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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795302103321

Autore

Dever William G.

Titolo

Beyond the texts : an archaeological portrait of ancient Israel and Judah / / William G. Dever

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, Georgia : , : SBL Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-88414-217-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (773 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

933

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Israel

Jews - History - 1200-953 B.C

Jews - History - 953-586 B.C

Israel Antiquities

Palestine Antiquities

Palestine History To 70 A.D

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter I: "History from Things": on history and history-writing.  Excursus I: a critique of the "European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History," 1998-2010 -- Chapter II. Prelude: the physical and cultural setting at the end of the Bronze Age -- Chapter III. The emergence of Israel in the light of history. Excursus I: Rainey's Transjordanian Shasu as "Earliest Israel Excursis II: Finkelstein's "Sedentarized Pastoralists" -- Chapter IV. The rise of Territorial States: the 10th Cent Excursus I. C14 dates of Megiddo and Tel Rehov -- Chapter V. The consolidation of the State. The Iron II B Period (9th-8th cent.) -- Chapter VI. Iron IIC: Judah in the 7th Century.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--