Jerusalem In Ancient History And Tradition

An international team of leading historians, archaeologists and biblical scholars explore fresh perspectives on the history of ancient Jerusalem and its relationship to biblical tradition. Contributors include: Thomas L. Thompson, Michael Prior, Niels Peter Lemche, Margreet Steiner, Sara Mandell, John Strange, Lester Grabbe, Philip Davies, Thomas M. Bolin, Ingrid Hjelm, David Gunn and Keith Whitelam. Book jacket.

Thomas L. Thompson is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Copenhagen.

Foreword

vii

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvi

Abbreviations

xviii

List of Contributors

xxi

An Introduction: Can a History of Ancient Jerusalem and Palestine be Written?

1

(15)

Thomas L. Thompson

A Moral Reading of the Bible in Jerusalem

16

(30)

Michael Prior

`House of David': The Tel Dan Inscription(s)

46

(22)

Niels Peter Lemche

Expanding Borders: The Development of Jerusalem in the Iron Age

68

(12)

Margreet Steiner

Rome, Syria and the Jerusalem High Priest: The International Bases of the High Priest's Rule of the Jerusalem City-State: 175--63 BCE

80

(17)

Sara Mandell

Herod and Jerusalem: The Hellenization of an Oriental City

97

(17)

John Strange

Jerusalem in the Time of the Kingdom of Judah

114

(31)

Firas Sawah

Ethnic Groups in Jerusalem

145

(19)

Lester L. Grabbe

From Zion to Zion: Jerusalem in the Dead Sea Scrolls

164

(7)

Philip R. Davies

The Making of the Holy City: On the Foundations of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible

171

(26)

Thomas M. Bolin

Brothers Fighting Brothers: Jewish and Samaritan Ethnocentrism in Tradition and History

197

(26)

Ingrid Hjelm

Holy War at the Center of Biblical Theology: Shalom and the Cleansing of Jerusalem

223

(35)

Thomas L. Thompson

`Next Year in Jerusalem': Bible, Identity and Myth on the Web

258

(14)

David M. Gunn

Imagining Jerusalem

272

(18)

Keith W. Whitelam

Index of References

290

Index of Authors

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