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Ahab agonistes [electronic resource] : the rise and fall of the Omri dynasty / edited by Lester L. Grabbe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 421. | European seminar in historical methodology ; 6. | T & T Clark library of biblical studiesPublication details: London ; New York : T & T Clark, c2007.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 353 p.) : ill., mapsISBN:
  • 9780567251718 (electronic bk.)
  • 0567251713 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ahab agonistes.DDC classification:
  • 222.606 22
LOC classification:
  • DS121.6 .E97 2001eb (Online)
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Contents:
Introduction / Lester L. Grabbe -- Can prophetic texts be dated? Amos 1-2 as an example / Hans M. Barstad -- The House of Omri/Ahab in Chronicles / Ehud Ben Zvi -- The Kingdom of Israel from Omri to the fall of Samaria: if we had only the Bible ... / Lester L. Grabbe -- Was Omride Israel a sovereign state? / Ernst Axel Knauf -- The Tel Dan inscription (KAI 310) and the political relations between Aram-Damascus and Israel in the first half of the first millennium BCE / Ingo Kottsieper -- The Mesha stele and the Omry dynasty / Andr�e Lemaire -- Royal inscription versus prophetic story: Mesha's rebellion according to Biblical and Moabite historiography / Nadav Na�aman -- Royal Samaria -- capital or residence? or: The foundation of the city of Samaria by Sargon II / Hermann Michael Niemann -- What is in a text? -- Searching for Jezebel / Dagmar Pruin -- A Testimony of the good king: reading the Mesha stele / Thomas L. Thompson -- Samaria, Jezreel and Megiddo: royal centres of Omri and Ahab / David Ussishkin -- The Architecture of Israelite temples / David A. Warburton -- Conclusions -- Reflections on the discussion / Lester L. Grabbe.
Summary: The European Seminar in Historical Methodology is committed to debating issues surrounding the history of ancient Israel and Judah with the aim of developing methodological principles for writing a history of the period. In this particular session the topic chosen was the Omride dynasty, its rise and fall, and the subsequent Jehu dynasty, down to the fall of Samaria to the Assyrians. Participants discuss such topics as the dating of prophetic texts, the house of Ahab in Chronicles, the Tel Dan inscription, the Mesha inscription, the Jezebel tradition, and the archaeology of Iron IIB.
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Introduction / Lester L. Grabbe -- Can prophetic texts be dated? Amos 1-2 as an example / Hans M. Barstad -- The House of Omri/Ahab in Chronicles / Ehud Ben Zvi -- The Kingdom of Israel from Omri to the fall of Samaria: if we had only the Bible ... / Lester L. Grabbe -- Was Omride Israel a sovereign state? / Ernst Axel Knauf -- The Tel Dan inscription (KAI 310) and the political relations between Aram-Damascus and Israel in the first half of the first millennium BCE / Ingo Kottsieper -- The Mesha stele and the Omry dynasty / Andr�e Lemaire -- Royal inscription versus prophetic story: Mesha's rebellion according to Biblical and Moabite historiography / Nadav Na�aman -- Royal Samaria -- capital or residence? or: The foundation of the city of Samaria by Sargon II / Hermann Michael Niemann -- What is in a text? -- Searching for Jezebel / Dagmar Pruin -- A Testimony of the good king: reading the Mesha stele / Thomas L. Thompson -- Samaria, Jezreel and Megiddo: royal centres of Omri and Ahab / David Ussishkin -- The Architecture of Israelite temples / David A. Warburton -- Conclusions -- Reflections on the discussion / Lester L. Grabbe.

The European Seminar in Historical Methodology is committed to debating issues surrounding the history of ancient Israel and Judah with the aim of developing methodological principles for writing a history of the period. In this particular session the topic chosen was the Omride dynasty, its rise and fall, and the subsequent Jehu dynasty, down to the fall of Samaria to the Assyrians. Participants discuss such topics as the dating of prophetic texts, the house of Ahab in Chronicles, the Tel Dan inscription, the Mesha inscription, the Jezebel tradition, and the archaeology of Iron IIB.

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