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Ancient conquest accounts : a study in ancient Near Eastern and biblical history writing /
Works on Old Testament historiography, the 'Conquest', and the origins of ancient Israel have burgeoned in recent days. But while others have been issuing new reconstructions this novel work presents a close reading of the biblical text. The focus is on the literary techniques that ancient...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sheffield :
JSOT Press,
1990.
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| Colección: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;
98. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Works on Old Testament historiography, the 'Conquest', and the origins of ancient Israel have burgeoned in recent days. But while others have been issuing new reconstructions this novel work presents a close reading of the biblical text. The focus is on the literary techniques that ancient writers employed in narrating stories of conquest, and the aim is to pinpoint their communicative intentions in their own contexts. This reading is enhanced by engagement with the important discipline of the philosophy of history. Ancient Conquest accounts, replete with extensive quotations from Assyrian, Hi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (392 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-358) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780567488367 0567488365 1281803278 9781281803276 9786611803278 6611803270 |
| ISSN: | 0309-0787 ; |