02217ctm a2200289 a 45000010009000000050017000090060001000260070003000270080041000300100017000710200036000880200022001240350024001460400044001700420014002140500023002282450149002512600054004003000034004545000135004885040053006235051139006766500031018156500028018466510021018747000032018951576000120250312110749.0ta201015s2008    tnub     b    001 0 eng d  a  2009294938  a9780805446791 (pbk.) :cĐ11.60  a0805446796 (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)ocn259446130  aSPBcSPBdYDXCPdBTCTAdBAKERdDTMdDLC  alccopycat00aDS121.3b.I87 200800aIsrael :h[manuscript] :bancient kingdom or late invention? /cDaniel I. Block, editor, Brian H. Cribb and Gregory S. Smith, associate editors.  aNashville, Tenn. :bB & H Academic Group,cc2008.  axxi, 346 p. :bmaps ;c23 cm.  a"... the essays represent revised and updated versions of papers delivered at a conference in Louisville in January, 2004."--P. 1.  aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.0 aIsrael, Ancient kingdom or late invention? / Daniel I. Block -- The value and limitations of the Bible and archaeology / Alan R. Millard -- Contextual criticism as a framework for biblical interpretation / John M. Monson -- North-West Semitic inscriptions and biblical interpretation / Joel Drinkard -- From Joseph to David : Mari and Israelite pastoral traditions / Daniel E. Fleming -- Major geographical issues in the accounts of the Exodus / James K. Hoffmeier -- Slavery and slave laws in ancient Hatti and Israel / Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. -- Were the Israelites really Canaanites? / Alan R. Millard -- Syria and the Bible : the Luwian connection / Richard S. Hess -- David and Solomon's Jerusalem : do the Bible and archaeology disagree? / Alan R. Millard -- Who were Israel's Transjordanian neighbors and how did they differ? / Gerald L. Mattingly -- Shalmaneser III and Israel / K. Lawson Younger, Jr. -- Did the Israelites really learn their monotheism in Babylon? / Simon J. Sherwin -- Did Persian Zoroastrianism influence Judaism? / Edwin M. Yamauchi -- Interpreting the Bible as an ancient eastern document / John H. Walton. 0aJewsxHistoryyTo 586 B.C. 0aJewsxHistoryvSources. 0aIsraelxHistory.1 aBlock, Daniel Isaac,d1943-