Inhabiting the promised land : exploring the complex relationship between archaeology and Ancient Israel as depicted in the Bible / / Margreet L. Steiner
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| Autore: |
Steiner Margreet
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| Titolo: |
Inhabiting the promised land : exploring the complex relationship between archaeology and Ancient Israel as depicted in the Bible / / Margreet L. Steiner
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; Philadelphia : , : Oxbow Books, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 220.93 |
| Soggetto topico: | Excavations (Archaeology) - Israel |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "The aim of this book is to describe the often-complicated relationship between archaeology and the Bible. It is not a book on `biblical archaeology', and archaeology is not used to illustrate the biblical stories, let alone to prove that the Bible is right. On the contrary, it focuses on the information that archaeology can provide of the lives and beliefs of the ancient peoples that inhabited the land in which the Bible was written, and on the question of how this information relates to the biblical stories. It aims at providing some examples of how this interplay of archaeology and biblical stories works, and how to interpret the discrepancy that may exist between the results of archaeological research and the biblical narrative. It thus offers an introduction into the field from the standpoint of an archaeologist"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Inhabiting the promised land |
| ISBN: | 1-78925-333-0 |
| 1-78925-331-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910829132903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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