TY  - BOOK
AU  - Day,John
ED  - Oxford Old Testament Seminar.
TI  - In search of pre-exilic Israel: proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar 
T2  - Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series
SN  - 9780567245540 (electronic bk.)
AV  - DS121.3 .O94 2004eb
U1  - 933 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - T & T Clark International
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - History of Biblical events
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Altes Testament
KW  - swd
KW  - Jews
KW  - History
KW  - 1200-953 B.C
KW  - 953-586 B.C
KW  - Bible. O.T
KW  - To 586 B.C
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Oude Testament
KW  - gtt
KW  - Geschiedschrijving
KW  - Datering
KW  - Exegese
KW  - Israel (Altertum)
KW  - Pre-exilic Israel
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Seventeen essays which were originally papers delivered to the Oxford Old Testament seminar between January 2001 and June 2003, rev. and often expanded; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Current 'revisionism' and the literature of the Old Testament; Ernest Nicholson --; Was there an exodus?; Graham Davies --; Back to basics: a holistic approach to the problem of the emergence of Ancient Israel; Anthony J. Frendo --; Histories and non-histories of Ancient Israel: the question of the united monarchy; William G. Dever --; Dating the 'succession narrative'; John Barton --; The date of the Yahwist; J.A. Emerton --; Was there a social crisis in the Eighth Century?; Walter Houston --; In search of post-exilic Israel: Samaria after the fall of the Northern Kingdom; Gary N. Knoppers --; In search of the pre-exilic Isaiah; H.G.M. Williamson --; Jeremiah before the exile?; David J. Reimer --; How many pre-exilic Psalms are there?; John Day --; How much wisdom literature has its roots in the pre-exilic period?; Katherine J. Dell --; Is the Covenant Code an exilic composition? A response to John Van Seters; Bernard M. Levinson --; Yahweh's Asherah, inclusive monotheism and the question of dating; B.A. Mastin --; Mesopotamian sources and pre-exilic Israel; Hebrew and West Semitic inscriptions and pre-exilic Israel; Andre Lemaire --; Hebrew poetic structure as a basis for dating; Terry Fenton
N2  - In recent years there has been a tendency among certain scholars to claim that little can be known about pre-exilic Israel, because the Old Testament was only compiled in the post-exilic period (for example Philip Davies, Thomas Thompson, Neils Peter Lemche). One scholar (Lemche) has even claimed that the Old Testament is a Hellenistic work. The purpose of this book is to argue that this is an extreme and untenable position and that, though much of the Old Testament was indeed edited in the exilic or post-exilic period, many of the underlying sources used go back to the pre-exilic period. When
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