HIST 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Davidic Line, Book Of Deuteronomy, Ten Lost Tribes
14 Mar 2018
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Represents expansion and unity, tribes under one ruler, glorious kingdom. Whenever there is a gap in the narrative forgeries appear. No archaeological evidence of a huge davidic kingdom. Can prove some cites for some events, but not that the events happened. Palestine - if david existed in 1000 bc then that supports the jewish claim to. Goal is to undermine jewish collective memory which is the same as. Want to undermine: problems with the bible as history. Translation, archaeology, gaps, domestication of camels came way later, problem of memory and interpretation - multiple "truths" contradictions in narrative: methods to deal with contradictions within historical text: reading against grain, negate for bias, understanding context. Problem of "truth" there is no historical truth but truths: bible. Presents a problem to western civilization - jews christians muslims to what its factuality, message and meaning is. Process of harmonization to reconcile differences in passages to make them say the same thing.
