02886nam 2200661Ia 450 991095891670332120250717222330.097866118032789781281803276128180327897805674883670567488365(CKB)1000000000542171(EBL)437042(OCoLC)276934807(SSID)ssj0000334669(PQKBManifestationID)11241569(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000334669(PQKBWorkID)10270958(PQKB)11529936(Au-PeEL)EBL437042(CaPaEBR)ebr10250973(CaONFJC)MIL180327(OCoLC)893334645(Perlego)803798(MiAaPQ)EBC437042(EXLCZ)99100000000054217119900723d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAncient conquest accounts 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.9780567557049 0567557049 9781850752523 1850752524 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 EastHistoryHistoriographyHistory.939.40072Younger K. LawsonJr.1595040MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910958916703321Ancient conquest accounts4409267UNINA