Ingrid Hjelm, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Director of the Palestine History and Heritage Project. Author of The Samaritans and Early Judaism (2000) and Jerusalem's Rise to Sovereignty (2004) in addition to a considerable number of articles within the field of Samaritan studies, the history of ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. Her latest book, co-edited with Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme is Myths of Exile (2015).

Thomas L. Thompson, Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen and author of some 130 articles and ca. 20 books, including The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), The Early History of the Israelite People (1992), The Bible in History: How Writers Create a Past (1999) and Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History (2013), currently working as Project Developer on the Palestine History and Heritage Project.

Introduction

Part I: Beyond Historicity

1. A New 'Biblical Archaeology'






Philip R. Davies




2. Old and New Ways of Interpreting Isaiah 40-55






Frederik Poulsen




3. Sociolinguistic Perspectives on the Hebrew Bible as Memory Work: Seeing Redactional Work as Entextualization






Trine Bjørnung Hasselbach





Part II: Greek Connections




4. Is the Old Testament Still a Hellenistic Book?






Niels Peter Lemche




5. From Plato to Moses: Genesis-Kings as a Platonic Epic






Philippe Wajdenbaum




6. Greek Genres and the Hebrew Bible






Russel Gmirkin




7. When the Septuagint Came in from the Cold






Mogens Müller





Part III: Reception




8. Of Qumran, the Canon and the History of the Bible Text






Fred Cryer




9. Deconstructing the Continuity of Qumran Ib and II with Implications for Stabilizing the Biblical Texts






Gregory Doudna




10. Canon Formation, Canonicity and the Qumran library






Jesper Høgenhaven




11. New Children of Abraham in Greenland-The Creation of a Nation






Flemming A. J. Nielsen




12. Whose Mythic, Rhythmic, Theological and Cultural Memory is it Anyway?

Jim West