Finding Myth and History in the Bible - Scholarship, Scholars and Errors - Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano
Farewell to the 'Blind and Lame‹' (2 Sam. 5:6-10)
Finding Myth and History in the Bible - Scholarship, Scholars and Errors - Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano
Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano [+]
University of Warsaw
Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, Ph.D. (2002), Habil. (2013), Assistant Professor in the Institute of History, University of Warsaw. Specializes in history and religion of Ancient Palestine, and Biblical historiography; recently published extensively on the Sea Peoples. Published a book: Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament. A Study of Aetiological Narratives, (London: Equinox, 2011); Goliath’s Legacy. Philistines and Hebrews in Biblical Times (forthcoming). Editor-in-chief of the “Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History”.
Description
The essays collected in this volume focus on methodological and historical topics related to the study of the history of Ancient Israel. Contributors offer readers new readings of disputed texts, new methodological tools for study of the ancient world inhabited by an entity called âIsraelâ, and a variety of reinterpretations of biblical texts. Edited by Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano, Chiara Peri, and Jim West contributions by Thomas L. Thompson, Philip Davies, Niels Peter Lemche, Etienne Nodet, Mario Liverani, and many other leading academics are included.