TY - BOOK AU - Hayes,John H. AU - Miller,J.Maxwell AU - AU - TI - Israelite and Judaean history T2 - The Old Testament library SN - 9780664212919 AV - BS1197 PY - 1977/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Westminster Press KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - History of Biblical events KW - Jews KW - History KW - To 70 A.D KW - Historiography KW - Juifs - Histoire - Jusqu'a 70 N1 - 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); Maps; 1 (pages xxv-xxxi); 4.es; 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; 2 ER -