Stones, Tablets, and Scrolls

Peter Dubovský (Herausgegeben von) Born 1965; 2005 ThD from Harvard Divinity School; 1999 SSL from the Pontifical Biblical Institute; dean at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and professor of the Old Testament and history.Federico Giuntoli (Herausgegeben von) Born 1969; 2003 SSD Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome; currently Associate professor of Old Testament Exegesis at the Pontifical Biblical Institute.

• Peter Dubovský: IntroductionPart 1: Write My Commands on the Tablet of Your Heart (Oral and Written Tradition in Israel)Diana Edelman: The Text-Dating Conundrum: Viewing Genesis and Kings from an Achaemenid Framework - Jean Louis Ska: The Tablet of the Heart and the Tablets of Stone: Orality and Jurisprudence in Ancient IsraelPart 2: The Saviors of Israel (Early Neo-Assyrian Period)Peter Dubovský: The Birth of Israelite Historiography: A Comparative Study of 2 Kings 13‒14 and Ninth‒Eighth-Century BCE Levantine Historiographies - Israel Finkelstein: Northern Royal Traditions in the Bible and the Ideology of a "United Monarchy" Ruled from Samaria - Thomas Römer: Jeroboam II and the Invention of Northern Sanctuaries and Foundation StoriesPart 3: Royal Carrot and Stick (Late Neo-Assyrian Period)Alice M. W. Hunt: Materiality and Ideology: Negotiating Identity across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape - Eckart Frahm: Texts, Stories, History: The Neo-Assyrian Period and the Bible - Peter Machinist: Manasseh of Judah: A Case Study in Biblical HistoriographyPart 4: Singing the Lord's Song in a Foreign Land (Neo-Babylonian Period)Jeffrey R. Zorn: The View from Mizpah: Tell en-Naṣbeh, Judah, the Sixth Century BCE, and the Formation of the Biblical Text - Michael Jursa/Céline Debourse: Late Babylonian Priestly Literature from Babylon - Erhard Blum: The Diachrony of Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch: The Cases of Deuteronomy 1-3 and the Prophetic Tent of Meeting Tradition - Hermann-Josef Stipp: The Redactions of the Book of Jeremiah and the ExilePart 5: Rising from the Ashes (Persian Period)Pierfrancesco Callieri: Ideological Aspects of Persian Art and Architecture as Seen from Persepolis, in a Historical Perspective - Agustinus Gianto: Some Notes on Bilingualism and Diglossia in Judah during the Achaemenid Period - Federico Giuntoli: Revising the Pentateuch: The Emergence of a National Identity under Persian Hegemony - Eric M. Meyers: The Rise of Scripture in a Minimalist Demographic ContextPart 6: Coping with Western Culture (Greco-Roman Period)Katell Berthelot: The Formation of the Hebrew Bible in a Greco-Roman Context in Light of the Evidence from Qumran - Barbara Schmitz: The Book of Judith and Tyrannicide: How the Book of Judith Takes Up a Greek-Hellenistic Discourse - Emanuel Tov: The Use of Scripture Texts in Different Communities in Ancient Israel in Light of the Judean Desert Texts - Marcello Fidanzio: Biblical Scrolls in Their Depositional Contexts: Psalms as a Case Study - Henryk Drawnel: The Reception of Genesis 6:1-4 in 1 Enoch 6-7