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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782265003321

Autore

Thompson Thomas L

Titolo

Jerusalem in Ancient History and Tradition [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2004

ISBN

1-281-80269-7

0-567-60506-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies ; ; v.v. 381

Disciplina

221.9

933

Soggetti

Jerusalem in the Bible

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; An Introduction: Can a History of Ancient Jerusalem and Palestine be Written?; A Moral Reading of the Bible in Jerusalem; 'House of David': The Tel Dan Inscription(s); Expanding Borders: The Development of Jerusalem in the Iron Age; Rome, Syria and the Jerusalem High Priest: The International Bases of the High Priest's Rule of the Jerusalem City-State: 175-63 BCE; Herod and Jerusalem: The Hellenization of an Oriental City; Jerusalem in the Time of the Kingdom of Judah; Ethnic Groups in Jerusalem

From Zion to Zion: Jerusalem in the Dead Sea ScrollsThe Making of the Holy City: On the Foundations of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible; Brothers Fighting Brothers: Jewish and Samaritan Ethnocentrism in Tradition and History; Holy War at the Center of Biblical Theology: Shalom and the Cleansing of Jerusalem; 'Next Year in Jerusalem': Bible, Identity and Myth on the Web; Imagining Jerusalem; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

An international team of historians, archaeologists and biblical scholars discuss new perspectives on the archaeology, history and biblical traditions of ancient Jerusalem and examine their ethical, literary, historical and theological relationships. Essays range from a discussion of the Hellenization of Jerusalem in the time of Herod to an examination of its identity and myth on the Internet, while Thomas L.



Thompson's informed Introduction queries whether a true history of ancient Jerusalem and Palestine can in fact ever be written.Contributors include: Thomas L. Thompson, Michael Prior, Nie