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

Published London ; New York : T & T Clark International, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 381 Copenhagen international seminar ; 13 Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 381. Copenhagen international seminar ; 13. Contents An introduction : can a history of ancient Jerusalem and Palestine be written? / Thomas L. Thompson -- A moral reading of the Bible in Jerusalem / Michael Prior -- "House of David" : the Tel Dan inscription(s) / Niels Peter Lemche -- Expanding borders : the development of Jerusalem in the Iron age / Margreet Steiner -- Rome, Syria and the Jerusalem high priest : the international bases of the high priest's rule of the Jerusalem city-state : 175-63 BCE / Sara Mandell -- Herod and Jerusalem : the Hellenization of an Oriental city / John Strange -- Jerusalem in the time of the Kingdom of Judah / Firas Sawah -- Ethnic groups in Jerusalem / Lester L. Grabbe -- From Zion to Zion : Jerusalem in the Dead Sea scrolls / Philip R. Davies -- The making of the holy city : on the foundations of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible / Thomas M. Bolin -- Brothers fighting brothers : Jewish and Samaritan ethnocentrism in tradition and history / Ingrid Hjelm -- Holy war at the center of Biblical theology : shalom and the cleansing of Jerusalem / Thomas L. Thompson -- "Next year in Jerusalem" : Bible, identity and myth on the Web / David M. Gunn -- Imagining Jerusalem / Keith W. Whitelam Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. Antiquities Jerusalem in the Bible Bijbel. Heilige plaatsen. SUBJECT Jerusalem -- History -- Congresses Jerusalem -- Antiquities -- Congresses Jerusalem -- In the Bible -- Congresses Subject Middle East -- Jerusalem Israel Altertum Jerusalem Amman <2001> Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings History Form Electronic book Author Thompson, Thomas L., 1939- ISBN 9780567605061 056760506X

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