The land that I will show you
Subtitle: essays on the history and archaeology of the ancient Near East in honor of J. Maxwell Miller
By: edited by J. Andrew Dearman and M. Patrick Graham.
Contributors: Miller, James Maxwell, 1937-; Dearman, John Andrew.; Graham, Matt Patrick.
Series: Journal for the study of the Old Testament.
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Sheffield, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Palestine -- Antiquities; Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: J. Maxwell Miller, scholar and teacher: a sketch -- J. Andrew Dearman; title: Shifting the gaze: historiographic constraints in Chronicles and their implications -- Ehud Ben Zvi; title: A projection for Israelite historiography: with a comparison between Qohelet and Nagarjuna -- Martin J. Buss; title: Did Saulide-Davidic rivalry resurface in early Persian Yehud? -- Diana Edelman; title: The beginning of the regnal year in Israel and Judah -- John H. Hayes; title: The year of Josiah's death: 609 or 610 BCE? -- Paul K. Hooker and John H. Hayes; title: The rise of the house of Jehu -- Stuart A. Irvine; title: Solomon at Megiddo? -- Ernst Axel Knauf; title: Šamši-ilu and the Realpolitik of Israel and Aram-Damascus in the eighth century BCE -- Jeffrey K. Kuan; title: The typology of the Davidic covenant -- Steven L. McKenzie; title: Absalom's daughter: an essay in vestige historiography -- Jack M. Sasson; title: New evidence on Edom in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods -- Piotr Bienkowski; title: Assyrian influence and changing technologies at Tall Jawa, Jordan -- P.M. Michèle Daviau; title: The intellectual, the archaeologist and the Bible -- Philip R. Davies; title: The geography of the Exodus -- John Van Seters; title: The Qumran scrolls and textual reconstruction -- Phillip R. Callaway; title: Mesha' and syntax -- Anson F. Rainey.