The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition
Author(s): Daniel E. Fleming (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 4 Oct. 2012
Language: English
Print length: 398 pages
ISBN-10: 1107024315
ISBN-13: 9781107024311
Book Description
The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible undertakes a comprehensive re-evaluation of the Bible’s primary narrative in Genesis through Kings as it relates to history. It divides the core textual traditions along political lines that reveal deeply contrasting assumptions, an approach that places biblical controversies in dialogue with anthropologically informed archaeology. Starting from close study of selected biblical texts, the work moves toward historical issues that may be illuminated by both this material and a larger range of textual evidence. The result is a synthesis that breaks away from conventional lines of debate in matters relating to ancient Israel and the Bible, setting an agenda for future engagement of these fields with wider study of antiquity.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Fleming offers the reader an important discussion of methodology, insightful historical reconstructions, and arguments for the ‘genuineness’ of early biblical traditions. His approach ultimately represents what Richard Hess calls ‘critical orthodoxy’ in that both the biblical account and critical methodology are given equal footing. Fleming’s mediation of differing interests in reconstructing an ancient Israel will likely spur on countless debates …’ Tad Blacketer, Stone-Campbell Journal
Book Description
This book offers a new way for biblical scholars and archaeologists to envision how the Bible’s story relates to history.
About the Author
Daniel Fleming has taught and served in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University since 1990, when he received his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He currently serves as Chair of the Advisory Committee for NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. The current volume was launched with financial support from a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004). Fleming was also a senior Fulbright fellow to France (1997–8) and recipient of a one-year research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (2004–5). He is author of three books and co-author of a fourth: The Installation of Baal’s High Priestess at Emar (1992); Time at Emar (2000); Democracy’s Ancient Ancestors (Cambridge University Press, 2004); and, with Sara J. Milstein, The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic (2010). Fleming has contributed many articles on topics related to the ancient Near East to a range of professional journals and collected works.
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