Historical knowledge in biblical antiquity
By: edited by Jacob Neusner, Bruce D. Chilton, William Scott Green
Publisher: Deo Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Blandford Forum
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9781905679003
Subjects: Bible; History of contemporary events; Dead Sea scrolls; Bijbel; Religious aspects; Antiquities; Authority; Evidences, authority; New Testament; Geschiedschrijving; Joodse literatuur
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The task of history for ancient Israel / Bruce Chilton; title: Does history matter? Meaning-making and the first two Greek historians / Carolyn Dewald; title: Are the Dead Sea scrolls historical texts? / Lawrence H. Schiffman; title: History-writing in, and on the basis of, the Jewish apocalyptic literature / George W.E. Nickelsburg; title: Encountering the past through the works of Flavius Josephus / Steve Mason; title: The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism: what kinds of questions did the ancient rabbis answer? / Jacob Neusner; title: Interpreting legal history in the Mishnaic division of agriculture / Alan J. Avery-Peck; title: Archaeology and history: what archaeology can show about ethnic and religious regions in ancient Galilee / Mordechai Aviam (with William Scott Green); title: In search of Jesus: issues of character / Bruce Chilton; title: Paul's thought and life / Bruce Chilton; title: James, Jesus' brother, and history / Bruce Chilton; title: Mary Magdalene and history / Bruce Chilton; title: Paul and Gamaliel / Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner; title: Historical questions and questioning history: can we write a history of Judaism in late antiquity? / Gary G. Porton; title: Different ways of looking at truth / William Scott Green.