Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: An IntroductionThis unusually comprehensive textbook represents the most recent approaches to the biblical world by surveying Palestine's social, political, economic, religious and ecological changes from Palaeolithic to Roman eras. Designed for beginners with little knowledge of the ancient world, and with copious illustrations and charts, it explains how and why academic study of the past is undertaken, as well as the differences between historical and theological scholarship and the differences between ancient and modern genres of history writing. Classroom tested chapters emphasize the authenticity of the Bible as a product of an ancient culture, and the many problems with the biblical narrative as a historical source. Neither 'maximalist' nor 'minimalist' it is sufficiently general to avoid confusion and to allow the assignment of supplementary readings such as biblical narratives and ancient Near Eastern texts. |
Contents
List of Figures | 9 |
Chapter 2 | 31 |
Chapter 3 | 58 |
PRIOR TO THE LATE BRONZE AGE | 83 |
Chapter 5 | 108 |
Chapter 6 | 136 |
Chapter 7 | 170 |
THE IRON AGE II | 199 |
Chapter 9 | 238 |
Chapter 10 | 283 |
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Common terms and phrases
19th Dynasty academic Ancient Near East ancient world archaeological data archaeologists artifacts Assyrian Baal Babylon Bible biblical authors called Canaan Canaanite Central Hills century BCE chapter chronology Cisjordan Cisjordan Highlands city-states common Damascus David Dead Sea Deut Deuteronomy discussed divine Dynasty early Egypt Egyptian empire ethnic group evidence example exodus Figure genre of history Gezer gods Greek Hazor Hebrew henotheism historian history writing human humanist hypothesis ideological inscriptions Iron Age Israel Israelite Jerusalem Jewish Jews Jezreel Valley Joshua JSOTSup Judaean Hills Judah Judaism king kingdom land Late Bronze Age literature lived Merneptah Mesopotamia Middle Bronze Mitanni Moab modern narration narrative Neolithic Palestine Palestine's past patron period Persian Philistine political population positivist pottery prophet Ramesses Ramesses III region religion religious royal Samaria scholars scribes scrolls Sheffield Shephelah social society Solomon story Syria Syria-Palestine temple tenth century Torah tradition Ugarit United Monarchy villages Yahweh
References to this book
Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel William G. Dever Limited preview - 2008 |
Philosophy and Practice in Writing a History of Ancient Israel Megan Bishop Moore Limited preview - 2006 |