Baruch Halpern uses both biblical and archeological evidence as well as psychological analysis to uncover the real David: a politician whose role in a turbulent society allowed him to behave poorly in a number of circumstances. His text follows the evolution of several written accounts of David, which are by Haplern's analysis highly glorified. A ...
An important reinterpretation of the Hebrew Bible as historiography, now available in paper. The First Historians is a book that no one with serious interest in biblical scholarship can afford to neglect. Halpern is one of the most fertile, exuberant, and audacious minds of his generation. He is witty, learned, and outrageous in turn, a ...
Three major essays by Baruch Halpern, Brian Peckham and Paul E. Dion deal with traumatic changes in Israelite culture, in particular the transition from the traditional culture of Israel in Iron Age IIA (tenth-ninth centuries) to a new, more widely literate culture in the eighth-seventh centuries BCE. These essays throw into relief changes in ...
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