Material Culture and Making Visible: On the Portrayal of Philistine Gath in the Book of Samuel
Over the past twenty years our understanding of Philistine Gath's history (Tell es-Safl) has been transformed by what has been revealed through the site's early Iron Age remains. But what has received much less attention is the effect these ruins have on how we read references to the locat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2018, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-27 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Philistines
/ Gath
/ Tell es-Safi
/ History
/ Bible. Samuel 1.
/ Bible. Samuel 2.
/ Archaeology
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HH Archaeology KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
early Iron Age period
B textual surfaces B David B Tell es-Safl B Book of Samuel B Gath |
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| Summary: | Over the past twenty years our understanding of Philistine Gath's history (Tell es-Safl) has been transformed by what has been revealed through the site's early Iron Age remains. But what has received much less attention is the effect these ruins have on how we read references to the location within the Hebrew Bible. The intent of this study is to draw on the archaeological evidence produced from Tell es-Safl as an interpretive lens by which to consider the biblical portrayal of the site rendered in the book of Samuel, where the material traces of more amicable associations between Gath and highland populations invite us to reconsider the city's depiction in this ancient literary work. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089215734732 |