The Historical Books

by J. Cheryl Exum

Publisher:

Sheffield Academic Press

, 1997

Overview

This volume assembles a broad selection of essays from the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament on the historical books. Split into three sections, “Joshua, Judges Ruth,” “Samuel, Kings,” and “Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah,” the volume features contributions from some of the finest scholars in the field. Included are works by Keith W. Whitelam (“The Identity of Early Israel: The Realignment and Transformation of Late Bronze-Iron Age Palestine”), Frank Anthony Spina (“Eli’s Seat: The Transition from Priest to Prophet in 1 Samuel 1-4”), Sara Japhet (“The Historical Reliability of Chronicles: The History of the Problem and its Place in Biblical Research”), and others.

Product Details

• Title: The Historical Books
• Author: J. Cheryl Exum
• Publisher: Sheffield
• Publication Date: 1997
• Pages: 383

About J. Cheryl Exum

J. Cheryl Exum (Ph.D.) is professor of biblical studies at the University of Sheffield. She received her BA, summa cum laude, from Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and her MA and PhD, with distinction, from Columbia University in New York. As a doctoral student, she spent a year studying theology and German literature at the University of Göttingen. Before her appointment to a personal chair in Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield in 1993, she taught at Yale University (1975-77) and Boston College (1977-1993). She has done research in Israel (first as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and later as a Visiting Research Associate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and in Germany (as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Göttingen and in Heidelberg).

From 2003 to 2005 she was Director of the University of Sheffield’s Centre for the Study of the Bible in the Modern World. In 2004, with two Sheffield colleagues, David J.A. Clines and Keith W. Whitelam, she founded Sheffield Phoenix Press, now a leading publisher in the field of Biblical Studies.The author of numerous scholarly works on the Hebrew Bible, her books include Tragedy and Biblical Narrative, Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives as well as Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives. She is executive editor of the journal Biblical Interpretation and a director of Sheffield Phoenix Press.