Biblical History of Israel by Iain Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman III'
10. Iain Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman III: '"Who Is the Prophet Talking about, Himself or Someone Else?" (Acts 8.34): A Response to Lester Grabbe's Review of A Biblical History of Israel'
Further Readings
Part II: The Beginnings of Israel and the Rise of the Monarchy
Introduction
11. John Van Seters: 'The Geography of the Exodus'
12. Ernst Axel Knauf: 'History in Joshua'
13. Ernst Axel Knauf: 'History in Judges'
14. Diana Edelman: 'Saul ben Kish in History and Tradition'
15. Lester L. Grabbe: 'The Mighty Men of Israel: 1-2 Samuel and History'
16. Nadav Na'aman: 'Sources and Composition in the History of David'
17. Walter Dietrich: 'David and the Philistines: Literature and History'
18. Ernst Axel Knauf, 'King Solomon's Copper Supply'
19. Hermann Michael Niemann: 'The Socio-Political Shadow Cast by the Biblical Solomon'
20. Ann E. Killebrew: 'Biblical Jerusalem: An Archaeological Assessment'
21. Rainer Albertz: 'Secondary Sources also Deserve to Be Historically Evaluated: The Case of the United Monarchy'
Further Readings
Part III: Case Study: The Question of the Reform under Josiah
Introduction
22. Philip R. Davies: 'Josiah and the Law Book'
23. Rainer Albertz: 'Why a Reform like Josiah's Must Have Happened'
24. Christoph Uehlinger: 'Was There a Cult Reform under King Josiah? The Case for a Well-Grounded Minimum'
Further Readings
Part IV: Case Study: The Problem of Nehemiah's Wall
Introduction
25. Israel Finkelstein: 'Geographical Lists in Ezra and Nehemiah in the Light of Archaeology: Persian or Hellenistic?'
26. Oded Lipschits: 'Jerusalem between Two Periods of Greatness: The Size and Status of the City in the Babylonian, Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods'
Further Readings
Part V: Conclusions
27. Lester L. Grabbe: 'Seventeen Years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology: The Results'
Further Readings
Index