Author: Holloway, Steven Winford ; & Handy, Lowell K. ; editors:
Title: The Pitcher Is Broken : Memorial Essays for Gosta W. Ahlstrom
Description: Sheffield [UK], Sheffield Academic Press, (1995). orig. boards, dustwrapper. 474 pp,, 23x15cm, Series: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 190.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents : Zephaniah ben Cushi and Cush of Benjamin : traces of Cushite presence in Syria-Palestine / Roger W. Anderson, Jr. -- Discerning the time : Haggai, Zechariah and the ’delay’ in the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple / Peter Ross Bedford -- Inclusion in and exclusion from Israel as conveyed by the use of the term ’Israel" in post-monarchic biblical texts / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Temple and bamah : some considerations / Janice E. Catron -- Solomon’s adversaries Hadad, Rezon and Jeroboam : a trio of ’bad guy’ characters illustrating the theology of immediate retribution / Diana V. Edelman -- Cult images, royal policies and the origins of aniconism / Carl D. Evans -- Site planning and subsistence economy : Negev settlements as a case study / Israel Finkelstein and Yitzhak Zilberman -- United monarchy--divided monarchy : fact or fiction? /Margaret M. Gelinas -- ’Cush’ in Zephaniah / Robert D. Haak -- Historical probability and the narrative of Josiah’s reform in 2 Kings / Lowell K. Handy -- Harran : cultic geography in the neo-Assyrian empire and its implications for Sennacherib’s ’Letter to Hezekiah’ in 2 Kings / Steven W. Holloway -- Joshua 7 : a reassessment of Israelite conceptions of corporate punishment / Joel S. Kaminsky -- Ruth : an exercise in Israelite political correctness or a call to proper conversion? / Peter Theodore Nash -- Samaria in the books of the eighth-century prophets / John J. Schmitt -- Anat’s warfare cannibalism and the West Semitic ban / Mark S. Smith -- Priestly families (or factions) in Samuel and Kings / John R.

Keywords: History of Religion, Old Testament, Biblical Archeology, Ancient Palestine, Bible Criticism, Archaeology, Antiquities, ,