tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post111071297173800448..comments2024-03-23T07:33:30.972+00:00Comments on Quodlibeta: Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01594220073836613367noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1110972967601164402005-03-16T11:36:00.000+00:002005-03-16T11:36:00.000+00:00Bede, you'll want to look out for Brian Hesse and ...Bede, you'll want to look out for Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish, "Pig Lovers and Pig Haters: Patterns of Palestinian Pork Production", <EM>Journal of Ethnobiology</EM>, 10(2): 195-225, 1990; as well as "Can Pig Remains be Used for Ethnic Diagnosis in the Ancient Near East?" in Silberman & Small, <EM>The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present</EM>, JSOT Supplementary Series 237, 1997. As far as most people are concerned, pig bones are a dead issue--Dever was just wrong--absence of pig bones tells us absolutely nothing. I excerpted a bit of their conclusions <A HREF="http://www.eblaforum.org/main/viewtopic.php?t=219" REL="nofollow">here</A>.<BR/><BR/>On the Merneptah stele, there are instances of cultures disappearing and reappearing with no relation to their former namesakes, the most prominent being the Hatti (Hittites), and their successors, the neo-Hittites, whom we most associate with the Biblical Hittites. I have posted an overview of <A HREF="http://www.eblaforum.org/main/viewtopic.php?t=1193" REL="nofollow">positions</A> with respect to the Merneptah stele which you may find useful. Lemche, incidentally, is very much in line with the mainstream on the Merneptah Stele, while Tel Dan, unfortunately, is not as unequivocal as you may like it to be, but there is not the time to go into it here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-1110732090184793612005-03-13T16:41:00.000+00:002005-03-13T16:41:00.000+00:00For an admirably short (200 pages) and illuminatin...For an admirably short (200 pages) and illuminating discussion of minimalist histories of Israel, post-modernism, recent OT Theology, and how these are related, I can recommend 'History and Ideology in the Old Testament: Biblical Studies at the End of a Millennium' by James BarrAndrew Criddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10529501480944256402noreply@blogger.com