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Description of  Israel's Past Seen from the Present: Studies on History and Religion in Ancient Israel and Judah (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift F r die Alttestamentliche Wissensch) (Issn, 535)

This collection of essays gives an insight into the problems that we encounter when we try to (re)construct events from Israel's past. On the one hand, the Hebrew Bible is a biased source, on the other hand, the data provided by archaeology and extra-biblical texts are constrained and sometimes contradictory. Discussing a set of examples, the author applies fundamental insight from the philosophy of history to clarify Israel's past.