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in Near Eastern languages and literatures from Harvard University. He has excavated in Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, and Egypt. Michael D. Coogan received a Ph.D. The coeditor ofThe Oxford Companion to the Bible and author of many other books and publications, he is currently director of publications

• Title : The Oxford History of the Biblical World
• Author : Oxford University Press
• Rating : 4.82 (697 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-12-27
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 672 Pages
• Asin : 0195087070
• Language : English

in Near Eastern languages and literatures from Harvard University. He has excavated in Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, and Egypt. Michael D. Coogan received a Ph.D. The coeditor ofThe Oxford Companion to the Bible and author of many other books and publications, he is currently director of publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum and professor of religious studies at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

The Oxford History of theBiblical World incorporates the best of this scholarship, and in chronologically ordered chapters presents the reader with a readable and integrated study of the history, art, architecture, languages, literatures, and religion of biblical Israel and early Judaism and Christianity in their larger cultural contexts. Broad, authoritative, and visually engaging, The Oxford History of the Biblical World will illuminate for any reader the ancient world from which the Bible emerged.
. Using new approaches, contemporary scholars have begun to synthesize this material with the biblical traditions. Here, in one impressively illustrated volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts--the Bible.
For more than a century, archeologists have been unearthing the tombs, temples, texts, and artifacts of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world. The authors also examine such issues as the roles of women, the tensions between urban and rural settings, royal and kinsh

Appropriate for all libraries with collections in religion or Near Eastern studies, and of particular interest to students of biblical history and archaeology. Carlisle, Southern Illinois Univ., EdwardsvilleCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Carlisle, Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsvill.-?Linda V. Organized chronologically, the essays explore the many cultures of ancient Canaan, Israel, Judea, and Palestine from 10,000 B.C.E. From Library Journal Coogan (religious studies, Stonehill Coll.) has assembled a dozen scholars with impressive credentials in ancient Near Eastern studies to assist him in creating this work of immense scope. . For another book edited by Coogan, see The Illustrated Guide to World Religions, reviewed on p. 72.?Ed.?Linda V. to the rise of Islam in the seventh century C.E. Illustrations, maps, charts, chronologies, and bibliographies enhance the uniformly well-written essays. But the strengths of the work are its currency and breadth of coverage and perspective. These contributors bring

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