Authors: Israel Finkelstein,Neil Asher Silberman
Authors’ Note:
Although there is a rich scholarly literature on David and Solomon also in Hebrew, German, French, and other European languages, we have selected the main sources in English for this bibliography (including translations from German). In a very few cases Hebrew, German, or French sources are cited when they are the only relevant references to a particular subject.
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ENERAL
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ACKGROUND
Encyclopedias
THE MAIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN ISRAEL AND JORDAN
Stern, E., ed. 1993.
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land.
Jerusalem.
BIBLE ENTRIES
Freedman, D. N., ed. 1992.
The Anchor Bible Dictionary.
New York.
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Meyers, E. M., ed. 1997.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East.
New York.
Sasson, J. M., ed. 1995.
Civilizations of the Ancient Near East.
London.
Archaeological method
Renfrew, C., and P. Bahn. 1991.
Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice.
London.
History of archaeological research in Palestine
Silberman, N. A. 1982.
Digging for God and Country: Exploration in the Holy Land 1799–1917.
New York.
Introductory books on the archaeology of the Levant
Ben-Tor, A., ed. 1992.
The Archaeology of Ancient Israel.
New Haven.
Levy, T. E., ed. 1995.
The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land.
London.
Mazar, A. 1990.
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible 10,000–586
B.C.E
. New York.
Stern, E. 2001.
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible. Vol. II, The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods 732–332
BCE
. New York.
Geographical history of the Land of Israel
Aharoni, Y. 1979.
The Land of the Bible: A Historical Geography.
Philadelphia.
Translation of ancient Near Eastern texts
Pritchard, J. B. 1969.
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament.
Princeton.
History of ancient Israel
Alt, A. 1966.
Essays on Old Testament History and Religion.
Oxford.
Finkelstein, I., and N. Silberman. 2001.
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts.
New York.
Liverani, M. Forthcoming 2005.
Israel’s History and the History of Israel.
Miller, M. J., and J. H. Hayes. 1986.
A History of Ancient Israel and Judah.
London.
Historiography in the Bible
Halpern, B. 1988.
The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History.
San Francisco.
Long, V. P., ed. 1999.
Israel’s Past in Present Research: Essays on Ancient Israelite Historiography.
Winona Lake.
Van Seters, J. 1983.
In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History.
New Haven.
Commentaries on 1 and 2 Samuel
McCarter, K. P. 1980.
I Samuel.
Garden City.
———. 1984.
II Samuel.
Garden City.
Commentaries on 1 and 2 Kings
Brueggemann, W. 2000.
1& 2 Kings.
Macon.
Cogan, M., and H. Tadmor. 1988–2001.
Kings.
Garden City.
Gray, J. 1970.
I & II Kings: A Commentary.
London.
Commentaries on 1 and 2 Chronicles
Japhet, S. 1993.
I & II Chronicles: A Commentary.
Louisville.
Williamson, H. G. M. 1982.
1 and 2 Chronicles.
London.
General books on David
Alter, R. 1999.
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel.
New York.
Ash, P. S. 1999.
David, Solomon and Egypt: A Reassessment.
Sheffield.
Auld, G. 1994.
Kings Without Privilege: David and Moses in the Story of the Bible’s Kings.
Edinburgh.
Brueggemann, W. 1985.
David’s Truth in Israel’s Imagination and Memory.
Philadelphia.
Fleminger, J. 2002.
Behind the Eyes of David.
Sussex.
Frontain, R.-J., and J. Wojcik, eds. 1981.
The David Myth in Western Literature.
West Lafayette.
Halpern, B. 2001.
David’s Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King.
Grand Rapids.
Kirsh, J. 2000.
King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel.
New York.
Isser, S. 2003.
The Sword of Goliath: David in Heroic Literature.
Atlanta.
McKenzie, S. L. 2000.
King David: A Biography.
Oxford.
Mettinger, T. N. D. 1976.
King and Messiah: The Civil and Sacral Legitimation of the Israelite Kings.
Lund.
Noll, K. L. 1997.
The Faces of David.
Sheffield.
Schniedewind, W. M. 1999.
Society and the Promise to David: The Reception History of 2 Samuel 7:1–17.
Oxford.
Selected articles on David
Dietrich, W., and W. Naumann. 2000. The David-Saul Narrative. In G. N. Knoppers and J. G. McConville, eds.,
Reconsidering Israel and Judah: Recent Studies on the Deuteronomistic History,
276–318. Winona Lake.
Edelman, D. 2000. The Deuteronomistic David and the Chronicler’s David: Competing and Contrasting Ideologies? In T. Römer, ed.,
The Future of the Deuteronomistic History,
67–83. Leuven.
Gordon, R. P. 1994. In Search of David: The David Tradition in Recent Study. In A. R. Millard, J. K. Hoffmeier, and D. W. Baker, eds.,
Faith, Tradition, and History,
285–98. Winona Lake.
Knoppers, G. N. 1998. David’s Relation to Moses: The Contexts, Content and Conditions of the Davidic Promises. In J. Day, ed.,
King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East,
91–118. Sheffield.
Lohfink, N. 2000. Which Oracle Granted Perdurability to the Davidides? A Textual Problem in 2 Kings 8:19 and the Function of the Dynastic Oracle in the Deuteronomistic Work. In G. N. Knoppers and J. G. McConville, eds.,
Reconsidering Israel and Judah: Recent Studies on the Deuteronomistic History,
421–43. Winona Lake.
McKenzie, S. L. 1999. Why Didn’t David Build the Temple? The History of a Biblical Tradition. In M. P. Graham, R. R. Marrs, and S. L. McKenzie, eds.,
Worship and the Hebrew Bible,
204–24. Sheffield.
———. 2001. The Typology of the Davidic Covenant. In A. J. Dearman and P. M. Graham, eds.,
The Land That I Will Show You: Essays in History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honour of J. Maxwell Miller,
152–78. Sheffield.
Na’aman, N. 1996. Sources and Composition in the History of David. In V. Fritz and Ph. Davies, eds.,
The Origin of the Ancient Israelite States,
170–86. Sheffield.
Peckham, B. 1985. The Deuteronomistic History of Saul and David.
Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
97:190–209.
Rofe, A. 2000. The Reliability of the Source About David’s Reign: An Outlook from Political Theory. In E. Blum, ed.,
Mincha: Festgabe für Rolf Rendtorff zum 75,
217–27. Neukirchen-Vluyn.
Rudman, D. 2000. The Commissioning Stories of Saul and David as Theological Allegory.
Vetus Testamentum
50:519–30.
Van der Toorn, K., and C. Houtman. 1994. David and the Ark.
Journal of Biblical Literature
113:209–31.
General books on Solomon
Handy, L. K., ed. 1997.
The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium.
Leiden.
Torijano, P. A. 2002.
Solomon the Esoteric King: From King to Magus, Development of a Tradition.
Leiden.
Selected articles on Solomon
Brettler, M. 1991. The Structure of 1 Kings 1–11.
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
49:87–97.
Frisch, A. 1991. Structure and Its Significance: The Narrative of Solomon’s Reign (1 Kings 1–12:24).
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
51:3–14.
———. 1997. A Literary and Theological Analysis of the Account of Solomon’s Sins (1 Kings 11:1–8).
Shnaton
11:167–79.
Knoppers, G. N. 1995. Prayer and Propaganda: Solomon’s Dedication of the Temple and the Deuteronomistic Program.
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
57:229–54.
Na’aman, N. 1997. Sources and Composition in the History of Solomon. In L. K. Handy, ed.,
The Age of Solomon: Scholarship in the Turn of the Millennium,
57–80. Leiden.
Sweeney, M. A. 1995. The Critique of Solomon in the Josianic Edition of the Deuteronomistic History.
Journal of Biblical Literature
114:607–22.
Van Seters, J. 1997. Solomon’s Temple: Fact and Ideology in Biblical and Near Eastern Historiography.
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
59:45–57.
Veijola, T. 2000. Solomon: Bathsheba’s Firstborn. In G. N. Knoppers and J. G. McConville, eds.,
Reconsidering Israel and Judah: Recent Studies on the Deuteronomistic History,
340–57. Winona Lake.
Traditional works on the archaeology of the united monarchy
Dever, W. G. 1997. Archaeology and the “Age of Solomon”: A Case Study in Archaeology and Historiography. In L. K. Handy, ed.,
The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium
217–51. Leiden.
Stager, L. E. 2003. The Patrimonial Kingdom of Solomon. In W. G. Dever and S. Gitin, eds.,
Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors from the Late Bronze Age Through Roman Palestine,
63–74. Winona Lake.
Yadin, Y. 1970. Megiddo of the Kings of Israel.
Biblical Archaeologist
33:66–96.
Problems with the traditional view on the archaeology of the united monarchy
Finkelstein, I. 1996. The Archaeology of the United Monarchy: An Alternative View.
Levant
28:177–87.
———. 1999. Hazor and the North in the Iron Age: A Low Chronology Perspective.
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
314:55–70.
Finkelstein, I., and E. Piasetzky. 2003. Recent Radiocarbon Results and King Solomon.
Antiquity
77:771–79.
Sass, B.
The Alphabet at the Turn of the Millennium.
Tel Aviv.
Problems with the historical reconstruction of the united monarchy
Knauf, E. A. 1997. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! A Biblical Argument for the Historicity of Solomon. In L. K. Handy, ed.,
The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium,
81–95. Leiden.
Miller, M. J. 1991. Solomon: International Potentate or Local King.
Palestine Exploration Quarterly
123:28–31.