Table of Contents

I.  INTRODUCTION

LESTER L. GRABBE
Introduction

II. ARTICLES

HANS M. BARSTAD Can Prophetic Texts Be Dated? Amos 1-2 as an Example   EHUD BEN ZVI The House of Omri/Ahab in Chronicles
LESTER L. GRABBE The Kingdom of Israel from Omri to the Fall of Samaria: If We Had Only the Bible . . .
ERNST AXEL KNAUF Was Omride Israel a Sovereign State?
INGO KOTTSIEPER The Tel Dan Inscription (KAI 310) and the Political Relations between Aram-Damascus and Israel in the First Half of the First Millennium BCE
ANDRÉ LEMAIRE The Mesha Stele and the Omri Dynasty   NADAV NA'AMAN Royal Inscription versus Prophetic Story: Mesha's Rebellion according to Biblical and Moabite Historiography
HERMANN MICHAEL NIEMANN Royal Samaria—Capital or Residence? or: The Foundation of the City of Samaria by Sargon II
DAGMAR PRUIN What Is in a Text?—Searching for Jezebel   THOMAS L. THOMPSON A Testimony of the Good King: Reading the Mesha Stele   DAVID USSISHKIN Samaria, Jezreel and Megiddo: Royal Centres of Omri and Ahab   DAVID A. WARBURTON The Architecture of Israelite Temples   III. CONCLUSIONS   LESTER L. GRABBE Reflections on the Discussion

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In this volume the European Seminar in Historical Methodology uses the period of the 9th and 8th centuries as a field for investigating the question of writing a history of Israel.  This period provides a striking example in which the biblical text can be compared with other written and artifactual sources.  Contributors explore a variety of aspects of the history of the period of Omri and Ahab and the following Jehu dynasty.  As a volume it provides a comprehensive picture of the sources, the historical problems, and the areas of major debate. 

About the Author

Lester L. Grabbe is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull. He is founder and convenor of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology. A recent book is Ancient Israel:What Do We Know and How Do We Know it?

Reviews

Mention - International Review of Biblical Studies, vol. 54:2007/08

"G. continues to edit highly useful collections of essays reassessing crucial periods of the history of ancient Israel." 32.5 (2008)
*Journal for the Study of the Old Testament*