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Benjamin Mazar, Biblical Israel: State and People, Philip R James Madison University JMU Scholarly Commons Libraries Libraries & Educational Technologies 1997 Benjamin Mazar, Biblical Israel: State and People, Philip R. Davies, In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’, John Van Seters, Prologue to History: The ahY wist as Historian in Genesis Steven W. Holloway James Madison University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://commons.lib.jmu.edu/letfspubs Part of the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture Commons, Biblical Studies Commons, History of Religions of Eastern Origins Commons, Near Eastern Languages and Societies Commons, and the Political Theory Commons Recommended Citation Holloway, Steven W., "Benjamin Mazar, Biblical Israel: State and People, Philip R. Davies, In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’, John Van Seters, Prologue to History: The ahY wist as Historian in Genesis" (1997). Libraries. 124. http://commons.lib.jmu.edu/letfspubs/124 This Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries & Educational Technologies at JMU Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Libraries by an authorized administrator of JMU Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Review Reviewed Work(s): Biblical Israel: State and People by Benjamin Mazar and Shmuel Ahituv; In Search of 'Ancient Israel' by Philip R. Davies; Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis by John van Seters Review by: Steven W. Holloway Source: Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Apr., 1997), pp. 147-150 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/545772 Accessed: 05-01-2018 19:02 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms The University of Chicago Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Near Eastern Studies This content downloaded from 134.126.76.227 on Fri, 05 Jan 2018 19:02:34 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms APRIL 1997 BOOK REVIEWS 147 grammar that the Benjaminuse ofMazar's matres oeuvre is a showcase lectionis of in the Massoretic text is not consistent. But, as stated "biblical archaeology" comparable to that popu- above, one needs to decide whether the grammar larized by W. E Albright: an historicist reading that one is aiming to present is Biblical or Ti- of the Hebrew Scriptures and the Apocrypha, berian. It should be noted that in this particular beginning with the peregrinations of the biblical example Muraoka has simply translated Jotion, patriarchs in the Bronze Age and extending who did not indicate the rule in transcription in through the Second Temple period, is exegeted ?89a, ?90b, or ?96; in his Grammaire, however, by illustrations drawn from Middle Eastern ar- the student would know that the sequence hireq- chaeology, ancient Near Eastern literature, and y5d-mim normally indicates // and that that comparative philology. The credo underlying this orthography is the regular, though not the ex- approach is that the Hebrew Scriptures provide a clusive, way of representing the morpheme in clear gateway into the reality of "ancient Israel" question and its vocalic component. This ex- that can be broadened and enhanced by selected ample, chosen more or less at random, ends up use of archaeological reports and comparative providing a rather striking case of how a literal materials drawn from neighboring civilizations. translation can be imprecise when placed within A random example: "The archaeological evi- a new set of presuppositions. dence uncovered at Tell Balata tends to confirm and complete the picture obtained from the El- DENNIS PARDEE Amarna Letters and biblical references" (p. 50). The University of Chicago The lucid descriptive power of Mazar's prose coupled with the able juxtaposition of text, con- cept, and archaeological datum greatly augment Biblical Israel: State and People. By BENJAMIN the reader's ability to follow the thread of the MAZAR. Edited by SHMUEL AHITUV. historicalJeru- arguments to their conclusion. The salem: Magnes Press and Israel Exploration editor Ahituv has updated the footnote bibli- Society, 1992. Pp. 175. $25. ographies, at times extensively, so that, for in- In Search of 'Ancient Israel'. By PHILIP R. stance, "The Cities of the Priests and Levites" DAVIES. Journal for the Study of the Old (pp. 134-45), originally published in 1960, con- Testament Supplement Series 148. Sheffield: tains references as late as 1990. Unfortunately, JSOT Press, 1992. Pp. 172. $39.50. the fact is that time has dealt some shrewd blows Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian to the biblical archaeology enterprise; a biblio- in Genesis. By JOHN VAN SETERS. Louisville, graphic "makeover" of a collection of essays Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press, guided by Albright's equation that Bible + ar- 1992. Pp. xvi + 367. $27.99. chaeology = history does not succeed in bringing Biblical Israel: State and People is a col- them into dialogue with current research. lection of fourteen articles by Benjamin Mazar A single example: "The Cities of the Priests jointly issued by Magnes Press and the Israel and Levites," a highly influential study in its Exploration Society in honor of his eighty-fifth day, dated the lists of toponyms in Joshua 21 birthday. The studies published here cover forty and 1 Chronicles 6 to the united monarchy. Sub- years of Mazar's scholarship; five of the essays sequent archaeological examination of many of were translated from the original Hebrew. As the the sites has effectively rendered such a date editor Shmuel Ahituv explains in the foreword, impossible.2 The historicist's presupposition that this volume is a follow-up to a collection of the lists must reflect the administrative reality Mazar's articles published by Israel Exploration of some period prompted Mazar indignantly to Society in 1986;1 hence, a substantial portion contest Wellhausen's suggestion that these lists of Mazar's scholarship is now available-in are "merely the fruit of post-exilic imagination" English-in two volumes. (p. 136). It is precisely back to Wellhausen's 1 Shmuel Ahituv and Baruch A. Levine, eds., The 2 See John R. Spencer, "Levitical Cities," in the Early Biblical Period: Historical Studies (Jerusalem, Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 4, pp. 310-11 and bib- 1986). liography cited there. This content downloaded from 134.126.76.227 on Fri, 05 Jan 2018 19:02:34 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 148 JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES VOL. 56 No. 2 hypothesis that a century of sertsexcavations that the "ancient in Israel" projected by the Palestine has inexorably pushed Biblethe is problem a self-conscious of product of the scribal the Levitical cities: an ideological elite construct living in the thatSecond Temple period. Philip sought to locate the Levites in Davies an "ancient challenges the Is- ruling paradigm of the rael" that never existed outside historical-criticalthe pages of interpretation the of the Bible by Hebrew Scriptures. pushing the time of its creation and its ideologi- It is not my intention to denigrate cal preoccupations the publica- forward into the Persian and tions of Benjamin Mazar, a titan amongHellenistic the periods. first Some readers may require generation of Israeli archaeologists, Dramamine but for it motion-sickness. is my task to observe that the methodology "Ancient and Israel" con- is an Erehwon that exists clusions of these studies as a whole are more only in the fastnesses of biblical scholarship. It consonant with the scholarship of the 1960s is an and artificial composite based on the spurious 1970s than the 1980s and 1990s. The essays assumption that there is a close correspondence collected in the book function corporately between as a the literary image of pre- and monar- "Tell Mazar" whose strata reveal the profes- chic Israel presented in the Hebrew Scriptures sional achievements of Benjamin Mazar (Davies'across "biblical Israel") and the historical in- the many productive years of his career. habitants Some of the northern Palestinian highlands of these reprinted essays pivotally influenced during part of the Iron Age ("historical Israel"). the development of biblical studies and archae-It is a perfectly valid pursuit to explore the ology, and in that sense this volume hasbiblical a stories as a self-contained narrative uni- certain integrity in representing a consistently verse. Severe problems arise, however, when conservative approach to the exposition ofbiblical the specialists attempt to give historically Hebrew Scriptures. They are "The Eastern cogent Medi- explanations for what are fundamentally terranean in 1500-1000 B.C.E." (1988); "Canaan literary problems, an enterprise not unlike a cri- and the Canaanites" (1946); "The Philistines" tique of Shakespeare's character of Julius Caesar (1971); "Shechem-A City of the Patriarchs" that strives to harmonize the Caesar of history (1974); "Kingship in Ancient Israel" (1973); with the Elizabethan stage creation.3 In Davies's "The Sanctuary of Arad and the Family of opinion, the only viable "historical Israel" open Hobab the Kenite" (1965); "David's Reign in to rigorous historical investigation in the politi- Hebron and the Conquest of Jerusalem" (1963); cal state that was converted into an Assyrian "Jerusalem-'Royal Sanctuary and Seat of the province by Sargon II, whose inhabitants en- Monarchy'" (1957); "Jerusalem from Isaiah to joyed an ethnic diversity and cultic pluralism Jeremiah" (1988); "The Temple Mount from that virtually stand the ideological "biblical Zerubbabel to Herod" (1985); "The Dynasty Israel" on its head.
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