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Joshua to Kings : history, story, theology / Mary E. Mills.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: T & T Clark approaches to biblical studiesEdition: Third editionDescription: viii, 193 pages : map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780567656469
  • 0567656462
  • 9780567656452
  • 0567656454
Uniform titles:
  • Historical Israel, biblical Israel.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 222.06 23
LOC classification:
  • BS1286.5 MIL 2016
Contents:
Historical issues. Joshua and the conquest of Canaan -- Judges and the society of ancient Israel -- 1 and 2 Samuel: social and political leadership -- 1 and 2 Kings and biblical archaeology -- History as story. Narrative art and the Deuteronomistic histories -- Tragedy and history -- Reading stories, finding women and men -- History as theology. A constitution for Israel -- The character of God -- The personhood of Israel -- Conclusion.
Summary: Joshua to Kings picks up the two aspects of the story told in the books from Joshua to 2 Kings, that of an actual historical society and that of a literary presentation of a nation, told from a religious perspective. By exploring the contents of these books the student is led into the use of basic tools for biblical study, such as historical criticism, narrative criticism and ideological criticism, in order to engage in a structured manner with the task of reading and interpreting biblical texts in the modern world. For this third edition the text has been revised and updated to take into account the changes and shifts in scholarship. Reading lists and bibliographies have been comprehensively revised--
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"First published as Historical Israel, biblical Israel: studying Joshua to 2 Kings, 1994"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.

Historical issues. Joshua and the conquest of Canaan -- Judges and the society of ancient Israel -- 1 and 2 Samuel: social and political leadership -- 1 and 2 Kings and biblical archaeology -- History as story. Narrative art and the Deuteronomistic histories -- Tragedy and history -- Reading stories, finding women and men -- History as theology. A constitution for Israel -- The character of God -- The personhood of Israel -- Conclusion.

Joshua to Kings picks up the two aspects of the story told in the books from Joshua to 2 Kings, that of an actual historical society and that of a literary presentation of a nation, told from a religious perspective. By exploring the contents of these books the student is led into the use of basic tools for biblical study, such as historical criticism, narrative criticism and ideological criticism, in order to engage in a structured manner with the task of reading and interpreting biblical texts in the modern world. For this third edition the text has been revised and updated to take into account the changes and shifts in scholarship. Reading lists and bibliographies have been comprehensively revised--

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