TY - BOOK ID - 78139066 TI - Writing the history of Israel PY - 2006 SN - 1281803146 9786611803148 0567449548 9780567449542 0567026620 9780567026620 9781281803146 6611803149 PB - New York London T. & T. Clark DB - UniCat KW - Jews KW - Old Testament scholars KW - Bible scholars (Old Testament) KW - Scholars, Old Testament KW - Biblical scholars KW - History KW - Historiography. KW - History. KW - Bible. KW - Antico Testamento KW - Hebrew Bible KW - Hebrew Scriptures KW - Kitve-ḳodesh KW - Miḳra KW - Old Testament KW - Palaia Diathēkē KW - Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa KW - Sean-Tiomna KW - Stary Testament KW - Tanakh KW - Tawrāt KW - Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim KW - Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim KW - Velho Testamento KW - Palestine KW - Holy Land KW - 933 KW - 933 Geschiedenis van Palestina en het Joodse volk KW - Geschiedenis van Palestina en het Joodse volk KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - History&delete& KW - Historiography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139066 AB - No biblical historian is included in the standard dictionaries of historians. Banks' study examines the boundaries as well as the links that exists between history writing in biblical studies and the practice of history in university departments of history. She argues that while the influence of the profession of writing history is apparent, there are countervailing forces as well. The presupposition that the Bible is a book of history conditions the outcome of historical research in biblical studies. Banks argues that Julius Wellhausen's history of Israel set in motion the general tendency to ER -