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The military history of ancient Israel

Title: The military history of ancient Israel / Richard A. Gabriel ; foreword by Mordechai Gichon.
Author: Gabriel, Richard A.
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

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Description

xix, 334 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Summary

"The goal was not to produce merely a description and analysis of Israelite battles in chronological order, but to attempt to discern the military history of ancient Israel as a continuous narrative from the exodus through to the breakup of the imperial state following Solomon's death. The idea was to search the biblical texts for all references to military matters and see if sense could be made of them from a purely military perspective, all others for the moment being disregarded ... [The author has confined his] analysis to the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and I and II Samuel, texts that encompass the time of the Israelite descent into Egypt through to the death of Solomon. It is only after Solomon that our information concerning Israelite military history can begin to be corroborated from other sources outside the biblical text. The analysis presented herein, then, is confined to the earliest sources of Israelite military history"--Preface.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Military history.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-314) and index.

Contents

The Land of Israel -- Armies of the Bible -- The Exodus -- The Campaigns of Joshua -- Wars of the Judges -- Saul's Wars -- David and the Israelite Empire -- Solomon.

ISBN

0275977986
9780275977986

LCCN

2003053022

OCLC

ocm52301547
52301547
SCSB-1314352

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library