Beyond the texts : an archaeological portrait of ancient Israel and Judah /

William G. Dever offers a welcome perspective on ancient Israel and Judah that prioritizes the archaeological remains to render history as it was--not as the biblical writers argue it should have been. Drawing from the most recent archaeological data as interpreted from a nontheological point of vie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dever, William G. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Atlanta : SBL Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Bible. > Old Testament > Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) > Israel. Jews > History > 1200-953 B.C. Jews > History > 953-586 B.C. Israel > Antiquities. Palestine > Antiquities. Palestine > History > To 70 A.D.

Table of Contents:

Chapter I: "History from Things": on history and history-writing. Excursus I: a critique of the "European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History," 1998-2010
Chapter II. Prelude: the physical and cultural setting at the end of the Bronze Age
Chapter III. The emergence of Israel in the light of history. Excursus I: Rainey's Transjordanian Shasu as "Earliest Israel Excursis II: Finkelstein's "Sedentarized Pastoralists"
Chapter IV. The rise of Territorial States: the 10th Cent Excursus I. C14 dates of Megiddo and Tel Rehov
Chapter V. The consolidation of the State. The Iron II B Period (9th-8th cent.)
Chapter VI. Iron IIC: Judah in the 7th Century.