Israel in Transition: historical method exemplified in two seminal periods (Early Iron and Early Hellenistic)

AHRC部分是一个更广泛项目的一部分，旨在解决古代以色列和犹太人历史上两个开创性时期(约公元前1200年至公元前850年和约公元前400年至公元前200年)以色列的发展问题，目的是考虑方法问题和与撰写古代以色列和犹大历史有关的问题。该项目力求解决这些问题：(1)召集专家小组讨论这些问题，然后发表他们的意见；(2)为首席调查员提供完成专著的背景(为此获得了研究假补助金)。尽管对以色列历史的这一开创性时期进行了激烈的辩论，但最近没有一本好的出版物汇集了整个巴勒斯坦早期铁器时代过渡的主要观点和证据。在AHRC的资助下，计划了两个活动，目的是制作两本编辑过的卷。第一次是专门讨论第一阶段考古学的研讨会，邀请了大约12名专业考古学家就这些问题进行辩论。该会议于2006年4月举行，其中的论文卷于2008年出版。第二部分侧重于欧洲历史方法论研讨会，该研讨会由首席调查员于1995年创立，此后每年召开一次，迄今已出版了七卷，另一卷已在报刊上发表。研讨会举行了两次会议，更多地侧重于这一时期的文本和历史方面。这些随笔的一卷已经出版了。这两卷书合在一起组成一个单元(都有相同的标题。第一卷的副标题是第一卷的考古，另一卷的副标题是第二卷的正文)。第一卷有一章总结了该卷对考古学辩论的贡献，但第二卷的结论也包括考古学产生的一些主要问题，因此是这两卷的总结。更广泛的项目还设想召开一次专门讨论波斯晚期/希腊早期过渡(不是由AHRC资助)的会议，该会议确实是在2007年4月举行的，正在编辑一卷。最后，首席调查员编写了一部关于早期希腊化时期(公元前335-175年)的专著，作为他的《第二圣殿时期的犹太人和犹太教历史》(2008年出版)的第二卷，由AHRC的配对学习假计划资助。

The AHRC portion is part of a wider project aiming to address the problem of Israel's development during two seminal periods in the history of ancient Israel and the Jews (c. 1200 to 850 BCE and about 400-200 BCE), with the objective of considering methodological questions and problems relating to writing a history of ancient Israel and Judah. The project sought to deal with these issues (1) by bringing together groups of specialists to debate the issues and then to publish their contributions and (2) by providing a context for the principal investigator to finish a monograph (for which a Research Leave grant was obtained). In spite of the intense debate over this seminal period of Israel's history, there is no good recent publication that brings together the main views and evidence for the early Iron Age transition for the whole of Palestine. With AHRC funding two events were planned, with the object of producing two edited volumes. The first was a symposium specifically on the archaeology of the first period, with a dozen or so professional archaeologists invited to debate the issues. This was held in April 2006, and the volume of the papers from it appeared in 2008. A second part centred on the European Seminar in Historical Methodology, founded in 1995 by the principal investigator and convened annually ever since, with seven volumes published so far and another in the press. Two meetings were held by the Seminar, focusing more on the textual and historical aspects of this period. A volume of these essays is in the press. These two volumes together form a unit (both have the same title. Transitions in Israel, with the sub-title of volume one being Volume 1 The Archaeology and the sub-title of the other being Volume 2 The Text). Volume 1 has a concluding chapter that summarizes the contribution of the volume to debate on archaeology, but the Conclusion of volume 2 also includes some of the main issues arising from the archaeology and thus serves as a concluding synthesis for both volumes. The broader project also envisaged another conference specifically on the late Persian/early Greek transition (not AHRC funded), which indeed took place in April 2007, with a volume in the process of editing. Finally, the principal investigator has produced a monograph on the early Hellenistic period (335-175 BCE) as volume 2 of his History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period (published 2008), which was funded under the AHRC's Matching Study Leave scheme.