Ancient Conquest Accounts - (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) by K Lawson Younger Jr (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Works on Old Testament historiography, the 'Conquest', and the origins of ancient Israel have burgeoned in recent days.
- About the Author: Dr. K. Lawson Younger, Jr.
- 383 Pages
- History, Ancient
- Series Name: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Description
Book Synopsis
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, Hittite and Egyptian conquest accounts, is a learned and methodologically sensitive study of a wide range of ancient Near Eastern texts as well as of Joshua 9-12.
About the Author
Dr. K. Lawson Younger, Jr. Prof. of Old Testament, Semitic Languages, and Ancient Near Eastern History at Trinity International University Divinity School