Rethinking the foundations: historiography in the ancient world and in the Bible : essays in honour of John Van Seters

Front matter --; Foreword /; Contents --; Abbreviations --; John Van Seters: Freund und Kollege /; A Tribute to John Van Seters /; Tradition and History: The Scholarship of John Van Seters /; Samuel and Genesis: Some Questions of John Van Seters's "Yahwist" /; Noch einmal: Jakobs Traum in Bethel - Genesis 28,10-22 /; Hosea and the Wilderness Wandering Tradition /; The Parable of Nathan (II Sam. 12,1-4) and the Theory of Semiosis /; Gott als Lenker des menschlichen Schicksals in Platons Nomoi /; The Preferential Status of the Eldest Son Revoked? /; Good and Bad in History: The Greek Connection /; The Law of the Altar in Deuteronomy and the Cultic Site Near Shechem /; Abraham: The Priestly Writer's "Ecumenical" Ancestor /; New Light on Egypt's Stance towards Asia, 610-586 BCE /; Wie sieht Israel seine Geschichte? /; Du Temple au Livre: L'idéologie de la centralisation dans l'historiographie deutéronomiste /; "The Lord of Hosts, Seated over the Cherubs" /; Die Erzählung vom Goldenen Kalb Ex. 32* und das Deuteronomistische Geschichtswerk /; Rubeniten als exemplarische Aufrührer in Num. 16f*/Deut. 11 /; The Problem of Myth in Ancient Historiography /; Bibliography of John Van Seters /; Index of Authors --; Index of Old Testament References --; Back matter / McKenzie, Steven L. --; Schmid, Hans Heinrich --; Sparks, Kenton L. --; Thompson, Thomas L. --; Auld, A. Graeme --; Blum, Erhard --; Dozeman, Thomas B. --; Eynikel, Erik --; Kaiser, Otto --; Knoppers, Gary N. --; Lemche, Niels Peter --; Na'aman, Nadav --; Pury, Albert de --; Redford, Donald B. --; Rendtorff, Rolf --; Römer, Thomas C. --; Sasson, Jack M. --; Schmitt, Hans-Christoph --; Schorn, Ulrike --; Sparks, Kenton L. --; McCormick, Clifford Mark --