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    <title>Israel</title>
    <subTitle>ancient kingdom or late invention?</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Block, Daniel Isaac</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1943-</namePart>
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    <publisher>B &amp; H Academic Group</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2008</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2008</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxi, 346 p. : maps ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Israel, 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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Daniel I. Block, editor, Brian H. Cribb and Gregory S. Smith, associate editors.</note>
  <note>"... the essays represent revised and updated versions of papers delivered at a conference in Louisville in January, 2004."--P. 1.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and indexes.</note>
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    <topic>Jews</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>To 586 B.C</temporal>
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    <topic>Jews</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <topic>Sources</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Israel</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">DS121.3 .I87 2008</classification>
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