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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816667903321

Autore

Banks Diane <1942->

Titolo

Writing the history of Israel [[electronic resource] /] / Diane Banks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London, : T. & T. Clark, c2006

ISBN

1-281-80314-6

9786611803148

0-567-44954-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; ; 438

Disciplina

221.9/50072022

Soggetti

Jews - History - To 70 A.D - Historiography

Old Testament scholars - History

Palestine History To 70 A.D Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 HISTORIOGRAPHY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY; Chapter 3 JULIUS WELLHAUSEN AND THE PROLEGOMENA TO THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL; Chapter 4 HISTORIOGRAPHY IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES TO WORLD WAR II; Chapter 5 BIBLICAL HISTORY AT MID-CENTURY: JOHN BRIGHT AND MARTIN NOTH; Chapter 6 HISTORIOGRAPHY AND CONTROVERSY IN THE RECENT PAST; Chapter 7 WRITING ISRAEL'S HISTORY TODAY; Chapter 8 CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

No biblical historian is included in the standard dictionaries of historians. Banks' study examines the boundaries as well as the links that exists between history writing in biblical studies and the practice of history in university departments of history. She argues that while the influence of the profession of writing history is apparent, there are countervailing forces as well. The presupposition that the Bible is a book of history conditions the outcome of historical research in biblical studies. Banks argues that Julius Wellhausen's history of Israel set in motion the general tendency to