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Ahab Agonistes: The Rise and Fall of the Omri Dynasty
The European Seminar in Historical Methodology is committed to debating issues surrounding the history of ancient Israel and Judah with the aim of developing methodological principles for writing a history of the period.  In this particular session the topic chosen was the Omride dynasty-its rise and fall-and the subsequent Jehu dynasty, down to the fall of Samaria to the Assyrians.

Participants discuss such topics as the dating of prophetic texts, the house of Ahab in Chronicles, the Tel Dan inscription, the Mesha inscription, the Jezebel tradition, the archaeology of Iron IIB, the relationship between the biblical text and contemporary sources, and the nature of the Omride state.  The volume incidentally gives a reasonably comprehensive treatment of the main sources, issues, debates, and secondary literature on this period of Israel's history.  An introductory chapter summarizes the individual papers and also the relevant section of Mario Liverani's recent history of the period.  A concluding ‘Reflections on the Debate' summarizes the issues raised in the papers and provides a perspective on the discussion.



LHB/OTS volume 421 - ESHM volume 6

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Ahab Agonistes: The Rise and Fall of the Omri Dynasty
The European Seminar in Historical Methodology is committed to debating issues surrounding the history of ancient Israel and Judah with the aim of developing methodological principles for writing a history of the period.  In this particular session the topic chosen was the Omride dynasty-its rise and fall-and the subsequent Jehu dynasty, down to the fall of Samaria to the Assyrians.

Participants discuss such topics as the dating of prophetic texts, the house of Ahab in Chronicles, the Tel Dan inscription, the Mesha inscription, the Jezebel tradition, the archaeology of Iron IIB, the relationship between the biblical text and contemporary sources, and the nature of the Omride state.  The volume incidentally gives a reasonably comprehensive treatment of the main sources, issues, debates, and secondary literature on this period of Israel's history.  An introductory chapter summarizes the individual papers and also the relevant section of Mario Liverani's recent history of the period.  A concluding ‘Reflections on the Debate' summarizes the issues raised in the papers and provides a perspective on the discussion.



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Ahab Agonistes: The Rise and Fall of the Omri Dynasty

Ahab Agonistes: The Rise and Fall of the Omri Dynasty

Ahab Agonistes: The Rise and Fall of the Omri Dynasty

Ahab Agonistes: The Rise and Fall of the Omri Dynasty

Overview

The European Seminar in Historical Methodology is committed to debating issues surrounding the history of ancient Israel and Judah with the aim of developing methodological principles for writing a history of the period.  In this particular session the topic chosen was the Omride dynasty-its rise and fall-and the subsequent Jehu dynasty, down to the fall of Samaria to the Assyrians.

Participants discuss such topics as the dating of prophetic texts, the house of Ahab in Chronicles, the Tel Dan inscription, the Mesha inscription, the Jezebel tradition, the archaeology of Iron IIB, the relationship between the biblical text and contemporary sources, and the nature of the Omride state.  The volume incidentally gives a reasonably comprehensive treatment of the main sources, issues, debates, and secondary literature on this period of Israel's history.  An introductory chapter summarizes the individual papers and also the relevant section of Mario Liverani's recent history of the period.  A concluding ‘Reflections on the Debate' summarizes the issues raised in the papers and provides a perspective on the discussion.



LHB/OTS volume 421 - ESHM volume 6

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780567045409
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/28/2007
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies , #421
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Lester L. Grabbe is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull. He is founder and convenor of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology. A recent book is Ancient Israel:What Do We Know and How Do We Know it?

Andrew Mein is Lecturer in Old Testament at the University of Durham, UK.

Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series, as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles.

Table of Contents

I.  INTRODUCTION

LESTER L. GRABBE
Introduction

II. ARTICLES

HANS M. BARSTAD

Can Prophetic Texts Be Dated? Amos 1-2 as an Example


EHUD BEN ZVI

The House of Omri/Ahab in Chronicles


LESTER L. GRABBE

The Kingdom of Israel from Omri to the Fall of Samaria: If We Had Only the Bible . . .


ERNST AXEL KNAUF

Was Omride Israel a Sovereign State?


INGO KOTTSIEPER

The Tel Dan Inscription (KAI 310) and the Political Relations between Aram-Damascus and Israel in the First Half of the First Millennium BCE


ANDRÉ LEMAIRE

The Mesha Stele and the Omri Dynasty


NADAV NA'AMAN

Royal Inscription versus Prophetic Story: Mesha's Rebellion according to Biblical and Moabite Historiography


HERMANN MICHAEL NIEMANN

Royal Samaria-Capital or Residence? or: The Foundation of the City of Samaria by Sargon II


DAGMAR PRUIN

What Is in a Text?-Searching for Jezebel


THOMAS L. THOMPSON

A Testimony of the Good King: Reading the Mesha Stele


DAVID USSISHKIN

Samaria, Jezreel and Megiddo: Royal Centres of Omri and Ahab


DAVID A. WARBURTON

The Architecture of Israelite Temples



III. CONCLUSIONS



LESTER L. GRABBE

Reflections on the Discussion

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