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Ancient Israel: A New History of Israel (Second Edition)

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ISBN: 9780567662781

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When this provocative text was first published, Lemche presented a new model of how we should understand Israelite society, its history and its religion. Follow Lemche’s argument that ‘Israel’ was the result of a social development among the Canaanite population of Palestine in the second half of the second millennium BCE. This implies that Israelite religion was originally ‘Canaanite’ and that what we think of as typically ‘Jewish’ religion did not arise until around 500 BCE. Lemche’s radical reassessment of Israelite history is based on the conviction that the Old Testament contains hardly any historical sources older than the seventh century BCE. The early history of Israel must therefore be reconstructed from archaeological results and non-biblical evidence, not from the Old Testament. In this new edition Lemche provides an extensive new introduction and bibliography, considering how the field has developed since the work first appeared.

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Niels Peter Lemche is professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of ten books and founder and editor of the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament. Dr. Lemche has received many grants and was head of the Copenhagen Dead Sea Scrolls Initiative until 1999.

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  1. Stephanus Karnadhi
    While its true that this book has new introduction and bibliography, in its own author's word: "This book is, apart from minor corrections, reprinted as it appeared in 1988. The author is aware of the changes in the field which have happened over the last ten years and which would perhaps warrant an almost totally new version rather than a revision of the original version. Nevertheless, from a methodological point of view the volume may still be considered the most coherent and up-to-date version of a History of Israel, and for that reason it was decided to change as little as possible." So, the presumptions are the same and all the arguments are the same as the 1988 edition, which are the old historical higher criticism.
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