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  • 26 - David Did It, Others Did Not: The creation of Ancient Israel

  • from VI - HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS
  • Edited by Thomas E. Levy, University of California, San Diego, Thomas Higham, Oxford University
  • Book:
    The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating
    Published by:
    Acumen Publishing
    Published online:
    05 June 2014
    Print publication:
    30 November 2005, pp 422-438

  • Summary

    Abstract

    The absolute dating of the Iron Age is based on a solar eclipse together with calendrical continuity into the Roman era and thereafter. Correlating literary sources to the chronological framework poses few problems, especially since our continuous Biblical historiographic sources conform to epigraphic chronological evidence to an extraordinary extent. So two issues arise in the attempt to connect text to mound: what does the Biblical or epigraphic evidence imply for a particular, dated, period, and what does the archaeological horizon imply for its particular concatenation of occupations? Typically, attempts to correlate the archaeological to the historical record have been facile. The textual evidence must be taken critically—neither endorsed nor dismissed, but evaluated—before such a correlation can be suggested. How, then, do we correlate archaeological horizons with textual indices? Do the absolute correlations offer any control on the dating of archaeological horizons between them?

    I

    When Arnold Toynbee published A Study of History (1956), the reviews were both many and varied. Scholars of all sorts of subjects contributed the reviews, from Indology and Sinology to American history. Most of the reviews ran more or less like this: this work is a real contribution. In my field, it is not very good, but on every other front it is brilliant.

    Everyone enjoys truly multi-disciplinary conferences, for those are the venues in which scholars in other disciplines reveal their disagreements, and the logic actuating their positions.

  • Biolistic transformation of Cercospora caricis, a specific pathogenic fungus of Cyperus rotundus

  • Radi ALY, Nurit HALPERN, Baruch RUBIN, Evgenia DOR, Shmuel GOLAN, Joseph HERSHENHORN
  • Journal:
    Mycological Research / Volume 105 / Issue 2 / February 2001
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    18 April 2001, pp. 150-152
    Print publication:
    February 2001

  • Cercospora caricis is being considered as a bioherbicide agent for use against purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus), one of the world's worst weeds. However, first its efficiency must be improved, for example by genetic transformation. By optimizing physical and biological parameters, the particle gun acceleration method (biolistics) has been adapted to transform mycelial cells of C. caricis. Two genes were expressed in C. caricis by biolistic transformation. The β-glucuronidase gene (GUS) fused to the GDP1 promoter of Cochliobolus hetrostrophus and the hygromycin B resistance gene under control of the PtrpC promoter of Aspergillus nidulans. Although the transformation frequency was not high, all transformants were stable when they were propagated on a selective medium after eight subsequent transfers.

  • The Resourceful Israelite Historian: The Song of Deborah and Israelite Historiography

  • Baruch Halpern
  • Journal:
    Harvard Theological Review / Volume 76 / Issue 4 / October 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 June 2011, pp. 379-401
    Print publication:
    October 1983

  • Judges 5, the Song of Deborah, is and has traditionally been one of the foci of biblical study. Artistically, it evinces a consummate skill, with a series of powerful scenes and strong stanzas. Literarily, it has broad import, particularly in that it is one of the oldest integral texts in the Hebrew Bible. Few scholars dissent from the proposition that the poem is premonarchic. As a result, it represents also a virtually unimpeachable source for the study of early Israel.