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The social history of ancient Israel : an introduction
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Sozialgeschichte des alten Israel. English
Title
The social history of ancient Israel : an introduction / Rainer Kessler ; translated by Linda M. Maloney.
ISBN
9780800662820 (alk. paper)
0800662822 (alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2008.
Physical Description
ix, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Translated from Rainer Kessler, Sozialgeschichte des alten Israel: Eine Einführung (c2006 by Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt)"--T.p. verso.
Translated from the German.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 05, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-262) and indexes.
Contents
The social history method
Social history as discipline and as method
The social history of events and "the long term"
A description of social history
History of scholarship
Methods for studying the social history of Israel
Environment as living space
The geographical environment
The historical environment
Material remains
Archaeology : artifacts and interpretation
Epigraphic material from Israel and its environment
The texts of the Hebrew Bible
The historical reliability of the biblical accounts
Fiction and milieu
Intentional and unintentional tradition
Norm and reality
Dating biblical texts
In search of analogies
Societies in Israel's environment
Ethnology : from empirical studies to theory
Sociological categories
The epochs of Israel's social history
Israel's origins as a kinship-based society
The beginnings of something called Israel
Structures of kinship-based societies
Israel and Judah : from early statehood to full development
From initial statehood to the middle of the eighth century
The beginnings of a state
Society and state under monarchical rule
Profiles of monarchy in Israel and Judah
The formation of an ancient class society
The political background from the eighth to the sixth century
Israel and Judah as an ancient class society
Exiles and their consequences
From Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus
Judah under Babylonian rule
Israel in exile
Provincial society under Persia
From Cyrus to Alexander
Society and state in Judah and Samaria in the Persian period
Temple and Torah
Life in the diaspora
Yehud, Samaria, Israel : a provincial society in the Persian period
The Jewish ethnos in the Hellenistic age
From Alexander the Great to the Hasmoneans
Changes in society and state
Hellenistic governance structures
The many forms of "Israel"
Conclusion
Trans-epochal features of Israel's social history
Israel's identity
Prospect : the theological relevance of social history.
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