Prof. Dever's Last Tome: Much Ado about Things and Nothing? : A Review Article

In his recently published book, professor Dever breaks no new ground and adds no new insights into the ever-elusive remote past of the Israelites. Rather, he not only persists in his decades-old, and by-now pointless, scholarly tiff with the European minimalist school of biblical interpretation, but...

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Subtitles:Professor Dever's Last Tome
Main Author: Nathanson, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2018]
In: Scandinavian journal of the Old Testament
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 305-317
Review of:Beyond the texts (Atlanta : SBL Press, 2017) (Nathanson, Michael)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judah (Monarchy) / Israel (Motif) / Systems theory / The Postmodern / Theory of history / Prozessuale Archäologie / History
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HH Archaeology
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B Book review
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Summary:In his recently published book, professor Dever breaks no new ground and adds no new insights into the ever-elusive remote past of the Israelites. Rather, he not only persists in his decades-old, and by-now pointless, scholarly tiff with the European minimalist school of biblical interpretation, but argues, unconvincingly, for the superiority of archeological things as primary sources for writing a true history of ancient Israel. Confusingly, he ends his tome with a plea for integrating [minimalist] biblical hermeneutics with archaeological findings as a way forward to hopelessly construct yet another, but the truest of all histories.
ISSN:1502-7244
Contains:Enthalten in: Scandinavian journal of the Old Testament
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2018.1470852