One God, one cult, one nation
Subtitle: archaeological and biblical perspectives
By: edited by Reinhard G. Kratz and Hermann Spieckermann
Contributors: Spieckermann, Hermann
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- Bd. 405
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9783110223576
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A great united monarchy? : archaeological and historical perspectives  -- Israel Finkelstein; title: Archaeology and the biblical narrative : the case of the united monarchy  -- Amihai Mazar; title: Solomon and the united monarchy : some textual evidence  -- Erhard Blum; title: Elders or youngsters? : critical remarks on 1 Kings 12  -- Alexander Rofé; title: "What share do we have in David--?" : Ben Sira's perspectives on 1 Kings 12  -- Markus Witte; title: The idea of cultic centralization and its supposed ancient Near Eastern analogies  -- Reinhard G. Kratz; title: Cult centralization in the ancient Near East? : conceptions of the ideal capital in the ancient Near East  -- Hanspeter Schaudig; title: Perspectives on southern Israel's cult centralization : Arad and Beer-scheba  -- Zeʼev Herzog; title: Why the cult reforms in Judah probably did not happen  -- Juha Pakkala; title: Tel Beth-Shean : history and archaeology  -- Amihai Mazar; title: Nysa-Scythopolis : ethnicity and religion  -- Gabriel Mazor; title: Beth Shean/Scythopolis in late antiquity : cult and culture, continuity and change  -- Katharina Heyden; title: God and His people : the concept of kingship and cult in the ancient Near East  -- Hermann Spieckermann; title: YHWH in the Northern and Southern Kingdom  -- Matthias Köckert; title: From many gods to the one God : the archaeological evidence  -- Ephraim Stern; title: Monotheism and angelology in Daniel  -- Michael Segal; title: Justice, the king and the gods : polytheism and emerging monotheism in the ancient world -- Christoph Auffarth.