Virtual History and the Bible - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9004115552 ISBN 13 : 9789004115552

Editeur : Brill, 1999

Synopsis

To mark the new millennium, Virtual History and the Bible asks where we are at the fin de siècle and how we got that way. What if important events in ancient history had turned out differently? How different might the present century be?

What if Merneptah's scribes were telling the truth when they claimed, "Israel has been laid waste?" What if the exodus and conquest had really happened? What if we had no Assyrian account of Sennacherib's third campaign or the palace reliefs depicting his capture of Lachish? What if the Chronicler did use the Deuteronomistic History? What if Luke had never met Theophilus? What if Paul had travelled east rather than west? This is not fantasy or fiction. The sixteen essays in this volume, by eminent historians of the Bible, engage in serious scholarly inquiry into alternative historical scenarios and their potential consequences. The result is a trenchant demonstration of the ways historians set about working with the evidence in order to reconstruct the past.
Contributors
Keith W. Whitelam, Lester L. Grabbe, Susan Ackerman, Thomas L. Thompson, Ernst Axel Knauf, Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, Robert P. Carroll, Niels Peter Lemche, Joseph Blenkinsopp, A. Graeme Auld, Philip R. Davies, Loveday C. A. Alexander, Richard Bauckham, John Dominic Crossan, Pheme Perkins.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

J. Cheryl Exum is Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. She is Executive Editor of Biblical Interpretation and Series Editor of the Sheffield Academic Press series Gender, Culture, Theory. Her books include Tragedy and Biblical Narrative: Arrows of the Almighty; Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives; Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women; and Was sagt das Richterbuch den Frauen?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004115552
• ISBN 13: 9789004115552
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Éditeur: Exum J.Cheryl
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible