Abstract
Review of J. Maxwell Miller and John H. Hayes, A History of Ancient Israel and Judah
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This review is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/jewishstudies_papers/5
The book maintains a moderate position between the two extremes that have been labeled “maximalism” and “minimalism.” They expected their earlier volume to draw fire from both sides of the debate, and “[t]his turned out to be the case” (p. xvii)
The book ends with the same two paragraphs as did the first edition, beginning with the remark, “[w]e know practically nothing about the history of the Jewish community between Ezra-Nehemiah and the conquest of Alexander the Great” (p. 538). (My perhaps mistaken impression is that we do know somewhat more about this period than we did twenty years ago.) But the preceding subsection, “Ezra's Attempted Reform,” can demonstrate the nature of the revision and the stance taken by Miller and Hayes
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Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/jewishstudies_papers Part of the Biblical Studies Commons, and the Jewish Studies Commons A History of Ancient Israel and Judah" (2007).
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