| Description |
1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations, map, portrait |
| Series |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 343 |
|
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 343.
|
| Contents |
J. Maxwell Miller, scholar and teacher: a sketch / J. Andrew Dearman -- Shifting the gaze: historiographic constraints in Chronicles and their implications / Ehud Ben Zvi -- A projection for Israelite historiography: with a comparison between Qohelet and Nagarjuna / Martin J. Buss -- Did Saulide-Davidic rivalry resurface in early Persian Yehud? / Diana Edelman -- The beginning of the regnal year in Israel and Judah / John H. Hayes -- The year of Josiah's death: 609 or 610 BCE? / Paul K. Hooker and John H. Hayes -- The rise of the house of Jehu / Stuart A. Irvine -- Solomon at Megiddo? / Ernst Axel Knauf -- Šamši-ilu and the Realpolitik of Israel and Aram-Damascus in the eighth century BCE / Jeffrey K. Kuan -- The typology of the Davidic covenant / Steven L. McKenzie -- Absalom's daughter: an essay in vestige historiography / Jack M. Sasson -- New evidence on Edom in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods / Piotr Bienkowski -- Assyrian influence and changing technologies at Tall Jawa, Jordan / P.M. Michèle Daviau -- The intellectual, the archaeologist and the Bible / Philip R. Davies -- The geography of the Exodus / John Van Seters -- The Qumran scrolls and textual reconstruction / Phillip R. Callaway -- Mesha' and syntax / Anson F. Rainey |
| Summary |
A collection of seventeen articles by colleagues and former students of Professor J. Maxwell Miller who taught at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. The papers deal with the history, chronology, geography, archaeology and epigraphy of ancient Israel and its setting in the Levant, and range from broad methodological discussions of historiography to focused analyses of individual texts or historical issues. A review of Miller's career and a select bibliography of his publications are also included |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings.
|
|
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
|
|
Antiquities
|
|
Bijbelse archeologie.
|
|
Oude Testament.
|
|
Bijbelse geschiedenis.
|
| SUBJECT |
Palestine -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097166
|
|
Palestine -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097164
|
|
Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097167
|
| Subject |
Middle East -- Palestine
|
| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
|
|
History
|
|
Festschriften.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Miller, J. Maxwell (James Maxwell), 1937-
|
|
Dearman, J. Andrew (John Andrew), 1951-
|
|
Graham, M. Patrick (Matt Patrick), 1950-
|
| LC no. |
2001536315 |
| ISBN |
9780567355805 |
|
0567355802 |
|
1281841870 |
|
9781281841872 |
|
9786611841874 |
|
6611841873 |
|
