Israelite and Judaean history / edited by John H. Hayes and J. Maxwell Miller. [print]

I The History of the Study of Israelite and Judean History (John H. Hayes)

II The Patriarchal Tradition (William G. Denver and W. Malcolm Clark)

III The Joseph and Moses Narratives (Thomas L. Thompson and Dorothy Irvin)

IV The Israelite Occupation of Canaan (J. Maxwell Miller)

V The Period of the Judges and the Rise of the Monarchy (A.D.H. Mayes)

Virgin Islands The Davidic-Solomonic Kingdom (J. Alberto Soggin)

Virgin IslandsI The Separate States of Israel and Judah (Herbert Donner)

Virgin IslandsI Judah and the Exile (Bustenay Oded)

IX The Persian Period (Geo Widengren)

X The Hellenistic and Maccabaean Periods (Peter Schafer)

XI The Roman Era (A.R.C. Leaney and Jacob Neusner)

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The earliest treatments of Israelite and Judaean history -- The medieval period -- From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment -- The nineteenth century -- Current approaches.

Palestine in the second millennium BCE: the archaeological picture -- Palestine in the second millennium BCE and biblical backgrounds -- The Middle and Late Bronze Ages in Syria-Palestine -- The history of a specific problem--the biblical patriarchs in the light of archaeology -- Prolegomenon to a reconsideration of archaeology and patriarchal backgrounds -- Conclusion -- The biblical traditions - The problem of patriarchal history -- Some earlier views of the patriarchs -- The sources and their interpretation -- The date and setting of the patriarchal traditions.

Historical reconstructions of the narratives -- The dating of the sojourn and the exodus -- The Egyptian background of the narratives -- Semites in Egypt -- The Shasu and the Aramaean migration -- Hittite treaties and early Israelite covenant -- The "small historical creed" -- The Joseph-Moses traditions and pentateuchal criticism -- The documentary hypothesis -- The history of religion school -- Revisions of the documentary hypothesis and early historiography -- The "themes" of the pentateuch's "Grundlage" -- The pentateuch as narrative -- The Joseph and Moses stories as narrative in the light of ancient Near Eastern narrative -- The spurned seductress -- The interpreter of dreams -- The success of the unpromising -- The treasure in the sack -- The persecuted baby -- The bloody bridgeroom -- The inanimate animal -- The obedient water -- The plagues -- The traditional episode of sending the savior -- The narratives about the origin of Israel.

The biblical sources -- The account of the conquest in Numbers 13-Judges 1 -- Other biblical materials -- Egyptian sources -- Archaeological evidence -- Possible approaches to historical reconstruction -- Pan-Israelite exodus and invasion -- Independent migrations and settlement by separate tribal groups -- Gradual penetration in search of pasturage -- Forced entry: artifactual evidence and military feasibility -- The conquest as internal revolt -- The occupation of the land.

Sources -- Judges -- Samuel -- Approaches to the problems of historical reconstruction -- The theory of a twelve-tribe Israelite amphictyony -- Critique of the amphictyonic theory -- The period of the Judges -- The reign of Saul.

The biblical source material -- The narratives about the rise of David -- The ark narratives -- The narrative of the Davidic succession -- The Solomonic traditions -- The traditions in Chronicles -- The archaeological evidence -- The reign of David -- David's rise to power over Judah and Israel -- The Davidic empire -- Civil and military administration under David -- Political tensions within the Davidic kingdom -- Religious developments under David -- The reign of Solomon -- Solomon's accession to the throne -- The development of royal ideology -- Solomon and the Jerusalem temple -- Solomon and the state cult -- International affairs under Solomon -- Internal affairs under Solomon.

The collpase of the Davidic-Solomonic empire and the dissolution of the personal union between Israel and Judah -- Jeroboam I (927-907 BCE) -- Rehoboam (926-910 BCE) -- The kingdom of Judah from Rehoboam to Azariah/Uzziah -- The kingdom of Israel from Jeroboam I to Jeroboam II -- The dynasty of Omri (878-845 BCE) -- The dynasty of Jehu (845-747 BCE) -- The beginning of the Assyrian period of the history of Israel and Judah -- The Syro-Ephraimite war and the end of the kingdom of Israel.

General background and sources -- The general background -- The source material -- The kingdom of Judah during the reign of Hezekiah -- The cultic reform of Hezekiah -- The war against the Philistines -- Hezekiah's rebellion and Sennacherib's campaign against Judah -- The reigns of Manasseh and Amon -- Josiah and the Deuteronomic reformation -- The last days of Judah and the destruction of Jerusalem (609-586 BCE) -- Judah during the exilic period (586-538 BCE) -- Exile and diaspora -- Mesopotamia -- Egypt.

Literary sources and archaeological remains -- Biblical Jewish sources -- Non-biblical Jewish sources -- Non-Jewish sources -- Archaeological remains -- Problems in reconstructing Jewish history in the Persian period -- The chronological order of Ezra and Nehemiah -- The administrative relationship of Judah and Samaria -- The Samaritan schism and the construction of the Samaritan temple -- The identity of Ezra's law-book -- The Jewish community under the Persians -- The return and reconstruction of the temple -- From Zerubbabel to Nehemiah -- Nehemiah and the refortification of Jerusalem -- The Jewish colony at Elephantine -- The activity of Ezra -- Jerusalem and Samaria -- Summary.

Literary sources and archaeological evidence -- Some important problems of the period -- The coins of the Hasmonaean period -- The causes of the religious persecution -- Jason's rebellion and the Egyptian campaigns of Antiochus IV -- The chronology of I Maccabees 4:26-35 and II Maccabees 11:1-15 -- The beginning of the Hellenistic period in Palestine (331-301 BCE) -- Palestine under Ptolemaic rule (301-200 BCE) -- Palestine under Seleucid domination (200-135 BCE) -- Oniads and Tobiads -- The "Hellenistic reform" -- The Maccabaean rebllion -- The Hasmonaean dynasty -- John Hyrcanus I (135-34-104 BCE) -- Aristobulus I (104-103 BCE) -- Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 BCE) -- Salome Alexandra (76-67 BCE) -- Aristobulus II (67-63 BCE).

From Alexandra to Pompey (67-57 BCE) -- The revolt of Aristobulus and the rise of Herod (56-37 BCE) -- The reign of Herod (37-4 BCE) -- Herod: his family and court -- Herod as king of Judaea -- Herod and Rome -- Herod's immediate successors -- Judaea as a Roman Province (6-66 CE) -- Judaea under Roman governors (6-41 CE) -- The reign of Agrippa I (41-44 CE) -- Judaea under Roman procurators (44-66 CE) -- The first Jewish revolt (66-74 CE) -- Jdaism after the destruction of the temple -- Appendix: Chronology of the Israelite and Judaean kings.

The "Fertile Crescent", showing zone suitable for pastoralism (100-250 mm. annual rainfall) -- General physical features of Palestine -- Approximate settlement pattern of the Israelite tribes -- Syro-Palestine at the time of David and Solomon -- The Assyrian empire at its greatest expansion -- The Persian empire at its greatest expansion -- Approximate boundary of the province of Judah -- Palestine during the Hellenistic period, showing maximum extent of the Hasmonaean kingdom -- Palestine during the time of Herod and his successors.

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