TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halpern,Baruch
TI  - The first historians: the Hebrew Bible and history 
SN  - 0866839909
AV  - BS1199.H5 H34 1988
U1  - ARCH FRBC 221.95 H195F  19
PY  - 1988///
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - Harper & Row
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Historiography
KW  - History
KW  - Biblical teaching
N1  - Includes bibliographies and index; Introduction: Darien: vistas in the history of Israel. Ch. 1. The trouble with history -- Ch. 2. As it really was: the history of the trouble -- Part 1: Romance and historiography: two cases of historiography in microcosm. Ch. 3. A message for Eglon: the case of Ehud ben-Gara -- Ch. 4. Sisera and old lace: the case of Deborah and Yael -- Part 2: Redaction and historiography: 'The lying pen of the scribes'. Ch. 5. The glass key: the problem of redaction in the Deuteronomistic history -- Ch. 6. The brass ring: the redaction carousel of the Book of Judges -- Ch. 7. Dr. Faustus or Mr. Hyde?: the problem of Solomon ben-David -- Ch. 8. The way of a snake on a rock?: the historian and the sources -- Part 3: Conclusions: Bible and Babel: the languages of history in Israel. Ch. 9. The grammar of history in DtrH -- Ch. 10. A mythed metaphor?: miracle in Israelite historiography -- Ch. 11. The Israelite historian: lyrical or logical?
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