David}}}s Jerusalem Between Memory and History [Hardcover]

The history of Davids Jerusalem remains one of the most contentious topics of the ancient world. This study engages with debates about the nature of this location by examining the most recent archaeological data from the site and by exploring the relationship of these remains to claims made about Davids royal center in biblical narrative. Daniel Pioske provides a detailed reconstruction of the landscape and lifeways of early 10th century BCE Jerusalem, connected in biblical tradition to the figure of David. He further explores how late Iron Age (the Book of Samuel-Kings) and late Persian/early Hellenistic (the Book of Chronicles) Hebrew literary cultures remembered Davids Jerusalem within their texts, and how the remains and ruins of this site influenced the memories of those later inhabitants who depicted Davids Jerusalem within the biblical narrative. By drawing on both archaeological data and biblical writings, Pioske calls attention to the breaks and ruptures between a remembered past and a historical one, and invites the reader to understand Davids Jerusalem as more than a physical location, but also as a place of memory.

Introduction: Place, Memory, and the History of Davids Jerusalem  1. Between Memory and Modernity: Retracing the Traces of an Ancient Past  2. Davids Jerusalem in Samuel-Kings: Commemorating a Davidic Past  3. Davids Jerusalem in The Book of Chronicles: Redressing the Past  4. Davids Jerusalem: The Early 10^thCentury BCE, Part I. An Agrarian Community  5. Davids Jerusalem: The Early 10^thCentury BCE, Part II. Stronghold and Ideological Apparatus  6. Conclusion

Pioskes study uniquely combines critical understanding of the archaeology of ancient Israel with sound, genre-sensitive interpretation of the biblical text, while fully conversant with current trends in historical theory. The result is not only an explñ