Israel
Subtitle: ancient kingdom or late invention?
By: Daniel I. Block, editor, Brian H. Cribb and Gregory S. Smith, associate editors.
Contributors: Block, Daniel Isaac, 1943-
Publisher: B & H Academic Group
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780805446791
Subjects: Jews -- History -- To 586 B.C; Jews -- History -- Sources; Israel -- History
Genres: Sources
Notes: "... the essays represent revised and updated versions of papers delivered at a conference in Louisville in January, 2004."--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Israel, Ancient kingdom or late invention? / Daniel I. Block; title: The value and limitations of the Bible and archaeology / Alan R. Millard; title: Contextual criticism as a framework for biblical interpretation / John M. Monson; title: North-West Semitic inscriptions and biblical interpretation / Joel Drinkard; title: From Joseph to David : Mari and Israelite pastoral traditions / Daniel E. Fleming; title: Major geographical issues in the accounts of the Exodus / James K. Hoffmeier; title: Slavery and slave laws in ancient Hatti and Israel / Harry A. Hoffner, Jr.; title: Were the Israelites really Canaanites? / Alan R. Millard; title: Syria and the Bible : the Luwian connection / Richard S. Hess; title: David and Solomon's Jerusalem : do the Bible and archaeology disagree? / Alan R. Millard; title: Who were Israel's Transjordanian neighbors and how did they differ? / Gerald L. Mattingly; title: Shalmaneser III and Israel / K. Lawson Younger, Jr.; title: Did the Israelites really learn their monotheism in Babylon? / Simon J. Sherwin; title: Did Persian Zoroastrianism influence Judaism? / Edwin M. Yamauchi; title: Interpreting the Bible as an ancient eastern document / John H. Walton.