Remembering Abraham : culture, memory, and history in the Hebrew Bible /

The Hebrew Bible is a vast compendium of writings, spanning a thousand year period from roughly the 12th to the second century BCE, and representing perhaps a small slice of the writings of that period. This title represents the mature thought of one of our leading scholars of the Hebrew Bible.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hendel, Ronald S.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:	Bible. > Old Testament > Historiography. Bible. > Old Testament Bibel > Altes Testament Ethnicity in the Bible. Jews > Identity. Ethnicité dans la Bible. Juifs > Identité. 11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament. RELIGION > Biblical Criticism & Interpretation > Old Testament. Ethnicity in the Bible Historiography Jews > Identity Kollektives Gedächtnis Israel > Altertum Oude Testament. Etnisch bewustzijn. Geschiedschrijving. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Israel among the nations : biblical culture in the Ancient Near East
Remembering Abraham
Historical memories in the patriarchal narratives
The Exodus in biblical memory
The archaeology of memory : Solomon, history, and biblical representation
The biblical sense of the past
Linguistic notes on the age of biblical literature.