Bible Review

Davies, “‘House of David’ Built on Sand: The Sins of the Biblical Maximizers,” BAR 20:04

Philip R. Davies, “‘House of David’ Built on Sand: The Sins of the Biblical Maximizers,” BAR 20:04.

Robert B. Coote, Early Israel: A New Horizon (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990).

Gösta Ahlström, Who Were the Israelites? (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1988).

Quoted in the newsletter of the Institute of Archaeology, Horn Archaeological Museum 16:1–2 (1995), p. 2.

John Van Seters, Abraham in History and Tradition (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1975).

Thomas L. Thompson, The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1974).

John Bright, A History of Israel (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1959), pp. 72, 74, 76.

As one scholar has recently written, “The often sterile preoccupation with…speculative historical reconstructionism that had preoccupied scholars for more than a century has, to a large extent, given way to a more holistic literary approach” (Daniel I. Block, “Deborah Among the Judges: The Perspective of the Hebrew Historian,” in Faith, Tradition, and History: Old Testament Historiography in Its Near Eastern Context, ed. A.R. Millard et al. [Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1994], p. 229).

Keith W. Whitelam, The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History (New York: Routledge, 1996), p. 29.