Leading Experts Introduce the People and Contexts of the Old Testament
What people groups intera... more Leading Experts Introduce the People and Contexts of the Old Testament
What people groups interacted with ancient Israel? Who were the Hurrians and why do they matter? What do we know about the Philistines, the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and others?
In this up-to-date volume, leading experts introduce the peoples and places of the world around the Old Testament, providing students with a fresh exploration of the ancient Near East. The contributors offer comprehensive orientations to the main cultures and people groups that surrounded ancient Israel in the wider ancient Near East, including not only Mesopotamia and the northern Levant but also Egypt, Arabia, and Greece. They also explore the contributions of each people group or culture to our understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures.
This supplementary text is organized by geographic region, making it especially suitable for the classroom and useful in a variety of Old Testament courses. Approximately eighty-five illustrative items are included throughout the book.
Contents Introduction Bill T. Arnold and Brent A. Strawn 1. The Amorites Daniel E. Fleming 2. Assyria and the Assyrians Christopher B. Hays with Peter Machinist 3. Babylonia and the Babylonians David S. Vanderhooft 4. Ugarit and the Ugaritians Mark S. Smith 5. Egypt and the Egyptians Joel M. LeMon 6. The Hittites and the Hurrians Billie Jean Collins 7. Aram and the Arameans K. Lawson Younger Jr. 8. Phoenicia and the Phoenicians Christopher A. Rollston 9. Transjordan: The Ammonites, Moabites, and Edomites Joel S. Burnett 10. Philistia and the Philistines Carl S. Ehrlich 11. Persia and the Persians Pierre Briant 12. Arabia and the Arabians David F. Graf 13. Greece and the Greeks Walter Burkert† Indexes
description or account of their distribution and normally accepted date (61, 89-90o). Pottery is ... more description or account of their distribution and normally accepted date (61, 89-90o). Pottery is referred to, but little used in the text; in one instance a footnote reference to an article by Sidorova on archaic pottery is used to support a statement about the fifth century (80, n. 42)! The Tyritake and Uzunlyarsk dykes are used to delimit different phases of expansion of the Spartokid state, but they are neither described nor dated, except in footnotes, where other interpretations are alluded to (76-8, 135). Here, as also for ch. 2, maps of both sides of the Bosporos would have been desirable.
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What people groups interacted with ancient Israel? Who were the Hurrians and why do they matter? What do we know about the Philistines, the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and others?
In this up-to-date volume, leading experts introduce the peoples and places of the world around the Old Testament, providing students with a fresh exploration of the ancient Near East. The contributors offer comprehensive orientations to the main cultures and people groups that surrounded ancient Israel in the wider ancient Near East, including not only Mesopotamia and the northern Levant but also Egypt, Arabia, and Greece. They also explore the contributions of each people group or culture to our understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures.
This supplementary text is organized by geographic region, making it especially suitable for the classroom and useful in a variety of Old Testament courses. Approximately eighty-five illustrative items are included throughout the book.
Contents
Introduction
Bill T. Arnold and Brent A. Strawn
1. The Amorites
Daniel E. Fleming
2. Assyria and the Assyrians
Christopher B. Hays with Peter Machinist
3. Babylonia and the Babylonians
David S. Vanderhooft
4. Ugarit and the Ugaritians
Mark S. Smith
5. Egypt and the Egyptians
Joel M. LeMon
6. The Hittites and the Hurrians
Billie Jean Collins
7. Aram and the Arameans
K. Lawson Younger Jr.
8. Phoenicia and the Phoenicians
Christopher A. Rollston
9. Transjordan: The Ammonites, Moabites, and Edomites
Joel S. Burnett
10. Philistia and the Philistines
Carl S. Ehrlich
11. Persia and the Persians
Pierre Briant
12. Arabia and the Arabians
David F. Graf
13. Greece and the Greeks
Walter Burkert†
Indexes