Ancient Conquest Accounts: A Study in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History Writing: 98 (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) - Softcover

Younger Jr., K. Lawson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567557049 ISBN 13: 9780567557049

Verlag: Sheffield Academic Press, 2009

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Reseña del editor:

Works 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, Hittite and Egyptian conquest accounts, is a learned and methodologically sensitive study of a wide range of ancient Near Eastern texts as well as of Joshua 9-12.

Biografía del autor:

Dr. K. Lawson Younger, Jr. Prof. of Old Testament, Semitic Languages, and Ancient Near Eastern History at Trinity International University Divinity School

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• Verlag: Sheffield Academic Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0567557049
• ISBN 13: 9780567557049
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392