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The social history of ancient Israel : an introduction / Rainer Kessler ; translated by Linda M. Maloney. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, (c)2008.Description: ix, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780800662820
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS112.K42.S635 2008
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Contents:
Social history as discipline and as method -- The social history of events and "the long term" -- A description of social history -- History of scholarship -- Methods for studying the social history of Israel -- Environment as living space -- The geographical environment -- The historical environment -- Material remains -- Archaeology : artifacts and interpretation -- Epigraphic material from Israel and its environment -- The texts of the Hebrew Bible -- The historical reliability of the biblical accounts -- Fiction and milieu -- Intentional and unintentional tradition -- Norm and reality -- Dating biblical texts -- In search of analogies -- Societies in Israel's environment -- Ethnology : from empirical studies to theory -- Sociological categories -- The epochs of Israel's social history -- Israel's origins as a kinship-based society -- The beginnings of something called Israel -- Structures of kinship-based societies -- Israel and Judah : from early statehood to full development -- From initial statehood to the middle of the eighth century -- The beginnings of a state -- Society and state under monarchical rule -- Profiles of monarchy in Israel and Judah -- The formation of an ancient class society -- The political background from the eighth to the sixth century -- Israel and Judah as an ancient class society -- Exiles and their consequences -- From Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus -- Judah under Babylonian rule -- Israel in exile -- Provincial society under Persia -- From Cyrus to Alexander -- Society and state in Judah and Samaria in the Persian period -- Temple and Torah -- Life in the diaspora -- Yehud, Samaria, Israel : a provincial society in the Persian period -- The Jewish ethnos in the Hellenistic age -- From Alexander the Great to the Hasmoneans -- Changes in society and state -- Hellenistic governance structures -- The many forms of "Israel" -- Conclusion -- Trans-epochal features of Israel's social history -- Israel's identity -- Prospect : the theological relevance of social history.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction DS112.K45513 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001328562

"Translated from Rainer Kessler, Sozialgeschichte des alten Israel: Eine Einfuhrung (c2006 by Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt)"--T.p. verso.

Translated from the German.

The social history method -- Social history as discipline and as method -- The social history of events and "the long term" -- A description of social history -- History of scholarship -- Methods for studying the social history of Israel -- Environment as living space -- The geographical environment -- The historical environment -- Material remains -- Archaeology : artifacts and interpretation -- Epigraphic material from Israel and its environment -- The texts of the Hebrew Bible -- The historical reliability of the biblical accounts -- Fiction and milieu -- Intentional and unintentional tradition -- Norm and reality -- Dating biblical texts -- In search of analogies -- Societies in Israel's environment -- Ethnology : from empirical studies to theory -- Sociological categories -- The epochs of Israel's social history -- Israel's origins as a kinship-based society -- The beginnings of something called Israel -- Structures of kinship-based societies -- Israel and Judah : from early statehood to full development -- From initial statehood to the middle of the eighth century -- The beginnings of a state -- Society and state under monarchical rule -- Profiles of monarchy in Israel and Judah -- The formation of an ancient class society -- The political background from the eighth to the sixth century -- Israel and Judah as an ancient class society -- Exiles and their consequences -- From Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus -- Judah under Babylonian rule -- Israel in exile -- Provincial society under Persia -- From Cyrus to Alexander -- Society and state in Judah and Samaria in the Persian period -- Temple and Torah -- Life in the diaspora -- Yehud, Samaria, Israel : a provincial society in the Persian period -- The Jewish ethnos in the Hellenistic age -- From Alexander the Great to the Hasmoneans -- Changes in society and state -- Hellenistic governance structures -- The many forms of "Israel" -- Conclusion -- Trans-epochal features of Israel's social history -- Israel's identity -- Prospect : the theological relevance of social history.

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