%0 Journal Article
%T Israelite and Judahite History in Contemporary Theoretical Approaches
%A Andrew Tobolowsky
%J Currents in Biblical Research
%@ 1745-5200
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1476993X18765117
%X This article surveys developments in the study of the histories of ancient Israel and Judah with a focus on the last ten years. Over that period there has been an increased focus on extrabiblical evidence, over biblical text, as the primary means of constructing comprehensive histories, and a revival of interest in post-modern and linguistic-turn theories with respect to establishing what kinds of histories should be written. This study offers a general discussion of the last decade¡¯s trends; an inquiry into the possibility that Judahite authors only assumed an Israelite identity after the fall of Israel; and an era-by-era investigation of particular developments in how scholars think about the various traditional periods of Israelite and Judahite history. The latter inquiry spans the pre-monarchical period to the Persian period
%K Ancient Israel
%K ancient Judah
%K united monarchy
%K Period of the Dual Monarchies
%K Persian period
%K Panisraeliteism
%K post-modernism
%K King David
%K Jerusalem
%K Yehud
%K history
%K historiography
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1476993X18765117