Jerusalem in ancient history and tradition / / edited by Thomas L. Thompson ; with the collaboration of Salma Khadra Jayyusi

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark International, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 221.9; 933
• Soggetto topico: Jerusalem in the Bible
• Soggetto geografico: Jerusalem History Congresses; Jerusalem Antiquities Congresses
• Altri autori: ThompsonThomas L. <1939->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Jerusalem in Ancient History and Tradition
• ISBN: 1-281-80269-7; 0-567-60506-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808705303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. . -Supplement series ; ; 381.; Copenhagen international seminar ; ; 13.