The Bible's grand narrative about Israel's Exodus from Egypt is
central to Biblical religion, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim
identity and the formation of the academic disciplines studying the
ancient Near East. It has also been a pervasive theme in artistic
and popular imagination.Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary
Perspectiveis a pioneering worksurveying this tradition in
unprecedented breadth, combiningarchaeological discovery,
quantitative methodology and close literary reading.
Archaeologists, Egyptologists, Biblical Scholars, Computer
Scientists, Geoscientists and other experts contribute their
diverse approaches in a novel, transdisciplinary consideration of
ancient topography, Egyptian and Near Eastern parallels to the
Exodus story, the historicity of the Exodus, the interface of the
Exodus question with archaeological fieldwork on emergent Israel,
the formation of biblical literature, and the cultural memory of
the Exodus in ancient Israel and beyond.
This edited volume contains research presented at the
groundbreaking symposium"Out of Egypt: Israel s Exodus Between Text
and Memory, History and Imagination"""held in 2013at the Qualcomm
Institute of the University of California, San Diego. The
combination of 44 contributions by an international group of
scholars from diverse disciplines makes this the first such
transdisciplinary study of ancient text and history. In the
original conference and with this new volume, revolutionary media,
such as a 3D immersive virtual reality environment, impart
innovative, Exodus-based research to a wider audience. Out of
archaeology, ancient texts, science and technology emergean
up-to-date picture of the Exodus for the21stCentury and a new
standard for collaborative research."
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