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The issue of historiography in ancient Israel and Judah is complex and multifaceted, because ancient Israelite and Judahite authors wrote about the past in so many different ways. Virtually all of the prose works in the Hebrew Bible are devoted to speaking about a past. One immediately thinks of the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, and Ezra-Nehemiah. Taking a larger view, one could also include significant portions of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, even though Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy also contain much legal material, because these books include long narratives about Israel's origins.1 In this context, one could speak of a broadly defined Deuteronomistic historical writing that incorporates an earlier non-priestly exodus narrative, stretching from Exodus 1\* through Kings.2 Or, alternatively, one could speak of a Deuteronomistic historical writing, extending from Proto-Deuteronomy through Kings to which a Deuteronomisticlike foundational prehistory of origins has been prefaced, extending from Exodus to Deuteronomy.3 Or, again, one could speak simply of a Primary

Publisher

BRILL

Published

2021

Language

EN