TY - BOOK AU - Grabbe,Lester L. ED - European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History TI - Can a 'history of Israel' be written? T2 - Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series SN - 0567043207 PY - 1997/// CY - Sheffield, England PB - Sheffield Academic Press KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - History of Biblical events KW - Historiography KW - Congresses KW - Jews KW - History KW - To 70 A.D KW - Palestine N1 - Papers from the inaugural meeting of the European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History held in Dublin in July 1996; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction / Lester L. Grabbe -- Are historians of ancient Palestine fellow creatures--or different animals? / Lester L. Grabbe -- History and the Hebrew Bible / Hans M. Barstad -- Inscribed seals as evidence for biblical Israel? : Jeremiah 40.7-41.15 par exemple / Bob Becking -- Madonna of silences : Clio and the Bible / Robert P. Carroll -- Whose history? Whose Israel? Whose Bible? : biblical histories, ancient and modern / Philip R. Davies -- Clio is also among the muses! : Keith W. Whitelam and the history of Palestine : a review and a commentary / Niels Peter Lemche -- Some aspects of working with the textual sources / Herbert Niehr -- Defining history and ethnicity in the South Levant / Thomas L. Thompson -- Reflections on the discussion / Lester L. Grabbe ER -