The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

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ISBN: 9781845535292 | 1845535294
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Copyright: 8/8/2014

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Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East, this book provides new understandings on the emergence of Israel in ancient Palestine and the socio-political dynamics at work in the Levant during antiquity.

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Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Defining the Case	p. 2
The Contents	p. 8
History, Historiography and History-Writing	p. 11
A Perspective on History: Israel's Past as a Part of Ancient Palestine's Past	p. 11
Historiography: Biblical, Ancient and Modern	p. 26
Biblical Narrative and Ancient Historiography	p. 29
Excursus: On Biblical Hebrew and the Dating of Texts	p. 39
History Writing: Principles and Methods	p. 47
The Bible, Theology and History: An Historian's Approach	p. 58
Approaches to the Social World of the Hebrew Bible	p. 69
Biblical Narrative and Socio-Historical Imagination	p. 69
Evolutionary Discourse and Biblical Discourse	p. 76
An Alternative Path	p. 82
The Archaeology of Ancient Palestine and Statehood	p. 87
The Bible, Archaeology and Israel's History	p. 87
Alleged Evidence of Israelite Statehood	p. 90
Towards an Archaeology of Patronage?	p. 108
An Historical-Anthropological Approach	p. 113
A Plea for an Historical Anthropology of Ancient Palestine	p. 113
Chiefdoms and States, or Prestige and Power in Society	p. 115
Patronage in the Ancient Near East and Israel	p. 121
Patronage in Ancient Near Eastern Texts	p. 124
The Amarna Letters	p. 124
Hittite Treaties	p. 130
Syrian Inscriptions	p. 132
Assyrian Treaties	p. 135
On the Socio-Political Nature of Patronage	p. 138
Covenant Theology and Patronage	p. 143
Royal Patronage Ideology in the Ancient Near East	p. 150
Excursus: Patronage and Sectarianism	p. 155
A World of Patrons and Clients	p. 158
The First Israel: The Rise of the House of Omri	p. 161
The Late Bronze-Iron Age Transition and Palestine's Israel	p. 161
Archaeology, Peer Polities and Trade: An Historical-Anthropological Hypothesis	p. 173
The Rise of the House of Omri-or, Historical Israel in Ancient Palestine	p. 182
A Final Historiographical Commentary	p. 185
Concluding Reflections	p. 188
Bibliography	p. 195
Index of References	p. 230
Index of Authors	p. 231
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