Historical Fragments in a Mythic Past: The Ancient History of Israel/Palestine with and without the Bible

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Published: Dec 12, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31049/1853.7049.v0.n12.18810
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Old Testament, Ancient Israel, Historicity, Historiography, Mythic Mind

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Emanuel Pfoh
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - CONICET

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This paper presents some reflections and a state of the art about the ways in which current his­toriography on ancient Israel has changed the interpretative approach to the subject, especial­ly during the last five decades. The key ques­tion resides in the status of the Old Testament as a historical source, but also in the reference of events in the biblical narrative and the meth­ods deployed in the historical analysis of an­cient Palestine’s past. Two his­toriographical possibilities have been developed in historical biblical studies in Europe and the United States: the first one, to continue producing a historiog­raphy about ancient Israel building upon the narrative scheme in the Old Testament, and the second one, to produce a historiography essen­tially concerned with ancient Palestine and its mate­rial and intellectual conditions with the Old Testament as a secondary source for the history of the Iron Age (ca. 1200-600 BCE).

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