Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written & Archaeological SourcesThis is a groundbreaking book on the origins of Israel, taking into account the contexts of geography, anthropology, and sociology, and drawing on a careful analysis of archaeological and written evidence. Thompson argues that none of the traditional models for the origin of biblical Israel in terms of conquest, peaceful settlement, or revolution are viable. The ninth and eighth century BC State of Israel is a product of the Mediterranean economy. The development of the ethnic concept of biblical Israel finds its context in history first at the time of the Persian renaissance. The volume presents a clear historical context and an interpretative matrix for the Bible. |
Contents
Ancient Near East | 5 |
Social Anthropology and the History of Palestine | 27 |
Historicity and the Deconstruction of Biblical Historio | 77 |
ries | 84 |
The Historicity of the Period of the Judges | 96 |
The Search for a New Paradigm for the History | 105 |
The Synthesis of SyroPalestinian Archaeology | 112 |
New Departures towards in Independent History of Israel | 120 |
Early Bronze IVMiddle Bronze I Transition | 181 |
nal Collapse | 205 |
The Late BronzeIron Age Transition | 215 |
Israel and Ethnicity in Palestine | 301 |
of Population Transportation | 339 |
The Formation of Ethnicity | 353 |
An Independent History of Israel | 401 |
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Agriculture in the Central Hills | 141 |
Archaeology and an Independent History of Israel | 158 |
Semites of Greater Palestine | 171 |
Bibliography | 452 |
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