Finding myth and history in the Bible
Subtitle: scholarship, scholars and errors : essays in honor og Giovanni Garbini
By: edited by Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, Chiara Peri and Jim West
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd; Equinox Publishing (Indonesia); Equinox Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Sheffield; Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781781791264; 9781781791271
Subjects: Historiography; Bibel; Bible; History of Biblical events; Myth in the Old Testament; Criticism, interpretation; Mythos; Geschichte
Description: In recent years the critical approach to biblical 'Ancient Israel' and to the Bible as ancient text has undergone considerable change. This collection of essays, inspired by the work of Professor Giovanni Garbini, showcases scholarship which characterizes the new approach. The papers collected in this volume on methodological and historical topics related to the study of the history of ancient Israel. They represent biblical and historical studies, or present the joining of the two fields together, with the aim of shedding new light on biblical material. The contributions by leading scholars in the field of Biblical Studies offer new readings of disputed texts, new methodological tools for study of the ancient world inhabited by an entity called 'Israel', and a variety of reinterpretations of biblical texts. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Giovanni Garbini and minimalism; title: Giovanni Garbini and the poetry of Leah Goldberg; title: "To each his own Job": on Job 42:1-6; title: The siloam tunnel revisited; title: Hosea 2:2 and the dating of the Book of Hosea; title: Beyond Garbini's anti-Mosaic Pentateuch: Nehushtan as literary tie between the Torah and the historical books; title: "When dreams come true": Jerusalem/Hierosolyma and Jewish nationalism in the Hellenistic and Roman periods; title: The same old story; title: Toponymy riddles; title: Dividing the image of God: the creation of man and woman in Genesis; title: Farewell to the "blind and lame" (2 Samuel 5:6-10); title: From Moses to the Essenes; title: A view from the West: the relationship between Phoenicia and "colonial" world in the Persian period; title: A couple of stone disks or simply a pair of disks? About the Hebrew word OBNAYIM (Exodus 1:16; Jeremiah 18:3); title: Jonah and the triffid: a suggestion for the QIQAYON; title: On finding myth and history in the Bible: epistemological and methodological observations; title: "Historical" Israel and "biblical" Israel, or ethnicity as a symbol; title: Ethnicity and the Bible: multiple Judaisms; title: Correspondence.; title: "In recent years the critical approach to biblical 'Ancient Israel' and to the Bible as ancient text has undergone considerable change. This collection of essays, inspired by the work of Professor Giovanni Garbini, showcases scholarship which characterizes the new approach. The papers collected in this volume on methodological and historical topics related to the study of the history of ancient Israel. They represent biblical and historical studies, or present the joining of the two fields together, with the aim of shedding new light on biblical material. The contributions by leading scholars in the field of Biblical Studies offer new readings of disputed texts, new methodological tools for study of the ancient world inhabited by an entity called 'Israel', and a variety of reinterpretations of biblical texts."; title: Publisher's description.