Changing Perspectives I
Copenhagen International Seminar
General Editor: Thomas L. Thompson, University of Copenhagen
Editors: Niels Peter Lemche and Mogens Mller, both at the University of Copenhagen
Language Revision Editor: James West
Published in the series:
The Expression Son of Man and the Development of Christology
A History of Interpretation
Mogens Mller
Japheth ben Alis Book of Jeremiah
A Critical Edition and Linguistic Analysis of the Judaeo-Arabic Translation
Joshua A. Sabih
The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Emanuel Pfoh
Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament
A Study of Aetiological Narratives
ukasz Niesioowski-Span
Translated by Jacek Laskowski
Argonauts of the Desert
Structural Analysis of the Hebrew Bible
Philippe Wajdenbaum
Forthcoming:
Changing Perspectives II
History and Biblical Narrative
Thomas L. Thompson
Changing Perspectives III
Niels Peter Lemche
Changing Perspectives IV
History, Religion and IdeologyEssays on the Formation of the Hebrew Bible
Philip R. Davies
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Changing perspectives I : studies in the history, literature, and religion of biblical Israel/John Van Seters.
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1. Bible. O.T.Criticism, interpretation, etc. 2. Bible. O.T.History of contemporary events. 3. Bible. O.T.Theology. 4. Bible. O.T.Comparative studies. 5. JudaismHistoryTo 70 A.D. 6. JewsHistoryTo 586 B.C. 7. PalestineHistoryTo 70 A.D. I. Title. II. Title: Changing perspectives 1. III. Title: Studies in the history, literature, and religion of biblical Israel.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
The studies contained in this volume appeared originally in the following journals and collections of scholarly papers, and are reprinted here by the kind permission of the publishers and editors. They are listed in the order of their appearance in this volume.
1. A Date for the Admonitions in the Second Intermediate Period, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 50 (1964), 1323.
2. The Problem of Childlessness in Near Eastern Law, Journal of Biblical Literature 87 (1968), 401408.
3. Jacobs Marriages and Ancient Near East Customs: A Reexamination, Harvard Theological Review 62 (1969), 377395.
4. The Terms Amorite and Hittite in the Old Testament, Vetus Testamentum 22 (1972), 6481.
5. Joshuas Campaign of Canaan and Near Eastern Historiography, Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 4/2 (1990), 112.
6. Solomons Temple: Fact and Ideology in Biblical and Near Eastern Historiography, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 59 (1997), 4557.
7. The Chroniclers Account of Solomons Temple-Building: A Continuity Theme, in Patrick Graham et al. (eds), The Chronicler as Historian (JSOTS, 238; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), 283300.
8. The Geography of the Exodus, in J. A. Dearman and M. P. Graham (eds), The Land That I Will Show You: Essays in Honor of J. Maxwell Miller (JSOTS, 343; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001), 25576.
9. Confessional Reformulation in the Exilic Period, Vetus Testamentum 22 (1972), 448459.
10. The Conquest of Sihons Kingdom: A Literary Examination, Journal of Biblical Literature 91 (1972), 182197.
11. Once AgainThe Conquest of Sihons Kingdom, Journal of Biblical Literature 99 (1980), 117119.
12. Recent Studies on Pentateuchal Criticism: A Crisis in Method, a review article for The Journal of the American Oriental Society 99 (1979), 663673.
13. The So-called Deuteronomistic Redaction of the Pentateuch, in J. A. Emerton (ed.), Leuven Congress Volume 1989 (Vetus Testamentum Sup, 43; Leiden: Brill, 1991), 5877.
14. The Deuteronomistic Redaction of the Pentateuch: The Case against It, in M. Vervenne and J. Lust (eds), Deuteronomy and Deuteronomic Literature: Festscrift for C. Brekelmans (Leuven: Peeters, 1997), 301319.
15. The Theology of the Yahwist: A Preliminary Sketch, in I. Kottsieper et al. (eds), Wer ist du, Herr, unter den Gttern?: Studien zur Theologie und Religionsgeschichte Israels. Festschrift fr Otto Kaiser zum 70. Geburtstag (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Gttingen, 1995), 219228.
16. In the Babylonian Exile with J: Between Judgment in Ezekiel and Salvation in Second Isaiah, in B. Becking and M.C.A. Korpel (eds), The Crisis of Israelite Religion: Transformation of Religious Tradition in Exilic and Post-Exilic Times (OTS, 42; Leiden: Brill, 1999), 7189.
17. Divine Encounter at Bethel (Gen 28, 1022) in Recent Literary-Critical Study of Genesis, ZAW 110 (1998), 503513.
18. Problems in the Literary Analysis of the Court History of David, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 1 (1976), 2229.
19. Love and Death in the Court History of David, in J. H. Marks and R. M. Good (eds), Love and Death in the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of M. H. Pope (Guilford, CT: Four Quarters Publishing Co., 1987) in Love and Death in the Ancient Near East, Essays in Honor of M. H. Pope (1987), 121124.
20. The Deuteronomistic History: Can it Avoid Death by Redaction?, in T. Rmer (ed.), The Future of the Deuteronomistic History (BETL, 147; Leuven: Peeters, 2000), 213222.
