The Origin of Biblical Israel by Philip R. Davies

“…The name ‘Israel’ was thus retained and redefined: ‘biblical Israel’ was invented, with Judah at its head. …”
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Philip R. Davies, The Origins of Biblical Israel by Paul S. Evans

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Myths of Brotherly Animosity and the Civil Wars of Biblical Israel by Diklah Zohar

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Review of Westbrook, Raymond and Bruce Wells, , Everyday Law in Biblical Israel: An Introduction (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2009). by Victor H. Matthews

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Review of Westbrook, Raymond and Bruce Wells, , Everyday Law in Biblical Israel: An Introduction Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2009). by David P. Wright

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Review of Lenzi, Alan, Secrecy and the Gods: Secret Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia and Biblical Israel (State Archives of Assyria Studies, 19; Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2008). by Lowell K. Handy

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The Jeroboam Story in the (Re)Formulation of Israelite Identity: Evaluating the Literary-Ideological Purposes of 1 Kings 11–14 by Ronald A. Geobey

“… The story of Jeroboam's secession from the Solomonic “empire” is an integral element of the process of identity reformulation within which context “Biblical Israel” asserted its antiquity. While this reading yields a greater understanding of its final form, it disassociates it from constituent elements preserving earlier versions. …”
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Reception of Isa 7:17 in Qumran: The Use of Ambiguity of the Biblical Text by Libor Marek

“…This type of redactional work is possible due to a recognition by the author of a continuity between the biblical Israel and the current (Qumran) community. While resolving the problems inherent to the biblical verse, the author of the Damascus Document also creates a new tension between the ways in which this verse is incorporated into the two documents.…”
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„BAPTIZED INTO MOSES” - „BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST”. THE BAPTISM OF POLAND IN THE LIGHT OF THE PASCHAL EXPERIENCE OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN THE REINTERPRETATION OF THE APOSTLE PAUL (1 COR... by Nalewaj Aleksandra

“…The example from the history of Biblical Israel does not refer solely to the Christians of Corinth. …”
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Wychowanie według Syracydesa by Jolanta Judyta Pudełko

“…This book contains a synthesis of tradition of biblical Israel but also shows openness to many positive elements of the Greek culture. …”
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The “Jew,” the nation and assimilation: the Old Testament and the fashioning of the “other” in German and Dutch Protestant thought by van der Tol, MDC

“…Since the seventeenth-century, Protestant theologians also entertained the possibility of theological othering on the basis of the legalism of the Mosaic covenant, of which ancient biblical Israel and its cultural liturgies were regarded as a token. …”

The Lemba - ‘angel-stars’, ngoma lungundu and ancestors by Prof Magdel le Roux

“…Hendel (2004) states that “the remembered past is the material with which biblical Israel constructed its identity as a people, a religion, and a culture. …”
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Black gods: The major assertions of the black Jewish movement in America by Amos Y. Luka

“…Secondly, what is the background of black Jews, and how does that relate to biblical Israel? Thirdly, what are the primary religious claims of black Jews? …”
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A Priestly Perspective on the Representation of History in the Praise of the Ancestors (Sir 44–49) by Jolanta Judyta Pudełko

“…Then, priesthood as viewed by Ben Sira was presented using specific examples of individuals known from the history of biblical Israel (Aaron, Phinehas, David, Samuel, Joshua son of Jehozadak). …”
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Jesus-oriented visions of Judaism in antiquity by Karin Hedner Zetterholm

“…Abandoning the practice of using rabbinic Judaism as the sole criterion for defining Jewishness in this time period allows us to see the theologies developed by such Jesus-oriented groups with a Jewish self-identity as profoundly Jewish, although non-rabbinic, visions of the history and calling of biblical Israel.…”
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Lending and Borrowing in the Teaching of Sirach (Sir 29:1–7) by Andrzej Piwowar

“…As a preliminary matter, the issue of borrowing in the setting of the ancient Near East and in biblical Israel is presented in a highly synthetic manner. …”
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Herem חרֵֶם and the Concept of Holy War in Traditional Judaism by Benjamin Lülik

“…A special twist is offered by the prophetic texts, which place the concept of herem as a mirror for the moral collapse of biblical Israel (Jeremiah 25:8-14). The Rabbinic Judaism of the Mishnah and Talmud, on the basis of the aforementioned biblical texts, then abandons the military use of the term herem and understands it in the sense of spiritual discipline, which concerns the exclusion of ungodly elements from the community. …”
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