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WHITELAM, K. W. Revealing the History of Ancient Palestine: Changing Perspectives 8. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, 416 p. – ISBN  9780815365914.

This volume is part of the Changing Perspectives sub-series, which is constituted by anthologies of articles by world-renowned biblical scholars and historians that have made an impact on the field and changed its course during the last decades. This volume offers a collection of seminal essays by Keith Whitelam on the early history of ancient Palestine and the origins and emergence of Israel. Collected together in one volume for the first time, and featuring one unpublished article, this volume will be of interest to biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholars interested in the politics of historical representation but also on critical ways of constructing the history of ancient Palestine.

Table of Contents

Introduction, by Emanuel Pfoh

1. Recreating the History of Israel

2. The Emergence of Israel: Social Transformation and State Formation following the Decline in Late Bronze Age Trade (with R.B. Coote)

3. Israel’s Traditions of Origin: Reclaiming the Land

4. Between History and Literature: The Social Production of Israel’s Traditions of Origin

5. The Identity of Early Israel: The Realignment and Transformation of Late Bronze-Iron Age Palestine

6. Sociology or History: Towards a (Human) History of Ancient Palestine?

7. The Search for Early Israel: Historical Perspective

8. ‘Israel Is Laid Waste; His Seed Is No More’: What If Merneptah’s Scribes Were Telling the Truth?

9. Palestine during the Iron Age

10. The Poetics of the History of Israel: Shaping Palestinian History

11. Representing Minimalism: The Rhetoric and Reality of Revisionism

12. Transcending the Boundaries: Expanding the Limits

13. Imagining Jerusalem

14. Interested Parties: History and Ideology at the End of the Century

15. Resisting the Past: Ancient Israel in Western Memory

16. The Death of Biblical History

17. Architectures of Enmity

Index

 

Keith W. Whitelam was previously Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Stirling, UK, and later Professor and Head of the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is also the founder and director for Sheffield Phoenix Press, specialising in the publication of research in biblical studies. His previous books include The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History (Routledge 1996), and The Emergence of Early Israel in Historical Perspective (with Robert B. Coote, 2010).

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LEVY, T. E. ; SCHNEIDER, T. ; PROPP, W. H. C. (eds.) Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective: Text, Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience. New York: Springer, 2015, XXVII + 584 p. – ISBN 9783319349770.

 

The Bible’s grand narrative about Israel’s Exodus from Egypt is central to Biblical religion, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim identity and the formation of the academic disciplines studying the ancient Near East. It has also been a pervasive theme in artistic and popular imagination. Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective is a pioneering work surveying this tradition in unprecedented breadth, combining archaeological discovery, quantitative methodology and close literary reading. Archaeologists, Egyptologists, Biblical Scholars, Computer Scientists, Geoscientists and other experts contribute their diverse approaches in a novel, transdisciplinary consideration of ancient topography, Egyptian and Near Eastern parallels to the Exodus story, the historicity of the Exodus, the interface of the Exodus question with archaeological fieldwork on emergent Israel, the formation of biblical literature, and the cultural memory of the Exodus in ancient Israel and beyond.

This edited volume contains research presented at the groundbreaking symposium “Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination” held in 2013 at the Qualcomm Institute of the University of California, San Diego. The combination of 44 contributions by an international group of scholars from diverse disciplines makes this the first such transdisciplinary study of ancient text and history. In the original conference and with this new volume, revolutionary media, such as a 3D immersive virtual reality environment, impart innovative, Exodus-based research to a wider audience. Out of archaeology, ancient texts, science and technology emerge an up-to-date picture of the Exodus for the 21st Century and a new standard for collaborative research.

Thomas Evan Levy is Distinguished Professor and holds the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego. Thomas Schneider is Professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. William H. C. Propp is the Harriet and Louis Bookheim Professor of Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages at the University of California, San Diego.