02715nam 2200505 450 991079530210332120190603045821.00-88414-217-5(CKB)4340000000209576(MiAaPQ)EBC5109047(EXLCZ)99434000000020957620171121d2017 uy 0engurcn#||||||||rdacontentstirdacontentcrirdacontentrdamediardacarrierBeyond the texts an archaeological portrait of ancient Israel and Judah /William G. DeverAtlanta, Georgia :SBL Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (773 pages) illustrations, maps0-88414-218-3 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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."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"--Provided by publisher.Excavations (Archaeology)IsraelJewsHistory1200-953 B.CJewsHistory953-586 B.CIsraelAntiquitiesPalestineAntiquitiesPalestineHistoryTo 70 A.DExcavations (Archaeology)JewsHistoryJewsHistory933Dever William G.635377MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795302103321Beyond the texts3822357UNINA