Memories of Ancient Israel(English, Paperback, Davies Philip R.)

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Memories of Ancient Israel(English, Paperback, Davies Philip R.) is written by Davies Philip R. and published by Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0664232884 (ISBN 10) and 9780664232887 (ISBN 13).

Recent years have seen an explosion of writing on the history of Israel, prompted largely by definitive archaeological surveys and attempts to write a genuine archaeological history of ancient Israel and Judah. The scholarly world has also witnessed an intense confrontation between so-called minimalists and maximalists over the correct approach to the historicity of the Bible. Memories of Ancient Israel looks at the issues at stake in biblical history--the ideologies involved, the changing role of archaeology, and the influence of cultural contexts both ancient and modern. Philip Davies suggests a different way of defining the problem of "reliability" and "historicity" by employing the theory of cultural memory. In doing so, he provides a better explanation of how ancient societies constructed their past but also a penetrating insight into the ideological underpinnings of today's scholarly debates.