Israel: Ancient Kingdom or Late Invention?
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Israel: Ancient Kingdom or Late Invention? is a collection of essays responding to the radical claims that Israel and its history actually began following the Babylonian exile, and that the history of Israel we read about in the Bible is a fictionalized account.
Contributors are leading Bible and archaeology scholars who bring extra-biblical evidence to bear for the historicity of the Old Testament and provide case studies of new work being done in the field of archaeology and Old Testament studies.
- Introduces readers to critical issues facing all interpreters of Scripture, and to more than a dozen leading evangelical scholars whose writings go beyond the boundaries of evangelical Christianity
- Demonstrates how the shape and texture of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, were affected by the world in which Israel lived
- Invites readers to enter the world in which Israel was established to discover new depths of meaning in the sacred Scriptures of Israel and the church
Top Highlights
“The cessation of worship at the Late Bronze Age sites, the absence of clear cultic installations in the hill villages, and the rise of the worship of the God of Israel may be pointers to the entry into Canaan of large numbers of a new population, the Israelites.” (Page 167)
“Prior to the nineteenth century the only written resources available to historians of ancient Israel were the Bible and derivative texts, like the apocryphal writings and the works of Josephus.” (Page 2)
“ One practice for which the Phoenicians were infamous in antiquity was child sacrifice through fire.” (Page 164)
“A third component of original context is the physical setting of the biblical authors and the events that they recorded” (Page 29)
“The first question is not, ‘What do I think or feel about this passage?’ but ‘What does the passage actually say?’” (Page 36)
- Title: Israel: Ancient Kingdom or Late Invention?
- Author: Daniel I. Block
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jews › History--To 586 B.C; Jews › Histroy--Sources; Israel › History
- ISBNs: 9781087795164, 9780805449709, 0805449701, 1087795168
- Resource ID: LLS:9780805449709
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-09T19:00:24Z
Dr. Daniel Block, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, has been teaching God’s Word for more than 30 years.
It has been a special joy for Dr. Block to watch students, who often take introductory courses in Old Testament only because they are required to do so by the curriculum, suddenly awaken to the fact that the Old Testament is understandable and its message is both life-giving and relevant for modern, everyday life.
Dr. Block has published a number of books and essays in scholarly journals. The paradigm for his research and ministry is set by Ezra, as described in Ezra 7:10: he committed himself to the study the Torah of Yahweh, to put it into practice, and to teach his revealed will in Israel. This means constantly asking serious questions of the Scriptures: What does the text say? Why does the text say it like that? What did the text mean to the original audience? What does the text have to say to me today? In order to answer these questions, one needs to understand both the worlds out of which the biblical texts arose and the worlds in which modern people live.