Baruch Halpern
Biographic Data
| ID | 3829599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Baruch Halpern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Baruch |
| FAMILY NAME | Halpern |
| SIGNATURE | HALPERN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World: A Periplos
Karl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age. Axial it was, for out of it emerged the idea of Greek culture, with its influence on Roman and later empires. Jaspers’ Axial Age was the chrysalis of culturally-meaningful modernity. Trade expands intellectual horizons. The economic and political effects permeate such social domains as technology, language and worldview. In the last category, many issues take on an emotional freight – th…
Fracturing the Exodus, as Told by Edward Everett Horton
Two Views of a History of Ancient Israel
The Books of Kings: Sources, Composition, Historiography and Reception
This collaborative commentary on, or dictionary of, Kings, explores cross-cutting aspects of Kings ranging from the analysis of its composition, historically regarded, to its transmission and reception. Ample attention is accorded sources, figures and peoples who play a part in the book. The commentary deals with Kings’ treatment in translation and role in later ancient literature. While our comments do not proceed verse by verse, the volume furn…
From Gods to God: The Dynamics of Iron Age Cosmologies
How was Western culture born? Not from Athenian democracy, but from everything that led to Greek dialogue about sciences born in the east. Baruch Halpern shows how international culture deracinated elites across the Mediterranean, and led to the triumph of monotheism, science and philosophy.
From Gods to God: The Dynamics of Iron Age Cosmologies (Forschungen Zum Alten Testament)
The birth of the West stems from the rejection of tradition. All our evidence for this influence comes from the Axial period, 800-400 BCE. Baruch Halpern explores the impact of changing cosmologies and social relations on cultural change in that era, especially from Mesopotamia to Israel and Greece, but extending across the Mediterranean, not least to Egypt and Italy. In this volume he shows how an explosion of international commerce and exchange…
Forschungen Zum Alten Testament: From Gods to God
Ezra’s Reform and Bilateral Citizenship in Athens and the Mediterranean World
Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors, from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina
Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors, from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina
Solving Riddles and Untying Knots: Biblical, Epigraphic, and Semitic Studies in Honor of Jonas C. Greenfield . Ziony Zevit, Seymour Gitin, and Michael Sokoloff
David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King
Bible Portrays David as an exceptional man and a paragon of godly devotion. But was he? Some scholars deny that he existed at all. Did he? This challenging book examines the written and archaeological evidence critically in an effort to paint an accurate picture of one of the Bible's central figures.--BOOK JACKET. From The Critics Library Journal Halpern (Jewish studies, Pennsylvania State Univ.) has given us a scholarly, fascinating, and controv…
Israel's Past in Present Research: Essays on Ancient Israelite Historiography
Herrschaft, Königtum und Staat: Skizzen zur soziokulturellen Entwicklung im monarchischen Israel
Research Design in Archaeology: The Interdisciplinary Perspective
Archaeology today finds its most strained relations with the field of history, the field, ironically, of its intellectual origins. This circumstance restricts and diminishes archaeology. While archaeology must continue to recover and identify material culture and proceed with its interpretation, dialogue with the discipline of history enriches archaeological investigation and stirs its imagination in the creation of meaningful interdisciplinarity
The Reform of King Josiah and the Composition of the Deuteronomistic History
How Golden Is the Marshaltown, How Holey the Scripture
Law, Politics and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World
The Stela from Dan: Epigraphic and Historical Considerations
The first fragment of the Tel Dan stela, discovered in 1993, caught the attention of the public particularly for its mention of the "house of David," providing a stratified index of the historicity of that figure, and of the early monarchy. The editio princeps placed the inscription early in the ninth century B. C. E., relating it to the invasion of Ben-Hadad I. Reconsideration of the stela suggests, however, that it belongs to the end of the nin…
Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis
Law, Politics and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Law and Ideology in Monarchic Israel
The Biblical Canon in Comparative Perspective: Scripture in Context IV
Law and Ideology in Monarchic Israel
The Fabric of History: Text, Artifact and Israel's Past
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The Constitution of the Monarchy in Israel
The Constitution of the Monarchy in Israel
The Resourceful Israelite Historian: The Song of Deborah and Israelite Historiography
Judges 5, the Song of Deborah, is and has traditionally been one of the foci of biblical study. Artistically, it evinces a consummate skill, with a series of powerful scenes and strong stanzas. Literarily, it has broad import, particularly in that it is one of the oldest integral texts in the Hebrew Bible. Few scholars dissent from the proposition that the poem is premonarchic. As a result, it represents also a virtually unimpeachable source for …
The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History . James L. Kugel
A. Malamat, Yiśrāʾēl bi-t e qûpat ham-miqrāʾ (Israel in Biblical Times. Historical Essays)
Yaua, Son of Omri, Yet Again
The Israelite ruler, ia-ú-a (once, ia-a-ú), son of Omri, is named as a tributary in the inscriptions of Shalmaneser III. A recent study proposing to identify this figure not, as has been usual, with Jehu, but with Jehoram, Ahab's son, has evoked several responses convincingly defending the more traditional view. However, philological problems remain, both with the Assyrian transcriptions and with the Hebrew name, Jehu. These difficulties can be s…
Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism from Max Weber to the Present . Irving M. Zeitlin
The Hebrew Bible: A Socio-Literary Interpretation . Norman K. Gottwald
Ancient Israelite Religion: Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross . Patrick D. Miller, Jr. , Paul D. Hanson , S. Dean McBride
Abraham. Eine sozialgeschichtliche Studie . U. Worschech
Micah and Isaiah: A Form and Tradition Historical Comparison. Gary Stansell
Property Rights in the Eighth-Century Prophets. John Andrew Dearman
David's Social Drama: A Hologram of Israel's Early Iron Age
Word Biblical Themes: 1, 2 Kings T. R. Hobbs Dallas: Word Books, 1989. xiv + 104 p
A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions Walter E. Aufrecht Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989. x1 + 517 p
God Is King: Understanding an Israelite Metaphor
Ehud (Person)
[Heb ʾēhûd; ēḥûd]. 1. Second of the “saviors” or “major judges” in the book of Judges (3:12–30; 4:1; see also 1 Chr 8:6). The narrative portrays Ehud as a military man, trained in left-handed combat (Judg 3:15; 20:16; cf. 1 Chr 12:2), who escorts Israel’s tribute to EGLON, the corpulent Moabite king
The Lachish Ostraca. Letters of the Time of Jeremiah . Shmuel Ahituv
"Halpern, "The First Historians
Law and Ideology in Monarchic Israel
The Fabric of History: Text, Artifact and Israel's Past
The Stela from Dan: Epigraphic and Historical Considerations
The first fragment of the Tel Dan stela, discovered in 1993, caught the attention of the public particularly for its mention of the "house of David," providing a stratified index of the historicity of that figure, and of the early monarchy. The editio princeps placed the inscription early in the ninth century B. C. E., relating it to the invasion of Ben-Hadad I. Reconsideration of the stela suggests, however, that it belongs to the end of the nin…
Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis
Law, Politics and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Law and Ideology in Monarchic Israel
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