ABSTRACT
A discussion on the impact of poststructuralism in general history, and in biblical studies in particular, noting the approaches the intellectual trend has made available at the turn of the 20th century (feminist, postcolonial, etc.). History and ideology have become the central issue of discussion in the revision of ancient Israel’s history since the 1990s, and such an intellectual and historiographical self-awareness should therefore force the historiography about ancient Israel to overcome its weaknesses – its utter dependence on the biblical narrative’s portrait of land’s past – and address properly the past of ancient Palestine, offering ‘an inclusivist reading of the past of the region’.
