In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’: A Study in Biblical Origins
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Overview
The appearance of In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’ generated a still-raging controversy about the historical reality of what biblical scholars call ‘Ancient Israel’. Understand a critical perspective on Biblical history by its argument that not only takes in the problematic relationship between Iron Age Palestinian archaeology and the biblical ‘Israel’ but also outlines the processes that created the literature of the Hebrew bible-the ideological matrix, the scribal milieu, and the cultural adoption of a national literary archive as religious scripture as part of the process of creating ‘Judaisms’. As such, in this volume Philip R. Davies challenges the whole spectrum of scholarly consensus about the origins of ‘Israel’ and its scriptures, in a manner that is both learned and accessible. For this new edition Davies has provided a new extended introduction, in which he considers how the debate has raged since the book was first published, and in which he repositions this classic work within the present scholarly context.
- Title: In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’: A Study in Biblical Origins
- Author: Philip R. Davies
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: The Cornerstones Series
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Jews › History--To 70 A.D.--Historiography; Palestine › History--To 70 A.D.--Historiography
- ISBNs: 9780567662972, 9780567662989, 9780567662996, 0567662977, 0567662985, 0567662993
- Resource ID: LLS:SRCHNCNTBBLRGNS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-27T23:14:06Z
Philip R. Davies (1945–) is a biblical scholar with interests in early Judaism, ancient Israel, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. He earned degrees from Oxford University and the University of St. Andrews.
In 1974, Davies began teaching at the University of Sheffield, where he is now the Research Professor of Biblical Studies. He served as a co-founder of Sheffield Academic Press, the academic imprint based at the University of Sheffield.
Davies contributed volumes in several different collections including the Sheffield Reader Collection, Studies on the Prophets, and the Studies on Genesis. He has authored and edited several books and essays like First Person: Essays in Biblical Autobiography and The Bible in Human Society: Essays in Honor of John Rogerson.
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