Early history of the Israelite people : from the written and archaeological sources /
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| Author / Creator: | Thompson, Thomas L. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1992. |
| Description: | xv, 489 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the history of the ancient Near East, 0169-9024 ; v. 4 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1422812 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Historical-Critical Research and Extrabiblical Sources. 1. The Documentary Hypothesis. 2. Synthesis of Biblical Tradition and History of the Ancient Near East. 3. The Rise of Biblical Archaeology
- II. Social Anthropology and the History of Palestine. 1. Historical Polarities. 2. The Extrabiblical Sources. 3. Amplifications of Alt's Settlement Hypothesis
- III. Historicity and the Deconstruction of Biblical Historiography. 1. The Conservative Movement of Biblical Archaeology. 2. Early Alternatives to Settlement and Conquest Theories. 3. The Systematic Critique of the Comparative Method. 4. The Historicity of the Period of the Judges. 5. The Search for a New Paradigm for the History of Israel. 6. The United Monarchy and the Origin of Israel. 7. The Synthesis of Syro-Palestinian Archaeology. 8. Ideology and Biblical Historiography
- IV. New Departures towards in Independent History of Israel. 1. An Anthropological Revision of Alt's Settlement Hypothesis. 2. Agriculture in the Central Hills. 3. Sociology and the Rise of the Monarchy. 4. Archaeology and an Independent History of Israel
- V. The Origins of the Population and Settlements of the West Semites of Greater Palestine. 1. Origin of the Semites in the "Green Sahara" 2. The Early Bronze Age and the Development of a Mediterranean Economy. 3. Early Bronze IV - Middle Bronze I Transition and Desendentarization. 4. Middle Bronze II and Early State Development. 5. The Late Bronze Period: Economic Stress and Regional Collapse
- VI. The Late Bronze-Iron Age Transition. 1. The Collapse of Late Bronze Civilization in the Western Mediterranean. 2. The Central Hills of Ephraim and Manasseh. 3. The Galilee and Carmel Hills. 4. The Lowland Valleys. 5. The Coastal Plain. 6. The Shephelah and the Northern Negev. 7. Benjamin and Judah. 8. The Transjordan
- VII. Israel and Ethnicity in Palestine. 1. Palestine's Diversity. 2. Israelites and Canaanites. 3. The Mediterranean Economy of Greater Palestine. 4. Population Coherence and Proto-Ethnicity. 5. The Destruction of Israel and Judah: Imperial Policies of Population Transportation
- VIII. Israel's Tradition: The Formation of Ethnicity. 1. The Literary Nature and Historicity of the Tradition. 2. Biblical Chronology. 3. Historiography. 4. Questions of Context and Reference
- IX. Conclusions: An Independent History of Israel. 1. The Separate Origins of "Israel" and "Judah" 2. "Israel" as a National Entity. 3. The Intellectual Matrix of Biblical Tradition.