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Near Eastern archaeology, the Old Testament, and new possibilities

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Ashgate
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English
Pages
292

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART I: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
1 Philosophical Archaeology and Ancient Texts
Introduction
Signs to the External World
Visual Predicates
Archaeology and Theology
Archaeology of Cult
Logical Archaeology
Catastrophe Archaeology and Mental States
Tablet and Text
2 The Old Testament and Literary Theory
Tablets, Texts and Literary Theories
The Status of Literary Theories
Mental Causes and Indeterminate Texts
The Principle of Excess
Holographic Meaning
Semiotic Serpents
'True' Interpretation
Polyphony, Fantasy and Mimesis
Psychological Conclusion
PART II: OLD TESTAMENT AND NEAR EAST INTERPRETATION
3 Does Genesis Contain 3rd-Millennium BC Text?
The Ebla Texts
Amalek, Sodom and Gomorrah
The Repha'im
The King of Giants
A Giant Obituary
Fertile Giants
Sumerian Creation at Ebla?
'Ur of the Chaldees'
Editorial Disagreement
4 Egyptian Texts and the Old Testament
The Presence of the Israelites
The Status of 'Silence'
General and Specific Evidence
Purely Literary Grounds?
An Egyptian Parallel with the Plagues?
Yahweh versus Who?
5 Generalizing about the Exodus Journey
Vagueness
Ten Commandments and Law Codes
Early Mesopotamian Amorite Laws
6 The Hebrew Conflict with Canaan
An Egyptian Province?
City Hebrews in Evidence
The Language of Conquest
Biblical and Ugaritic Gods
Yahweh at Kuntillet 'Ajrud
7 The Sense of Opposition in David
Contradiction
Conflicting and Irreconcilable
Who Killed which Goliath?
28 Military Theology
Particular Generalization
Elisha and the Iron Axe
Sennacherib
Sennacherib's Return to Nineveh
9 Babylonian and Aramaic Records of Daniel
Belshazzar and Nabonidus
'King' and 'Kingship'
Belshazzar's Father
Daniel's Date
10 Conclusion
Bibliography.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-292).

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Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT
Series
Ashgate new critical thinking in theology & biblical studies

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Dewey Decimal Class
221.9/3
Library of Congress
BS1180 .G48 2000

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Pagination
xiv, 292 p. :
Number of pages
292

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6801787M
ISBN 10
0754614603
LCCN
00134433
OCLC/WorldCat
44652340
Goodreads
5148544

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