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Length: 500 words
Description: Select Week 2tutorial topic and answer the questions in the tutorial. The use, and evaluation, of modern sources (i.e. scholarship, found in the bibliographies) will assist in obtaining high marks (see ‘Generic Skills’).
Week 2 Tutorial: The Merneptah Stele
Compulsory Readings: The Merneptah Stele
Miller and Hayes, A History of Ancient Israel and Judah, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press / London: SCM, 2006), p.30-60.
Demsky, A., “Reading Northwest Semitic Inscriptions”, Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol.70:2, (2007), 68-73.
This tutorial introduces you to the skills needed in how to assess an ancient source for historical information. What is covered in this tutorial is foundational for later tutorials
Questions:
1. Critically assess the Merneptah Stele as a source for historical information.
a) Identify as many features of the Stele that you can; e.g. professed author, type of evidence, likely date, etc.
b) Use the above criteria to critically assess the source. What can it tell us? How reliable is it? What sorts of things do we need to consider when reading it?
Assessing an ancient source means carefully considering it from as many angles as possible, and in relation to the context from which it arises. Consider the following issues:
Type of evidence
Intended audience
Biases
Transmission
Preservation
Modern Interpretation/Viewer bias
Limitations of the source
Further reading:
*available via Macquarie University Library online journal databases
** in MQ Library
# available on e-reserve
*Ahlström, G.W., and D. Edelman, ‘Merneptah’s Israel’, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 44 (1985) 59-61.
*Bimson, J.J., ‘Merneptah’s Israel and Recent Theories of Israelite Origins’, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 49 (1991) 3-29.
*Hasel, Michael G., ‘Israel in the Merneptah Stela’, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 296 (1994) 45-61.
*Hjelm, Ingrid, Thompson, Thomas L., ‘Israel in the Merneptah Stela’, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 27 (2002) 3-18.
#Leuchter, Mark, ‘“Why Tarry the Wheels of his Chariot?” (Judg 5,28): Canaanite Chariots And echoes of Egypt in the Song of Deborah’, Biblica 91 (2010) 256-268.
*Kitchen, Kenneth, ‘The Victories of Merenptah and the Nature of their Record’, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 28 (2004) 259-272.
**Manassa, Colleen, The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13th Century BC (Yale Egyptological Studies 5; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003) PJ1526.K3.M36
*Margalith, O., ‘On the origin and Antiquity of the Name, “Israel”’, Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 102 (1990) 225-237.
Petrie, F., Six Temple at Thebes (1897) http://www.archive.org/details/sixtemplesattheb00petruoft
**Rainey, Anson F., ‘Israel in Merenptah’s Inscription and Reliefs’, Israel Exploration Journal 51 (2001) 57-75. [Unable to be placed on e-reserve]
*Schulman, Alan R., ‘The Great Historical Inscription of Merneptah at Karnak: A Partial Reappraisal’, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 24 (1987) 21-34.
*Singer, Itamar, ‘Merneptah’s Campaign to Canaan and the Egyptian Occupation of the Southern Coastal Plain of Palestine in the Ramesside Period’, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 269 (1988) 1-10.
*Whitelam, K., ‘“Israel is laid waste; His seed is no more”: What if Merneptah’s scribes were telling the truth?’, Biblical Interpretation 8 (2000) 8-22.
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