David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western TraditionSimon and Schuster, 03/04/2007 - 342 من الصفحات "In David and Solomon, Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, leading archaeologists and authors who have done a great deal to uncover and understand the breathtaking findings of their field, focus on the first two great kings of the Bible as a lens through which we can see the evolution of the entire biblical era. The Bible's chapters and verses on David and his son were written in stages, over many hundreds of years, by authors living in very different circumstances. Thanks to a combination of textual analysis and archaeology, we now know a great deal about which parts of the story were written in which era, and why those particular societies might have added to the legend precisely as they did. In short, David and Solomon offers a guide to a thousand years of ancient civilization and the evolution of a tradition of kingly leadership that held sway throughout the West for much of our history."--BOOK JACKET. |
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The Shepherd and the Slingstone | 1 |
Tales of the Bandit | 31 |
The Madness of Saul | 61 |
Murder Lust and Betrayal | 91 |
Temple and Dynasty | 121 |
Solomons Wisdom? | 151 |
Challenging Goliath | 179 |
Patron Saints of the Temple | 211 |
Messianic Visions | 233 |
Symbols of Authority | 253 |
KING SOLOMONS COPPER | 282 |
Bibliography and Suggested Reading | 297 |
Acknowledgments | 325 |
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