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UNINA9910827621503321 |
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Autore |
Sicker Martin |
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Titolo |
The rise and fall of the ancient Israelite states / / Martin Sicker |
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Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2003 |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024 |
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ISBN |
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979-82-16-00912-2 |
1-280-46955-2 |
9786610469550 |
0-313-05189-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jews - History - To 586 B.C |
Jews - Kings and rulers |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-258) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; 1. Israelite History in Theopolitical Perspective; 2. The Geopolitical Setting; 3. The Israelite Conquest; 4. The Era of Tribal Confederacies; 5. From Confederacy to National State; 6. The Dual Monarchy: The Reign of David; 7. The Dual Monarchy: The Reign of Solomon; 8. The Rise and Fall of the Kingdom of Israel; 9. Decline and Fall of the Kingdom of Judah; 10. The Aftermath; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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By subjecting biblical writings to a political analysis, Sicker constructs a plausible political history of the ancient Israelite states that dealt with virtually every issue faced by governments throughout subsequent history. As he makes clear, the way they dealt with those issues, successfully or otherwise, is highly instructive and relevant to today's analysis of geopolitical issues.||Our knowledge of the political history of ancient Israel is almost exclusively dependent on the information that may be gleaned from biblical writings, which reflect a historiosophical perspective very differe |
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