9781628375121

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9781628375138

Revised edition.

[English edition].

"Revised edition of Christian Frevel, Geschichte Israels, 2nd ed. (Stuttgart : Kohlhammer, 2018)." -- Title page verso.

Translated from the German.

Archaeology and Biblical Studies ; no. 32

1. Preliminary remarks on history and historiography. 1.1. Historiography between past, present, and future ; 1.2. History as an interpretive and meaningful selection and construction ; 1.3. Minimalists, maximalists, and the sources of Israel's history ; 1.4. The sources of a history of Israel ; 1.5. When should a history of Israel begin? ; 1.6. What does Israel mean in the history of Israel? ; 1.7. The geographical region of the history of Israel and the names of the land ; 1.8. Biblical numbers and chronologies ; 1.9. Archaeological chronology and the history of Israel ; 1.10. The history of Israel as it relates to other histories

2. Israel's prehistory. 2.1. On the historicity of the patriarchs and matriarchs ; 2.2. The Late Bronze Age city-states in Palestine ; 2.3. Israel in Egypt and its earliest mention on the stela of Merenptah ; 2.4. The Exodus

3. Israel's early history and its origin in Palestine. 3.1. Preliminary remarks ; 3.2. Migration as a cause of conquest? ; 3.3. The decline of Canaanite urban culture ; 3.4. Early Israel's emergence ; 3.5. The emergence of the new village culture in the hill country ; 3.6. The so-called conquest in Transjordan ; 3.7. The so-called period of the Judges and the system of the twelve tribes of Israel

4. The emergence of the monarchy. 4.1. Preliminary remarks : forms of rule ; 4.2. Israel's neighbors and their development in the twelfth-ninth centuries BCE ; 4.3. Israel/Palestine before the emergence of a monarchic authority ; 4.4. Saul ; 4.5. The kingdom of David ; 4.6. The kingdom of Solomon ; 4.7. The so-called division of the kingdom ; 4.8. The campaign of Pharaoh Shoshenq

5. History of Israel and Judah. 5.1. Overview of the history of the Neo-Assyrian Empire ; 5.2. Sources and regional development ; 5.3. The Aramcans and their influence on the development of Israel and Judah ; 5.4. Israel and Judah under the Omrides ; 5.5. Jehu's coup and the reign of the Nimshides in the ninth/eighth centuries BCE ; 5.6. Judah under Assyrian influence and the fall of Israel in 720 BCE ; 5.7. Judah under Hezekiah after Israel's fall until 701 BCE ; 5.8. Judah in the seventh century BCE under Manasseh ; 5.9. Judah in the power play between Assyria, Babylon, and Egypt-Josiah ; 5.10. Judah as a Babylonian province and the end of the Kingdom of Judah ; 5.11. Judah after the kingdom's fall until the end of exile ; 5.12. The diaspora in Babylonia and in Egypt

6. The history of Israel in the Persian Period. 6.1. Overview of the history of the Persian Empire ; 6.2. The Persian Empire's economy, administration, and organization ; 6.3. The province of Yehud and its political status ; 6.4. The Cyrus Edict and the return from exile ; 6.5. Jerusalem's restoration and the construction of the Second Temple ; 6.6. The community's reorganization under Nehemiah; 6.7. Ezra's mission ; 6.8. Samaria, the Samarians, and the Samaritans ; 6.9. Idumea and the Idumeans ; 6.10. Sanctuaries in the Persian Period and the pluriformity of YHWH worship ; 6.11. The Persian Period as a formative period of later Judaism : summary

7. Israel's history in the Hellenistic Period. 7.1. Overview of the history of the Hellenistic Period ; 7.2. Hellenism ; 7.3. Economy, administration, and organization of the Hellenistic empires ; 7.4. Tobiads, Oniads, and the backgrounds of the Maccabean uprising ; 7.5. The crisis under Antiochus IV and the Maccabean uprising 7.5.1. Antiochus IV's policy toward Egypt ; 7.6. The Hasmoneans

8. The history of Israel in the Roman Period : an overview. 8.1. Palestine's reorganization under Roman rule ; 8.2. The revolts of Alexander and Antigonus ; 8.3. Judea after Caesar's victory ; 8.4. Herod the Great ; 8.5. Herod's successors ; 8.6. The Jewish War, 66-70 CE ; 8.7. The Bar Kokhba revolt, 132-135 CE

9. Epilogue

10. Appendices. 10.1. Chronological overviews ; 10.2. Glossary of selected technical terms ; 10.3. General and comprehensive literature ; 10.4. Maps ; 10.5. Place names with coordinates ; 10.6. Indexes.

Preliminary remarks on history and historiography

Israel's prehistory

Israel's early history and its origin in Palestine

The emergence of the monarchy

History of Israel and Judah

The history of Israel in the Persian Period

Israel's history in the Hellenistic Period

Epilogue.

Bible > History of Biblical events.

Jews > History > To 70 A.D.

Jews > History > 168 B.C.-135 A.D.

Israel > Antiquities.

Palestine > History > To 70 A.D.

Palestine > History > 70-638.

Middle East > Palestine.