Thomas L. Thompson
Autor von The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel
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Thomas L. Thompson is Professor emeritus at the University of Copenhagen and author of many works including The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David, Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives: The Quest for the Historical Abraham, The Bible in History: How Writers Create the Past mehr anzeigen and Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written Archaeological Sources. weniger anzeigen
Werke von Thomas L. Thompson
Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written & Archaeological Sources (1992) 26 Exemplare
The origin tradition of ancient Israel. 1. The literary formation of Genesis and Exodus 1-23 (1987) 20 Exemplare
History, archaeology and the Bible forty years after "historicity" : change perspectives 6 (2016) — Herausgeber — 6 Exemplare
The Bible and Hellenism : Greek influence on Jewish and early Christian literature (2014) — Herausgeber — 5 Exemplare
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Did Moses Speak Attic?: Jewish Historiography and Scripture in the Hellenistic Period ( (2001) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
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Thompson has little use for even qualified conclusions of source or redaction criticism; in the context of his programme, something like even a heavily qualified form of the amphyctiony hypothesis of Noth is not on; but it's also worth noting that a unifying religious network of any form would leave few traces of the sort he wants as evidence. A temporary domination of an area by a charismatic leader with committed followers which falls apart in a generation or two is certainly not unknown to later history; but its very span would tend to limit the archaeological traces it leaves - and that is one way of seeing a possible United Monarchy.
This therefore has to be read in the context of more general debates, with awareness of where it reflects consensus and where it takes a more outlying position. With that caveat, though, it is a worthwhile, careful, and thought-provoking work.… (mehr)