Ancient and modern Scriptural historiography =
Subtitle: L'historiographie biblique, ancienne et moderne
By: edited by George J. Brooke, Thomas Römer.
Contributors: Brooke, George J.; Römer, Thomas, 1955-
Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- 207
Publisher: Leuven University Press; Peeters
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leuven; Leuven; Dudley, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9789058676344; 9789042919693
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Historiography; Bible. -- N.T. -- Historiography; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Historiography; Judaism -- History -- To 70 A.D. -- Historiography; History, Ancient -- Historiography
Other titles: Historiographie biblique, ancienne et moderne
Notes: Papers presented at a colloquium held in Manchester and Sheffield, England, in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Fourteen contributions in English and 6 in French.
Table of contents: title: Historiography ancient and modern : fact and fiction / Stuart D. Beeson; title: "Another country"? BIblical texts and the past / Philip R. Davies; title: The poetics of the history of Israel : shaping Palestinian history / Keith W. Whitelam; title: Conjuring history from texts : Eduard Meyer's contribution to Biblical studies / Roger Tomes; title: Historical explanation in Jewish and Christian writers and their contemporaries around the first century / F. Gerald Downing; title: The historian and the history of religion / Jeremy Gregory; title: Joshua : historical mapping / Andrian H.W. Curtis; title: La construction d'une <<vie de Moïse>> dans la Bible hébraïque et chez quelques auteurs hellénistiques / Thomas Römer; title: The "empty land" as a motif in city laments / Diana Edelman; title: L'écrit sacerdotal entre mythe et histoire / Christophe Nihan; title: Les rapports entre apocalyptique et historiographie : réflexions à partir du livre de Daniel / Jean-Daniel Kaestli; title: L'histoire d'Israël dans les fragments d'Eupolème / Thomas Naef; title: Types of historiography in the Qumran scrolls / George J. Brooke; title: From poetry to historiography : the image of the Hasmoneans in Targum canticles and the question of the Targum's provenance and date / Philip S. Alexander; title: Honour, dishonour and legitimation : some factors shaping ancient historical writing / Peter Oakes; title: Une relecture paulinienne de l'histoire d'Israël (Rm 9-11) / Valérie Nicolet Anderson; title: Marathon or Jericho? Readings Acts in dialogue with Biblical and Greek historiography / Loveday C.A. Alexander; title: Jewish and Christian understandings of the fall of Jerusalem : conflicting interpretations of a historical event / Daniel Marguerat; title: Comment on refait l'histoire : la figure de Pierre entre histoire et hagiographie (Actes des apôtres et Actes de Pierre) / Emmanuelle Steffek.