Ahab Agonistes The Rise and Fall of the Omri Dynasty [Hardcover]

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

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

ANDR? 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 ls0