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N/A - Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective: Text, Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience (Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences) - 9783319047676 - V9783319047676
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Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective: Text, Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience (Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences)

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Description for Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective: Text, Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience (Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences) Hardcover. Editor(s): Levy, Thomas E.; Schneider, Thomas; Propp, William H.C. Series: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Num Pages: 584 pages, 80 black & white illustrations, 65 colour illustrations, 25 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: HD; PBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 265 x 195 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1224.

The Bible's grand narrative about Israel's Exodus from Egypt is central to Biblical religion, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim identity and the formation of the academic disciplines studying the ancient Near East. It has also been a pervasive theme in artistic and popular imagination. Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective is a pioneering work surveying this tradition in unprecedented breadth, combining archaeological discovery, quantitative methodology and close literary reading. Archaeologists, Egyptologists, Biblical Scholars, Computer Scientists, Geoscientists and other experts contribute their diverse approaches in a novel, transdisciplinary consideration of ancient topography, Egyptian and Near Eastern parallels to the Exodus story, the historicity of the Exodus, the ... Read more

Thisedited volume contains research presented at the groundbreaking symposium "Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination" held in 2013 at the Qualcomm Institute of the University of California, San Diego. The combination of 44 contributions by an international group of scholars from diverse disciplines makes this the first such transdisciplinary study of ancient text and history. In the original conference and with this new volume, revolutionary media, such as a 3D immersive virtual reality environment, impart innovative, Exodus-based research to a wider audience. Out of archaeology, ancient texts, science and technology emerge an up-to-date picture of the Exodus for the 21st Century and a new standard for collaborative research.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Series
Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Number of Pages
584
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319047676
SKU
V9783319047676
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About N/A
Thomas Evan Levy is Distinguished Professor and holds the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego. He is a member of the Department of Anthropology and Judaic Studies Program and leads the Cyber-archaeology research group at the Qualcomm Institute, California Center of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Elected to ... Read more

Reviews for Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective: Text, Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience (Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
“This substantial volume—in size as well as content—resulted from a 2013 conference involving more than 40 scholars from the US, Europe, and Israel as well as a ‘cyber-archeological’ museum exhibit. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. A valuable resource for faculty and graduate students in biblical studies, religion, and the history of ancient Israel.” (R. M. Seltzer, Choice, Vol. 53 (2), ... Read more

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