The Creation of History in Ancient Israel

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Marc Zvi Brettler

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Much of the Old Testament narrates what it claims to be the history of Israel. However, a close reading of the biblical text in conjunction with other literary and archaeological evidence indicates that the "history" provided by the Old Testament is frequently inaccurate or untrue. Marc Zvi Brettler explores ways of reading the biblical texts if they are not to be read as history. Through indepth analysis of texts from the "Book of Chronicles" , "Genesis" , "Deuteronomy" , "Judges" and "Samuel" , Brettler shows how the biblical historians were influenced by four key factors: typology, interpretation of earlier texts, satire and ideology. This text demonstrates how the historian, by taking account of this model of history writing, can start to piece together the history of ancient Israel using the Hebrew Bible as a source.

Release date NZ

June 25th, 1998

Author

Marc Zvi Brettler

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

270

Dimensions

156x234x14

ISBN-13

9780415194075

Product ID

1679408

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