Text and tablet
Subtitle: Near Eastern archaeology, the Old Testament, and new possibilities
By: Arthur Gibson ; editor, Brook W.R. Pearson.
Contributors: Pearson, Brook W. R.
Series: Ashgate new critical thinking in theology & biblical studies
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Historiography.; Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Middle Eastern literature -- Relation to the Old Testament.; Middle East -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-292).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; title: 1 Philosophical Archaeology and Ancient Texts; title: Introduction; title: Signs to the External World; title: Visual Predicates; title: Archaeology and Theology; title: Archaeology of Cult; title: Logical Archaeology; title: Catastrophe Archaeology and Mental States; title: Tablet and Text; title: 2 The Old Testament and Literary Theory; title: Tablets, Texts and Literary Theories; title: The Status of Literary Theories; title: Mental Causes and Indeterminate Texts; title: The Principle of Excess; title: Holographic Meaning; title: Semiotic Serpents; title: 'True' Interpretation; title: Polyphony, Fantasy and Mimesis; title: Psychological Conclusion; title: PART II: OLD TESTAMENT AND NEAR EAST INTERPRETATION; title: 3 Does Genesis Contain 3rd-Millennium BC Text?; title: The Ebla Texts; title: Amalek, Sodom and Gomorrah; title: The Repha'im; title: The King of Giants; title: A Giant Obituary; title: Fertile Giants; title: Sumerian Creation at Ebla?; title: 'Ur of the Chaldees'; title: Editorial Disagreement; title: 4 Egyptian Texts and the Old Testament; title: The Presence of the Israelites; title: The Status of 'Silence'; title: General and Specific Evidence; title: Purely Literary Grounds?; title: An Egyptian Parallel with the Plagues?; title: Yahweh versus Who?; title: 5 Generalizing about the Exodus Journey; title: Vagueness; title: Ten Commandments and Law Codes; title: Early Mesopotamian Amorite Laws; title: 6 The Hebrew Conflict with Canaan; title: An Egyptian Province?; title: City Hebrews in Evidence; title: The Language of Conquest; title: Biblical and Ugaritic Gods; title: Yahweh at Kuntillet 'Ajrud; title: 7 The Sense of Opposition in David; title: Contradiction; title: Conflicting and Irreconcilable; title: Who Killed which Goliath?; title: 28 Military Theology; title: Particular Generalization; title: Elisha and the Iron Axe; title: Sennacherib; title: Sennacherib's Return to Nineveh; title: 9 Babylonian and Aramaic Records of Daniel; title: Belshazzar and Nabonidus; title: 'King' and 'Kingship'; title: Belshazzar's Father; title: Daniel's Date; title: 10 Conclusion; title: Bibliography.