Books written by Gary N. Knoppers
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Two Nations Under God: The Deuteronomistic History of Solomon and the Dual Monarchies: Volume 1: The Reign of Solomon and...
The story of David's demise and Solomon's rise is a necessary prelude to the age of peace and plenty which follows. II. ... contend that the Deuteronomist is largely following his source(s) with only minor 38 Halpern points out that, ...
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I Chronicles 10-29
... the shrines (Cole and Machinist, §§ 162–64), the employment of precious metals and gems (Cole and Machinist, S$166, ... Indeed, the size of the endowments are so outrageously high that Solomon need not even worry about embarking on ...
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Prophets, Priests, and Promises: Essays on the Deuteronomistic History, Chronicles, and Ezra-Nehemiah
Unlike the Chronicler, who ties the dynastic promises to the accession and activities of Solomon, the psalmist ties ... S. Gillmayr-Bucher, A. Giercke, and C. Niessen; ETS 90; Würzburg: Echter Verlag, 2006), 219–33; F.-L. Hossfeld and ...
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I Chronicles 1-9
2.1–13.8; 30.3–47.18) are indebted to the biblical texts describing Solomon's Temple. Indeed, Yadin (1983: 1.82–83, 177) and others ... The Temple Scroll seems to present itself as a Temple plan, a realization of the pattern(s) handed ...
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Prophets, Priests, and Promises: Essays on the Deuteronomistic History, Chronicles, and Ezra-Nehemiah
"Shortly before his untimely death Gary Knoppers prepared a number of articles on the historical books in the Hebrew Bible for this volume.
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The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance
"This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the promulgation of the Pentateuch and its acceptance as authoritative Torah includes contributions from international specialists on the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint,...
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Jews and Samaritans: The Origins and History of Their Early Relations
Engaged with previous scholarship and bringing to bear new material and literary evidence, this book offers a new understanding of the history, identity, and relationship of early Samaritans and Jews.
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The Economy of Ancient Judah in Its Historical Context
2008 Economic Change and Legal Innovation: On Aspects of Commercial Interaction and Land Tenure in Babylonia in the First Millennium bc. ... Nam, R. S. 2012 Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings. BibInt. Leiden: Brill.
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The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans
knowledge with the standard presentation on the Samaritans written by James A. Montgomery in 1907,15 it is conspicuous what a difference the empirical evidence from the area of the Dead Sea has made. Montgomery was on the right track in ...
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Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period: Negotiating Identity in an International Context
This volume contains most of the papers delivered at the Heidelberg conference, considering the matter under two rubrics: (1) the biblical evidence (and the diversity of data from the Bible); and (2) the cultural, historical, social, and ...
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Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century B.C.E.
Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century B.C.E. is the publication of the proceedings of the third conference, which was held in Muenster, Germany, in August 2005; the essays in it focus on the century during which the Persian Empire ...
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First Chronicles
In his latest addition to the esteemed Anchor Bible Commentaries, scholar Gary Knoppers examines one of the most neglected books of the Old Testament and established its importance as a...
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Community Identity in Judean Historiography: Biblical and Comparative Perspectives
William Riley, King and Cultus in Chronicles (JSOTSup 160; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993) 37. 72. Victor Hurowitz, I Have Built You an Exalted House (JSOTSup 115; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992) 143. 73.
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Covenant in the Persian Period: From Genesis to Chronicles
The contributors to this volume, drawn from many different countries including Canada, Germany, Israel, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States, document how Judean writers working within historiographic, Levitical, prophetic, ...
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Reconsidering Israel and Judah: Recent Studies on the Deuteronomistic History
This was that the socalled Rise of David Narrative probably never existed as a single work on its own but was conceived as an additional layer to the Succession ... Brueggemann, W. 1985 David's Truth in Israel's Imagination and Memory.
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The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance
Since antiquity, the five books of Moses have served as a sacred constitution, foundational for both Jews and Samaritans.
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Reconsidering Israel and Judah: Recent Studies on the Deuteronomistic History
Reconsidering Israel and Judah: Recent Studies on the Deuteronomistic History
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The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans
... Hā-'îsh Mōshe: Studies in Scriptural Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature in Honor of Moshe J. Bernstein, ed. Binyamin Y. Goldstein, Michael Segal, and George J. Brooke, STDJ 122 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 280–302 ...
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Jews and Samaritans: The Origins and History of Their Early Relations
Covering over a thousand years of history, this book makes an important contribution to the fields of Jewish studies, biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern studies, Samaritan studies, and early Christian history by challenging the ...
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Judah and Samaria in Postmonarchic Times: Essays on Their Histories and Literatures
... the so-called altar room at Tel Dan, Greer, Dinner at Dan, 108–19. More broadly, see A.R. Davis, Tel Dan in Its Northern Cultic Context (SBLABS 20; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2013), 48–49, 79–87. 70 Magen, Misgav, and Tsfania, Inscriptions ...