Historical Knowledge in Biblical Antiquity (2007 Neusner/Chilton/Green), edited volume

Historical Knowledge in Biblical Antiquity (2007) is a volume edited by Jacob Neusner, Bruce Chilton and William Scott Green.

Abstract

Published in Blandford Forum: Deo, 2007.

The task of history for ancient Israel / Bruce Chilton
Does history matter? Meaning-making and the first two Greek historians / Carolyn Dewald
Are the Dead Sea scrolls historical texts? / Lawrence H. Schiffman
History-writing in, and on the basis of, the Jewish apocalyptic literature / George W.E. Nickelsburg
Encountering the past through the works of Flavius Josephus / Steve Mason
The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism: what kinds of questions did the ancient rabbis answer? / Jacob Neusner
Interpreting legal history in the Mishnaic division of agriculture / Alan J. Avery-Peck
Archaeology and history: what archaeology can show about ethnic and religious regions in ancient Galilee / Mordechai Aviam (with William Scott Green)
In search of Jesus: issues of character / Bruce Chilton
Paul's thought and life / Bruce Chilton
James, Jesus' brother, and history / Bruce Chilton
Mary Magdalene and history / Bruce Chilton
Paul and Gamaliel / Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner
Historical questions and questioning history: can we write a history of Judaism in late antiquity? / Gary G. Porton
Different ways of looking at truth / William Scott Green