Beschreibung:
Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East, this study aims at providing new understandings on the emergence of Israel in ancient Palestine and the socio-political dynamics at work in the Levant during antiquity
Introduction; Chapter 1 History, Historiography and History-Writing; Chapter 2 Approaches to the Social World of the Hebrew Bible; Chapter 3 The Archaeology of Ancient Palestine and Statehood; Chapter 4 An Historical-Anthropological Approach; Chapter 5; Chapter 6 Concluding Reflections;