02758nam 2200589Ia 450 991082499710332120230607222204.01-281-84188-997866118418810-567-56425-8(CKB)1000000000542305(EBL)437008(OCoLC)276839926(SSID)ssj0000216401(PQKBManifestationID)12029235(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216401(PQKBWorkID)10198250(PQKB)10083596(MiAaPQ)EBC437008(Au-PeEL)EBL437008(CaPaEBR)ebr10250841(CaONFJC)MIL184188(OCoLC)893334542(EXLCZ)99100000000054230520020520d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe origin of the history of Israel Herodotus's Histories as the blueprint for the first books of the Bible /Jan-Wim WesseliusLondon Sheffield Academic Pressc20021 online resource (193 p.)Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;345Description based upon print version of record.1-84127-267-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-167) and indexes.Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 TWO GREAT HISTORICAL WORKS; Chapter 2 A REMARKABLE PROCEDURE; Chapter 3 CONSEQUENCES FOR THE STUDY OF PRIMARY HISTORY; Chapter 4 CONSEQUENCES FOR THE STUDY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE; CONCLUSION: THE AUTHOR's ACHIEVEMENT; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of AuthorsThis book demonstrates that Primary History, the historical work contained in the first nine books of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis-2 Kings), was written as one unitary work, in deliberate emulation of the Greek-language Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus (completed c. 440 BCE); the diversity of its books and sections is largely a literary device. The work was most likely written in the period 440-420 BCE, in the period of reform usually associated with the name of Nehemiah. Though this thesis does not directly affect questions of historicity, understanding the literary nature of primary histJournal for the study of the Old Testament.Supplement series ;345.Bible as literatureBible as literature.221.67222.066Wesselius J. W(Jan Wim)1612749MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824997103321The origin of the history of Israel3941710UNINA