Israel's Exodus in transdisciplinary perspective
Subtitle: text, archaeology, culture, and geoscience
By: Thomas E. Levy, Thomas Schneider, William H.C. Propp, editors ; managing editor: Brad C. Sparks
Contributors: University of California, San Diego. Qualcomm Institute
Series: Quantitative methods in the humanities and social sciences; Quantitative methods in the humanities and social sciences
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cham, Switzerland; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9783319047676; 9783319047683
Subjects: Exodustradition; Bibel; The Exodus; Congresses; Religion
Description: The Bible's grand narrative about Israel's Exodus from Egypt is central to Biblical religion, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim identity, and the formation of the academic disciplines studying the ancient Near East. It has also been a pervasive theme in artistic and popular imagination. Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective is a pioneering work surveying this tradition in unprecedented breadth, combining archaeological discovery, quantitative methodology, and close literary reading. Archaeologists, Egyptologists, Biblical Scholars, Computer Scientists, Geoscientists and other experts contribute their diverse approaches in a novel, transdisciplinary consideration of ancient topography, Egyptian and Near Eastern parallels to the Exodus story, the historicity of the Exodus, the interface of the Exodus question with archaeological fieldwork on emergent Israel, the formation of biblical literature, and the cultural memory of the Exodus in ancient Israel and beyond. This edited volume contains research presented at the groundbreaking symposium "Out of Egypt: Israel Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination" held in 2013 at the Qualcomm Institute of the University of California, San Diego. The combination of 44 contributions by an international group of scholars from diverse disciplines makes this the first such transdisciplinary study of ancient text and history. In the original conference and with this new volume, revolutionary media, such as a 3D immersive virtual reality environment, impart innovative, Exodus-based research to a wider audience. Out of archaeology, ancient texts, science, and technology emerge an up-to-date picture of the Exodus for the 21st Century, and a new standard for collaborative research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Setting the stage: interdisciplinary approaches to the Exodus narrative; title: Part II. Science-based approaches to the Exodus; title: Part III. Cyber-archaeology and Exodus; title: Part IV. The Exodus narrative in its Egyptian and Near Eastern context; title: Part V. The Exodus narrative as text; title: Part VI. The Exodus in later reception and perception; title: Part VII. The Exodus as cultural memory; title: Part VIII. The Exodus and the emergence of Israel: new perspectives from Biblical studies and archeology.