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Lecturer(s)
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Visi Tamás, doc. Ph.D., M.A.
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Course content
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Program: 1. Biblical criticism from Ibn Ezra to Wellhausen. 2. Biblical archeology: the beginnings, the Albright-school, and the "New Archeology." 3. The biblical stories about the patriarchs and Exodus in light of historical evidence. 3. The Bronze Age: Longue Durée structures. 4. The Bronze Age: El-Amarna letters and the Sea People. 5. The Early Iron Age: the Emergence of Israel. 6. From Saul to the Omri-dynasty. King Saul: legends and realities. Pharaoh Sheshonq's campaign. 7. The battle at Qarqar, the Mesha-stele, and the Tel Dan-stele. The fall of the Omrids. 8. Jehu-dynasty. Black obelisk. Samaria ostraca. The first prophets 9. The Assyrian invasion and the first deportations. The beginnings of the diaspora 10. The sudden transformation of Judah. Hizkiyahu's reforms. Sin-ahe-eriba's campaign and its consequences. 11. Josiah's rule and reforms.The prophetic movement and the king. The Deuteronomistic chronicle. The death of Josiah. 12. The last kings of Judah. The Babylonian diaspora. Jeremiah. Ezekiel. The Egyptian diaspora. 13. The collapse of the Babylonian empire. Deutero-Isaiah. Cyrus' edict and return to the land of Israel. 14. Judah as a province of the Persian empire. Contacts with Egypt and Babylonia. The Jewish colony on Elephantine. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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Student will learn the basic differences between traditional and modern-critical approaches to biblical history. The importance of recent archeological discoveries, methodological issues, theoretical models will be highlighted just as the use of the Hebrew Bible in current political, ethnic and religious conflicts particularly in the Middle East.
Knowledge of the basic methodologies of archeology and ancient history. Orientation in the chronology of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in the Levant, and especially the kingdoms of Israel and Judah (ca. 10th-6th centuries).
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Prerequisites
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None.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark
exam - list of exam topic: www.jud.upol.cz
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Recommended literature
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Israel Finkelstein and Neil A. Silbermann. (2001). The Bible Unearthed. New York, etc.
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Israel Finkelstein. (2013). The Forgotten Kingdom. Atlanta.
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