Rethinking the foundations : historiography in the ancient world and in the Bible : essays in honour of John Van Seters / edited by Steven L. McKenzie and Thomas Römer in collaboration with Hans Heinrich Schmid.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Selections in German, French, and English.

Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Freund und Kollege -- A Tribute to John Van Seters -- Tradition and History: The Scholarship of John Van Seters -- Samuel and Genesis: Some Questions of John Van Seters�s “Yahwist� -- Noch einmal: Jakobs Traum in Bethel � Genesis 28,10�22 -- Hosea and the Wilderness Wandering Tradition -- The Parable of Nathan (II Sam. 12,1�4) and the Theory of Semiosis -- Gott als Lenker des menschlichen Schicksals in Platons Nomoi -- The Preferential Status of the Eldest Son Revoked? -- Good and Bad in History: The Greek Connection

The Law of the Altar in Deuteronomy and the Cultic Site Near ShechemAbraham: The Priestly Writer�s “Ecumenical� Ancestor -- New Light on Egypt�s Stance Towards Asia, 610�586 BCE -- Wie sieht Israel seine Geschichte? -- Du Temple au Livre. L�idéologie de la centralisation dans l�historiographie deutéronomiste -- “The Lord of Hosts, Seated over the Cherubs� -- Die Erz�hlung vom Goldenen Kalb Ex. 32* und das Deuteronomistische Geschichtswerk -- Rubeniten als exemplarische Aufr�hrer in Num. 16f*/Deut. 11 -- The Problem of Myth in Ancient Historiography

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