In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel

by John Day

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2004

Overview

In recent years there has been a tendency among certain scholars, such as Philip Davies, Thomas Thompson, and Niels Peter Lemche, to claim that little can be known about pre-exilic Israel, because the Old Testament was only compiled in the post-exilic period. One scholar (Lemche) has even claimed that the Old Testament is a Hellenistic work. The purpose of In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel is to argue that this is an extreme and untenable position and that, though much of the Old Testament was indeed edited in the exilic or post-exilic period, many of the underlying sources go back to the pre-exilic period and, when critically analyzed, can shed much light on that period. This volume surveys not only historiography but also various aspects of what can be known of pre-exilic prophecy, law, wisdom, and psalmody. This important work is the product of a team of seventeen international scholars, no fewer than five of whom are fellows of the British Academy.

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Key Features

• Seventeen essays by international scholars
• Preface by the editor
• Bibliographical references and indexes

Contributors

• John Barton
• Graham Davies
• John Day
• Katharine J. Dell
• William G. Dever
• J. A. Emerton
• Terry Fenton
• Anthony J. Frendo
• Walter Houston
• Gary N. Knoppers
• W. G. Lambert
• André Lemaire
• Bernard M. Levinson
• B. A. Mastin
• Ernest Nicholson
• David J. Reimer
• H. G. M. Williamson

Product Details

• Title: In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel
• Editor: John Day
• Publisher: T & T Clark
• Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 433

About John Day

John Day is an English Old Testament scholar. He is Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford. He is the editor of In search of pre-exilic Israel and wrote God’s Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea. He is also Fellow, Tutor in Theology, and Dean of Degrees at Lady Margaret Hall.