Ancient Conquest Accounts - A Study in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History Writing (Paperback, NIPPOD)

Works on Old Testament historiography, the 'Conquest', and the origins of ancient Israel have burgeoned in recent days. But while others have been issuing new reconstructions this novel work presents a close reading of the biblical text. The focus is on the literary techniques that ancient writers employed in narrating stories of conquest, and the aim is to pinpoint their communicative intentions in their own contexts. This reading is enhanced by engagement with the important discipline of the philosophy of history. Ancient Conquest accounts, replete with extensive quotations from Assyrian, Hittite and Egyptian conquest accounts, is a learned and methodologically sensitive study of a wide range of ancient Near Eastern texts as well as of Joshua 9-12.

General

Imprint:	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	February 2009
Authors:	K. Lawson Younger Jr
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	383
Edition:	NIPPOD
ISBN-13:	978-0-567-55704-9
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-567-55704-9
Barcode:	9780567557049

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