Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: An Introduction (The Biblical Seminar, vol. 83)
Overview
This unusually comprehensive textbook represents the most recent approaches to the biblical world by surveying Palestine's social, political, economic, religious and ecological changes from Paleolithic to Roman eras. Designed for beginners with little knowledge of the ancient world, and with copious illustrations and charts, this volume explains how and why academic study of the past is undertaken, as well as the differences between historical and theological scholarship and the differences between ancient and modern genres of history writing. Classroom tested chapters emphasize the authenticity of the Bible as a product of an ancient culture, and the many problems with the biblical narrative as a historical source. Neither "maximalist" nor "minimalist'" it is sufficiently general to avoid confusion and to allow the assignment of supplementary readings such as biblical narratives and ancient Near Eastern texts.
Top Highlights
“During the fifteenth century bce, a place in Edom was called Yahu in the land of shasu. Yahu is a shortened form of the divine name Yahweh, a kind of nickname. It was not uncommon for places to be named after the god worshiped in the area. Apparently, there were some Yahweh worshipers living on the southern edges of Canaan in the Late Bronze Age.” (Page 122)
“Tiw(=Mars)-day, Woden(=Mercury)-day, Thor(=Jupiter)-day, Freya(=Venus)-day. The biblical creation story in Genesis 1 is a ‘de-mythologized’ explanation for a seven-day week, but the seven-day week was already common centuries before Genesis 1 was written.” (Page 25)
“The literature of the Bible was the literature of the wealthy, which is no surprise, since only the wealthy could have read it.” (Page 54)
“he Bronze Age gets its name from the art of adding a little tin to copper to make a harder metal called bronze.” (Page 94)
“Canaan bowed ‘seven times and seven times’ before their god, their sun, the king of Egypt.” (Page 119)
- Title: Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: An Introduction
- Author: K. L. Noll
- Series: The Biblical Seminar
- Volume: 83
- Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
- Print Publication Date: 2001
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bronze age › Palestine; Iron age › Palestine; Palestine › History--To 70 A.D; Palestine › Antiquities
- ISBNs: 9781841272580, 9780567097224, 9780567182586, 9780567204882, 1841272582, 0567097226, 0567182584, 056720488X
- Resource ID: LLS:CANAANISRLANT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:29:24Z