The Historian and the Bible Essays in Honour of Lester L. Grabbe [Paperback]

Lester Grabbe is probably the most distinguished, and certainly the most prolific of historians of ancient Judaism, the author of several standard treatments and the founder of the European Seminar on Historical methodology. He has continued to set the bar for Hebrew Bible scholarship.

In this collection some thirty of his distinguished colleagues and friends offer their reflections on the practice and theory of history writing, on the current controversies and topics of major interest. This collection provides an opportunity for scholars of high caliber to consider groundbreaking ideas in light of Grabbe's scholarship and influence. This festschrift offers the reader a unique volume of essays to explore and consider the far-reaching influence of Grabbe on the field of Biblical studies as a whole.

Grabbe's distinguished colleagues and friends offer their reflections on the practice and theory of history writing, on the current controversies and topics of major interest.

Philip R. Davies is Professor of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield, UK.
Diana V. Edelman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield.

List of Abbreviations

THE EDITORS
Introduction

HANS BARSTAD
History and Memory. Some Reflections on the 'Memory Debate' in Relation to the Hebrew Bible

NIELS PETER LEMCHE
Postcolonial Studies and the Study of Israelite History.

NADAV NAAMAN
Text and Archaeology in a Period of Great Decline: The Contribution of the Amarna Letters to the Debate on the Historicity of Nehemiah's Wall

RAINER ALBERTZ
Secondary Sources Also Deserve to be Historically Evaluated: The Case of the United Monarchy

THOMAS L. THOMPSON
Reiterative Narrative and the Problem of the Exile

ANDR? LEMAIRE
Hazor in the Second Half of the 10th Century BCE: Historiography, Archaeology and History

MARIO LIVERANI
The Chronology of the Biblical Fairy-TalÃ*