Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Mediterranean West Asian Cultures
bschmidt@umich.eduOffice Information:
202 South Thayer Street, Suite 3167, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
phone: 734.647.0069
Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies; CMENAS Faculty
Highlighted Work and Publications
The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel
Israel Finkelstein, Amihai Mazar
Three decades of dialogue, discussion, and debate within the interrelated disciplines of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, ancient Israelite history, and Hebrew Bible over the question of the relevance of the biblical account for reconstructing early Israels history have created the need for a balanced articulation of the issues and their prospective resolutions. This book brings together for the first time and under one cover, a currently emerging centrist paradigm as articulated by two leading figures in the fields of early Israelite archaeology and history. Although Finkelstein and Mazar...
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Israel's Beneficent Dead: Ancestor Cults and Necromancy in Ancient Israelite Religion and Tradition
Brian Schmidt
Schmidt examines a variety of factors that suggest that ancestor veneration or worship was not practiced in Levantine countries before Hellenistic times. In the course of his investigation, Schmidt provides a sustained analysis of the textual remains from ancient Syria-Palestine pertaining to these questions.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Year of Publication: 1994
