01737nam a2200181Ia 4500 230822s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97890041047619004104763 eng BS580.S6 .A34 1997 The age of Solomon : scholarship at the turn of the millennium / edited by Lowell K. Handy Leiden ; Boston : E. J. Brill, 1997 xx, 539 p. : map; 25 cm. Studies in the history and culture of the ancient Near East, 11 Solomon and the historical endeavor -- Separating the Solomon of legend / J. Maxwell Miller -- King Solomon in his ancient context / Alan Millard -- Sources and composition in the history of Solomon / Nadav Naʼaman -- Le roi est mort, vive le roi! A Biblical argument for the historicity of Solomon / Ernst Axel Knauf -- On the dating and dates of Solomon's reign / Lowell K. Handy -- The cultural-political environment -- Egypt and East Africa / Kenneth A. Kitchen -- Sheba and Arabia / Kenneth A. Kitchen -- Phoenicians in the tenth century BCE: a sketch of an outline / Lowell K. Handy -- Inland Syria and the East-of-Jordan region in the first millennium BCE before the Assyrian intrusions / Mark W. Chavalas -- "How the mighty are fallen": the Philistines in their tenth century context / Carl S. Ehrlich -- Assyria and Babylonia in the tenth century BCE / Steven W. Holloway -- Archaeology and the reign of Solomon -- Archaeology and the "Age of Solomon": a case study of archaeology and historiography / William G. Dever. Bible. Kings, 1st--History of Biblical events.Bible. Kings, 1st--History of contemporary events.Bible. Kings, 1st--Antiquities. Handy, Lowell K. 45528 45528