A Troubler of “Ancient Israel”: Philip Davies as Heir of Faustus of Mileve

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Abbreviations xv
5. List of Original Publications xix
6. Introduction 1
7. David between Ideology and Evidence 5
8. Assyrian Evidence for Iconic Polytheism in Ancient Israel? 34
9. How to Encounter an Historical Problem? “722–720” as a Case Study 50
10. West Semites at Tell Šēḥ Ḥamad: Evidence for the Israelite Exile? 66
11. Phoenician Snakes and a Prophetic Parallelism: An Implication for Zephaniah 1,9 of a Recent Discovery in the Egyptian Pyramid Texts 81
12. Sennacherib and Jerusalem: New Perspectives 93
13. Means of Revelation in the Book of Jeremiah 109
14. A Fragmented History of the Exile 124
15. Global Warming and the Babylonian Exile 139
16. The Return of the Deity from Exile: Iconic or Aniconic? 150
17. Is There a Samaritan Identity in the Earliest Documents? 159
18. More than one God? Three Models of Construing the Relations between Yhwh and the Other Gods 174
19. A Troubler of “Ancient Israel”: Philip Davies as Heir of Faustus of Mileve 191
20. Bibliography 199
21. Index of Ancient Sources 235
22. Modern authors 243