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
Editions and translations
Published in Blandford Forum: Deo, 2007.
Table of contents
- 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