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Virtual history and the Bible / edited by J. Cheryl Exum.

Contributor(s): Exum, J. Cheryl
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2000Description: 204 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004115552 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible -- History of Biblical events -- Miscellanea | Bible -- History of contemporary events -- Miscellanea | Bible -- Historiography -- MiscellaneaDDC classification: 220.9/5 LOC classification: BS635.2 | .V57 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Why virtual history? Alternatives, counterfactuals, and the Bible / J. Cheryl Exum -- 'Israel is laid waste: his seed is no more': what if Merneptah's scribes were telling the truth? / Keith W. Whitelam -- Adde Praeputium Praeputio Magnus Acervus Erit: if the Exodus and conquest had really happened / Lester L. Grabbe -- What if judges had been written by a Philistine? / Susan Ackerman -- If David had not climbed the Mount of Olives / Thomas L. Thompson -- Filling in historical gaps: how did Joram really die?, or, the invention of militarism / Ernst Axel Knauf -- Israel, Assyrian hegemony, and some considerations about virtual Israelite history / Ehud Ben Zvi -- What if we had no accounts of Sennacherib's third campaign or the palace reliefs depicting his capture of Lachish? / Diana Edelman -- The loss of Armageddon, or, 621 and all that: biblical fiction, biblical history and the rewritten Bible / Robert P. Carroll -- What if Zedekiah had remained loyal to his master? / Niels Peter Lemche -- A case of benign imperial neglect and its consequences / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- What if the Chronicler did use the Deuteronomistic history? / A. Graeme Auld -- If the Lord's anointed had lived / Philip R. Davies -- What if Luke had never met Theophilus? / Loveday C. A. Alexander -- What if Paul had travelled East rather than West? / Richard Bauckham -- Earliest Christianity in counterfactual focus / John Dominic Crossan -- If Jerusalem stood: the destruction of Jerusalem and Christian anti-Judaism / Pheme Perkins.

Includes bibliographical references.

Why virtual history? Alternatives, counterfactuals, and the Bible / J. Cheryl Exum -- 'Israel is laid waste: his seed is no more': what if Merneptah's scribes were telling the truth? / Keith W. Whitelam -- Adde Praeputium Praeputio Magnus Acervus Erit: if the Exodus and conquest had really happened / Lester L. Grabbe -- What if judges had been written by a Philistine? / Susan Ackerman -- If David had not climbed the Mount of Olives / Thomas L. Thompson -- Filling in historical gaps: how did Joram really die?, or, the invention of militarism / Ernst Axel Knauf -- Israel, Assyrian hegemony, and some considerations about virtual Israelite history / Ehud Ben Zvi -- What if we had no accounts of Sennacherib's third campaign or the palace reliefs depicting his capture of Lachish? / Diana Edelman -- The loss of Armageddon, or, 621 and all that: biblical fiction, biblical history and the rewritten Bible / Robert P. Carroll -- What if Zedekiah had remained loyal to his master? / Niels Peter Lemche -- A case of benign imperial neglect and its consequences / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- What if the Chronicler did use the Deuteronomistic history? / A. Graeme Auld -- If the Lord's anointed had lived / Philip R. Davies -- What if Luke had never met Theophilus? / Loveday C. A. Alexander -- What if Paul had travelled East rather than West? / Richard Bauckham -- Earliest Christianity in counterfactual focus / John Dominic Crossan -- If Jerusalem stood: the destruction of Jerusalem and Christian anti-Judaism / Pheme Perkins.

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