Mount Zion, on the Sides of the North (eBook)

The Syrian and Anatolian roots of the biblical story

Davide Ventura (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
484 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
979-12-200-6409-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Some recent findings in the areas of Aleppo and Hama (Syria), dating back to the Neo-Hittite period (10th century BC), can be interpreted in a way that has the potential to shed a totally unexpected light upon the real sources of what the biblical story presents as the "e;United Monarchy"e; of David, Solomon and their purported successors.In opposition to the traditional "e;maximalist"e; school, which considers those stories as primary and reliable historical documents, but also to the more recent "e;minimalist"e; view that downplays the same stories as mere literary inventions, the book finds evidence to the possibility that the biblical narrative about the first kings of "e;Israel"e; does have a sound historical basis; but such a basis is not to be found anywhere near the Judean hills, where the later literary elaboration is set, but in the same Syrian, Neo-Hittite horizon of the archaeological findings cited above.Those traditions were most probably carried to Jerusalem during the late 8th century, in the wake of the Assyrian occupation of the Syrian area and of the massive displacement of population that it caused. A painstaking examination of the relevant biblical texts, and of all the extant extra-biblical sources, gives further evidence for that thesis.

Inhalt

1.    THE MAKING OF A TRADITION

2.    OF BOUNDS AND PROMISES

3.    OF THE HITTITES AND THEIR OFFSPRING

4.    OF THE NAME "PALESTINE"

5.    DAIDA KING OF PHALASTIN

6.    BIBLICAL GLIMPSES INTO A DARK AGE

7.    A BRIGAND BECOMES A KING

8.    FROM THE RIVER UNTO THE BORDER OF EGYPT

9.    A KINGDOM DIVIDED

10.    WHERE IS ISRAEL?

11.    ISRAEL IN BRONZE-AGE EGYPT?

12.    SEARCHING SAMARIA

13.    WHERE IS ARAM?

14.    THE SHADOWY KINGDOM OF YŠRˀL

15.    THE OTHER EXODUS

16.    TRACKING ABRAHAM

EPILOGUE

LINGUISTIC NOTES

LIST OF FIGURES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.7.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Ancient Israel • Biblical Archaeology • King David • Phalastin • Post-Hittite states • Sea Peoples • United Monarchy
• ISBN-13: 979-12-200-6409-5 / 9791220064095