The historian and the Bible : essays in honour of Lester L. Grabbe / edited by Philip R. Davies and Diana V. Edelman.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

History and memory : some reflections on the "memory debate" in relation to the Hebrew Bible / Hans M. Barstad -- Did a reform like Josiah's happen? / Niels Peter Lemche -- Text and archaeology in a period of great decline : the contribution of the Amarna letters to the debate on the historicity of Nehemiah's wall / Nadav Naʼaman -- Secondary sources also deserve to be historically evaluated : the case of the united monarchy / Rainer Albertz -- Reiterative narratives of exile and return : virtual memories of Abraham in the Persian and Hellenistic periods / Thomas L. Thompson -- Hazor in the second half of the tenth century B.C.E. : historiography, archaeology and history / André Lemaire -- The chronology of the biblical fairy-tale / Mario Liverani -- A contribution to the intellectual history of Yehud : the story of Micaiah and its function within the discourse of Persian-period literati / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Of priests and prophets and interpreting the past : the Egyptian ḥm-nt̲r and ḫry-ḥbt and the Judahite nāb̲îʼ / Diana V. Edelman -- Welcome home / H.G.M. Williamson -- "Here is a man whose name is Ṣemaḥ" (Zechariah 6:12) / Oded Lipschits -- Drought, hunger, and redistribution : a social economic reading of Nehemiah 5 / Bob Becking -- Footnotes to the rescript of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:11-26) / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- Aspects of Samaria's religious culture during the early Hellenistic period / Gary N. Knoppers -- Biblical references to Judean settlement in Eretz Israel (and beyond) in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods / Ernst Axel Knauf -- The Hebrew canon and the origins of Judaism / Philip R. Davies -- What makes a text historical? : assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea scrolls / George J. Brooke.

Grabbe's distinguished colleagues and friends offer their reflections on the practice and theory of history writing, on the current controversies and topics of major interest.

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