Research Catalog

Title

Early history of the Israelite people : from the written & archaeological sources / Thomas L. Thompson.

Author

Thompson, Thomas L., 1939-

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2000?]

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Details

Description

xv, 482 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Brill's Scholars' list

Uniform Title

Brill's Scholars' list.

Subject

• Bibel
• To 70
• Jews > History > To 586 B.C
• Jews > History > Historiography. > To 586 B.C
• Historiography
• Jews
• Jews > Historiography
• Quellenforschung
• Biblische Archäologie
• Joden
• Oudheid
• Palestine > History > To 70 A.D
• Palestine > History > Historiography. > To 70 A.D
• Middle East > Palestine
• Israel Altertum

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [452]-482) and indexes.

Contents

• Historical-Critical Research and Extrabilical Sources -- The Documentary Hypothesis -- Synthesis of Biblical Tradition and History of the Ancient Near East -- The Rise of Biblical Archaeology -- Social Anthropology and the History of Palestine -- Historical Polarities -- The Extrabiblical Sources -- Amplifications of Alt's Settlement Hypothesis -- Historicity and the Deconstruction of Biblical Historiography -- The Conservative Movement of Biblical Archaeology -- Early Alternatives to Settlement and Conquest Theories -- The Systematic Critique of the Comparative Method -- The Historicity of the Period of the Judges -- The Search for a New Paradigm for the History of Israel -- The United Monarchy and the Origin of Israel -- The Synthesis of Syro-Palestinian Archaeology -- Ideology and Biblical Historiography -- New Departures towards in Independent History of Israel -- An Anthropological Revision of Alt's Settlement Hypothesis -- Agriculture in the Central Hills -- Sociology and the Rise of the Monarchy -- Archaeology and an Independent History of Israel -- The Origins of the Population and Settlements of the West Semites of Greater Palestine -- Origin of the Semites in the "Green Sahara" -- The Early Bronze Age and the Development of a Mediterranean Economy -- Early Bronze IV-Middle Bronze I Transition and Desendentarization -- Middle Bronze II and Early State Development -- The Late Bronze Period: Economic Stress and Regional Collapse -- The Late Bronze-Iron Age Transition.
• The Collapse of Late Bronze Civilization in the Western Mediterranean -- The Central Hills of Ephraim and Manasseh -- The Galilee and Carmel Hills -- The Lowland Valleys -- The Coastal Plain -- The Shephelah and the Northern Negev -- Benjamin and Judah -- The Transjordan -- Israel and Ethnicity in Palestine -- Palestine's Diversity -- Israelites and Canaanites -- The Mediterranean Economy of Greater Palestine -- Population Coherence and Proto-Ethnicity -- The Destruction of Israel and Judah: Imperial Policies of Population Transportation -- Israel's Tradition: The Formation of Ethnicity -- The Literary Nature and Historicity of the Tradition -- Biblical Chronology -- Historiography -- Questions of Context and Reference -- Conclusions: An Independent History of Israel -- The Separate Origins of "Israel" and "Judah" -- "Israel" as a National Entity -- The Intellectual Matrix of Biblical Tradition.

ISBN

• 9004119434
• 9789004119437

LCCN

00712663

OCLC

• ocm45576677
• 45576677
• SCSB-1204864

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library