Philip Davies

Philip Davies
The University of Sheffield | Sheffield · Department of Biblical Studies

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Publications (27)
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The creation of an autonomous and secular discipline of biblical studies can be traced back through several stages, in particular to cultural changes brought about by the Reformation and the Enlightenment. But it is only in the last 50 years or so that this discipline (more accurately, a multi-discipline) can be truly said to have emerged as distin...
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In the New Testament, there are several references to a language called Hebrew which can only mean Aramaic. But who were the ‘Hebrews’, particularly in relation to ‘Israelites’ and ‘Jews’? We suggest that the failure on the part of non-Aramaic speaking non-Jews led to the incorrect identification of Aramaic as the ‘Jewish’ language (then known as ‘...
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Historical research on the Qumran manuscripts, despite being provided with archaeological and external literary evidence, has generally suffered from a lack of discussion and application of methodology, which could easily have been instructed from the scholarship in biblical history. Despite the fact that the Qumran caves and their contents form pa...
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A Historical SketchSocial and Cuitural ConfigurationsThe Ancient World of Ideas
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Writing a `history of Israel' is a task that is vastly different to writing history of modern events, yet this distinction is often not recognized. There are limitations in the written sources, the archaeological record is unable to locate a `biblical Israel' in differentiation from the various cultures that inhabited Palestine in the same period a...
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ספרי התורה ונביאים ראשונים, טוען פיליפ דייוויס, אינם מציגים מציאות היסטורית כלל וכלל, ולכן הארכאולוגיה איננה יכולה למצוא שרידים חומריים אשר יאשרו את תולדות ישראל ויהודה כפי שהם מוצגים בספרי התנ"ך. ספרי המקרא הם, לטענתו, חיבורים פילוסופיים בעיקרם, הכוללים חזונות שונים של "עם ישראל" האידאלי, לפי השאיפות של המחברים השונים של ספרי המקרא. המחברים הללו נ...

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