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The first historians : the Hebrew Bible and history / Baruch Halpern.
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TextPublication details: San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1988.Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 285 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0866839909
- 9780866839907
- ARCH FRBC 221.95 H195F 19
- BS1199.H5 H34 1988
Contents:
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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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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