A History of Biblical Israel - The Fate of the Tribes and Kingdoms from Merenptah to Bar Kochba - Ernst Axel Knauf
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A History of Biblical Israel - The Fate of the Tribes and Kingdoms from Merenptah to Bar Kochba - Ernst Axel Knauf
Ernst Axel Knauf [+]
University of Berne
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Ernst Axel Knauf is Associate Professor of the Old Testament and Biblical Studies at the University of Berne.
Philippe Guillaume [+]
University of Berne
Philippe Guillaume is Lecturer at the University of Berne. His latest publications are A History of Biblical Israel co-authored with Ernst Axel Knauf (Equinox, 2016) and Deuteronomy in the Making, Studies in the Production of Debarim, edited with Diana Edelman, Benedetta Rossi and Kåre Berge (De Gruyter, 2021).
Description
Defining the fundamentals: timespan, periodization, chronologies, history as the confrontation of sources, the constraint of the longue durée imposed by geography and climate, the distinction between conjonctures and events, Mediterranean economic systems, nomadism, the basic principle sicut Deus non daretur and the concept of biblical Israel