Israel's History and the History of IsraelMario Liverani
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Description
PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED JULY 2007
One of Italy's foremost experts on antiquity addresses a new issue surrounding the birth of Israel and its historic reality. Many a tale has been told of ancient Israel, but all tales are alike in their quotation of the biblical story in its narrative scheme, despite its historic unreliability. This book completely rewrites the history of Israel through the evaluation of textual and literary critiques as well as archaeological and epigraphic findings. Conceived along the lines of modern historical methodology, it traces the textual material to the times of its creation, reconstructs the temporal evolution of political and religious ideologies, and firmly inserts the history of Israel into its ancient-oriental context.
PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED JULY 2007
One of Italy's foremost experts on antiquity addresses a new issue surrounding the birth of Israel and its historic reality. Many a tale has been told of ancient Israel, but all tales are alike in their quotation of the biblical story in its narrative scheme, despite its historic unreliability. This book completely rewrites the history of Israel through the evaluation of textual and literary critiques as well as archaeological and epigraphic findings. Conceived along the lines of modern historical methodology, it traces the textual material to the times of its creation, reconstructs the temporal evolution of political and religious ideologies, and firmly inserts the history of Israel into its ancient-oriental context.
Reviews
"There have been many histories of ancient Israel, but this one, from one of the world’s greatest ancient historians, is nothing less than a tour de force. Mario Liverani charts a sinuous and expert path through the minefield that has come to mark the discussion over how to reconstruct ancient Israelite history. He is fully up to date on all the evidence, Biblical, archaeological, broadly ancient Near Eastern, and the voluminous scholarship on it. And he makes a powerful argument that the task of history-writing must be considered along two lines: the history of Israel as reconstructed by a modern scholar from all of the evidence in the context of the ancient Near East overall, and the history of Israel as conceived by the Biblical authors themselves. Others have adumbrated this perspective, but Liverani is the first to carry it out comprehensively, showing us in a systematic, detailed way what these two histories look like: where they differ and where they overlap, and where and when in the history of Israel as reconstructed from all the evidence belong the ancient authors responsible for the Biblical history. Of course, no one will agree with all of Liverani’s arguments and conclusions. But no one, I venture to predict, will come away from reading him without being challenged, indeed exhilarated by the depth of his insights and the breadth of his vision."
Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Harvard University
"Liverani's intentions in offering an account of the biblical transformation of Israel's past 'from trivial event to significant re-elaboration' are to be commended. His book is an appropriate and exciting alternative to the biblical narrative."
Times Literary Supplement, June 23, 2006
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1904768768 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781904768760 |
| Price (Hardback) | £35.00/$75.00 |
| ISBN-10 (Paperback) | 1845533410 |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 9781845533410 |
| Price (Paperback) | £16.99/$29.95 |
| Publication Date | November 2005 |
| Pages | 416 |
| Size | 234 x 156mm |
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