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Pre-Exilic Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology - Integrating Text and Artefact (Hardcover)
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Pre-Exilic Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology - Integrating Text and Artefact (Hardcover)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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The nature of historical and archaeological research is such that
biblical and archaeological evidence should both be taken into
account so that we can attain a more reliable reconstruction of
ancient Israel. Nowadays we are faced with numerous reconstructions
which are very often diametrically opposed to each other owing to
the different assumptions of scholars. An examination of certain
issues of epistemology in the current climate of postmodernism,
shows that the latter is self-defeating when it claims that we
cannot attain any true knowledge about the past.
Illustrations are taken from the history of pre-exilic Israel;
however, the indissoluble unity of text and artefact is made
clearer and more concrete through a detailed case study about the
location of the house of Rahab as depicted in Joshua 2: 15,
irrespective of whether this text is historical or not. Text and
artefact should work hand in hand even when narratives turn out to
be fictional, since thus there emerges a clearer picture of the
external world which the author would have had in mind.
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