Nadav Na’aman’s recent dating of the Deuteronomic Law by social history is methodologically seminal, even if I disagree with the substance of his argument. In this article, I advance the case ...that the care of Deuteronomy for the ‘displaced Judahite” (גר) fits the 6th century much better than the 7th, as Na’aman argues.
The book of Samuel tells the story of the origins of kingship in Israel in what seems to be an artistically structured, flowing narrative. Yet it is also marked by an inconsistent outlook, divergent ...styles, and breaks in the narrative. According to Noth’s Deuteronomistic History hypothesis, the Deuteronomistic historian constructed the narrative by piecing together early sources and generally refrained from commenting in his own voice. Recent studies have called into question the extent of Samuel’s sources and their redaction history, as well as the textual growth of the book as a whole. The essays in this book, representing the latest scholarship on this subject, reexamine whether the book of Samuel was ever part of a Deuteronomistic History. The contributors are A. Graeme Auld, Hannes Bezzel, Philip R. Davies, Walter Dietrich, Cynthia Edenburg, Jeremy M. Hutton, Jürg Hutzli, Ernst Axel Knauf, Reinhard Müller, Richard D. Nelson, Christophe Nihan, K. L. Noll, Juha Pakkala, and Jacques Vermeylen.
In this volume honoring Tel Aviv University archaeologist David
Ussishkin, colleagues and students representing some of the major
names in the field today present 25 essays on a variety of topics
of ...interest to the honoree. The contributions cover a range of
periods from the Late Bronze Age through the Persian period and
disparate subjects such as Judahite bullae, destruction levels at
Megiddo, a diversity of results from various tells in Israel (and
one in Jordan), Egyptian influence on Canaan, the city of Jerusalem
and its temple, and much on the archaeology of the Shephelah, an
area of particular interest to the honoree-who is best known for
his excavations at Tell ed-Duweir, the site of biblical Lachish.
The volume takes its title from a reference in one of the Lachish
ostraca.
From 1966 until his retirement in 2004, David Ussishkin taught
in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
at Tel Aviv University. Between 1975 and 1978, he served as Chair
of the Department, and between 1980 and 1984 as the Director of the
Institute of Archaeology. In 1996, he was nominated incumbent of
the Austria Chair in Archaeology of the Land of Israel in the
Biblical Period. He served as the editor of Tel Aviv: The
Journal of Archaeology of Tel Aviv Univers ity for 30
years.
Samuel among the Prophets Ernst Axel Knauf
Is Samuel among the Deuteronomists,
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Book Chapter
The book of Samuel is placed in the (Former) Prophets following Judges and leading into Kings. It consists of 1,506 verses¹ and ranks in length after Psalms (2,527 verses), Chronicles (1,765 verses), ...Genesis (1,534 verses), and Kings (1,534 verses). The narrative sequence Joshua–Kings (actually, Genesis–Kings) was implicitly understood as “historiography” by the Chroniclers (third–second centuries B.C.E.)² and has been explicitly viewed as historiography since the time of Josephus (C. Ap.1.37–43). Only recently Western scholars have started to ponder the question why this “historiography” was included in the division of the Prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
