02799nam 2200613Ia 450 991045370510332120200520144314.01-281-80327-897866118032780-567-48836-5(CKB)1000000000542171(EBL)437042(OCoLC)276934807(SSID)ssj0000334669(PQKBManifestationID)11241569(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000334669(PQKBWorkID)10270958(PQKB)11529936(MiAaPQ)EBC437042(Au-PeEL)EBL437042(CaPaEBR)ebr10250973(CaONFJC)MIL180327(OCoLC)893334645(EXLCZ)99100000000054217119900723d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAncient conquest accounts[electronic resource] a study in ancient Near Eastern and Biblical history writing /K. Lawson Younger JrSheffield, England JSOT Pressc19901 online resource (393 p.)Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series,0309-0787 ;98Description based upon print version of record.0-567-55704-9 1-85075-252-4 Includes bibliography and index.CONTENTS; Preface; List of abbreviations; Illustration: Verso of the Narmer Palette; INTRODUCTION: ""THE UNDERPINNINGS""; STAGE ONE: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN CONQUEST ACCOUNTS; STAGE TWO: ISRAELITE CONQUEST ACCOUNTS; STAGE THREE: SYNTHESIS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; APPENDIX; INDEXWorks on Old Testament historiography, the 'Conquest', and the origins of ancient Israel have burgeoned in recent days. But while others have been issuing new reconstructions this novel work presents a close reading of the biblical text. The focus is on the literary techniques that ancient writers employed in narrating stories of conquest, and the aim is to pinpoint their communicative intentions in their own contexts. This reading is enhanced by engagement with the important discipline of the philosophy of history. Ancient Conquest accounts, replete with extensive quotations from Assyrian, HiJournal for the study of the Old Testament.Supplement series ;98.HistoriographyMiddle EastHistoryMiddle EastHistoryElectronic books.HistoriographyHistory.939.40072Younger K. Lawson859991MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453705103321Ancient conquest accounts1918980UNINA