Megan Bishop Moore is Adjunct Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University.

"This dissertation, written under the supervision of John Hayes from Emory, is a serious contribution to the debate on how, and whether at all, to write a history of ancient Israel...Moore has done a tremendous job in sorting out the recent history of historiography on ancient Israel and deserves all our thanks...Moore has covered a very wide field."—Ernst Axel Knauf, RBL 09/2007

• IntroductionChapter 1 Current Philosophical Issues in History WritingChapter 2 Evaluating and Using EvidenceChapter 3 Assumptions and Practices of Historians of Ancient Israel in the Mid-Twentieth CenturyChapter 4 Assumptions and Practices of Minimalist Historians of Ancient IsraelChapter 5 Non-Minimalist Historians of Ancient IsraelChapter 6 Summary and ConclusionsBibliographyIndex

Megan Bishop Moore is Adjunct Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University.

"This dissertation, written under the supervision of John Hayes from Emory, is a serious contribution to the debate on how, and whether at all, to write a history of ancient Israel...Moore has done a tremendous job in sorting out the recent history of historiography on ancient Israel and deserves all our thanks...Moore has covered a very wide field."—Ernst Axel Knauf, RBL 09/2007

• IntroductionChapter 1 Current Philosophical Issues in History WritingChapter 2 Evaluating and Using EvidenceChapter 3 Assumptions and Practices of Historians of Ancient Israel in the Mid-Twentieth CenturyChapter 4 Assumptions and Practices of Minimalist Historians of Ancient IsraelChapter 5 Non-Minimalist Historians of Ancient IsraelChapter 6 Summary and ConclusionsBibliographyIndex