TY - BOOK AU - Lemche,Niels Peter TI - Ancient Israel: a new history of Israel T2 - T&T Clark Cornerstones SN - 9780567662798 AV - DS117 U1 - 933 23 KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - History of Biblical events KW - fast KW - Religion KW - Biblical Studies KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General KW - Jews KW - History & Culture KW - Biblical studies & exegesis KW - bicssc KW - History KW - To 70 A.D KW - Bible. Old Testament -- History of Biblical events KW - Israel -- History KW - Jews -- History -- To 586 B.C KW - Palestine KW - Middle East KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes index; Academic; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Table of Chronology""; ""Introduction to Ancient Israel: New Edition""; ""Dating biblical historiography""; ""Identifying the hot spots of recent historical analysis""; ""Chapter 1 Geography, Demography, Economy""; ""1�Introduction""; ""2�The geography of Palestine""; ""3�Demography and economy""; ""4�Concluding remarks""; ""Chapter 2 Text and History""; ""1�The Old Testament as history""; ""2�The Old Testament regarded as a text""; ""3�The Old Testament as a historical source""; ""4�Methods of reading the texts""""5�Other sources""; ""Chapter 3 The Pre-monarchical Period""; ""1�Palestine between 3000 and 1500""; ""2�The Late Bronze Age""; ""3�Israelite tribal society""; ""4�The pre-national period in earlier academic discussion""; ""5�Concluding remarks""; ""Chapter 4 The Period of the Monarchy""; ""1�The Deuteronomistic History""; ""2�The political history of the monarchy""; ""3�Israelite society during the monarchy""; ""4�History as intellectual experience: The development of a national identity""; ""Chapter 5 The Exile and the Post-exilic Period""""1�The sources""; ""2�The Babylonian exile""; ""3�The post-exilic period""; ""Chapter 6 Israelite Religion""; ""1�Presuppositions for writing a history of Israelite religion""; ""2�West Semitic religion in the second half of the second millennium bce""; ""3�Monotheistic Yahwism""; ""4�Pre-exilic Israelite religion""; ""5�The transformation of pre-exilic religion""; ""6�The origins of Yahwism""; ""7�Concluding remarks""; ""A Guide to Relevant Literature""; ""Bibliographical notes""; ""General works""; ""Chapter 1�Geography, demography, economy""""Chapter 2�Text and history""; ""Chapter 3�Pre-monarchical period""; ""Chapter 4�The period of the Monarchy""; ""Chapter 5�The exile and Post-exilic periods""; ""Chapter 6�Israelite religion""; ""Introduction to Ancient Israel Bibliography: Supplement for New Edition""; ""General introduction""; ""Centralist position""; ""Conservative position""; ""The minimalists""; ""The series changing perspectives""; ""Archaeology and the Bible""; ""Jerusalem""; ""The Yahwist and historiography in the Pentateuch""; ""Deuteronomism and the Deuteronomistic history""""The Babylonian exile, the Persian and early Hellenistic periods""; ""The Bible and the Greeks""; ""Samarians/Samaritans""; ""Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls""; ""Index of Biblical References""; ""Index of Authors""; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) ER -