Beyond the Texts: An Archaeological Portrait of Ancient Israel and JudahA handbook for biblical scholars and historians of the Ancient Near East William G. Dever offers a welcome perspective on ancient Israel and Judah that prioritizes the archaeological remains to render history as it was—not as the biblical writers argue it should have been. Drawing from the most recent archaeological data as interpreted from a nontheological point of view and supplementing that data with biblical material only when it converges with the archaeological record, Dever analyzes all the evidence at hand to provide a new history of ancient Israel and Judah that is accessible to all interested readers. Features
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The Emergence of Israel in the Light of History | 119 |
Raineys Transjordanian Shasu as Earliest Israel | 249 |
Finkelsteins Sedentarized Pastoralists | 255 |
The Rise of Territorial States | 259 |
C14 Dates of Megiddo and Tel Rehov | 383 |
The Consolidation of the State | 391 |
Iron IIC | 547 |
Conclusion | 629 |
Works Cited | 649 |
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acres ancient Israel Arad Aramean archaeological archaeological data archaeological evidence artifacts Asherah Ashkelon Assyrian Beersheba Beth-Shean Beth-Shemesh biblical scholars biblical texts bichrome Bunimovitz Canaan Canaanite ceramic circa city wall cooking pot cult destroyed destruction Dever discussed early Iron early Israelite Egyptian eighth century Ekron eleventh ethnic excavated Faust feet figurines Finkelstein Galilee gate Gezer Gitin Hazor Hebrew Bible hill country inscription Iron Age Iron I period Iron IIA Israel and Judah Israelite Jerusalem Judahite king Lachish Late Bronze Age late eighth low chronology material culture Mazar Megiddo Negev ninth ninth–eighth century northern ostraca pastoral nomads Phase Philistine Phoenician pillar-courtyard houses population pottery Rainey Ramesses Ramesses III region Reḥov rural Samaria sedentarized settlement seventh century Shasu Shephelah Shoshenq southern Levant Stager store jars Strata Stratum structure Tell Beit Mirsim Tell el-Farʿah temple tenth century tion town Transjordan urban Ussishkin VA/IVB villages wares