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Jerusalem Throne Games
Peter Feinman
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Description for Jerusalem Throne Games
Paperback. The question of who wrote the bible is complex, yet has deep significance for religious studies. This treatise puts forward a new assessment of the authorship of a key section of the Old Testament, and demonstrates the power of storytelling as a political weapon. Num Pages: 352 pages, b/w. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Jerusalem Throne Games explores the political battle for power to succeed David expressed through selected stories from the beginning of the Book of Genesis. In these confrontations, combatants wielded a new weapon of war that was changing the course of human history, the alphabet prose narrative. With this weapon, competing factions battled for throne not with the blog, the op ed, the tweet or the essay, but through storytelling. In this book six of those stories from Gen. 4-11 are analysed through the lens of the succession of Solomon and the collapse of his kingdom. These stories are ... Read more
Jerusalem Throne Games explores the political battle for power to succeed David expressed through selected stories from the beginning of the Book of Genesis. In these confrontations, combatants wielded a new weapon of war that was changing the course of human history, the alphabet prose narrative. With this weapon, competing factions battled for throne not with the blog, the op ed, the tweet or the essay, but through storytelling. In this book six of those stories from Gen. 4-11 are analysed through the lens of the succession of Solomon and the collapse of his kingdom. These stories are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785706165
SKU
V9781785706165
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Ref
99-13
About Peter Feinman
Peter Feinman is the founder of the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education. He advocates for the importance of local history in education and citizenship. Ever since he was a child he has wanted to know how Moses did what he did.
Reviews for Jerusalem Throne Games
...an excellent resource for students just entering the field. Ultimately, regardless of whether one finds Feinman’s answer to “Who wrote the Bible?” convincing, he has done us all a great pedagogical favor with this book.
Journal of Bible and Theology
Journal of Bible and Theology