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How Israel became a people /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hawkins, Ralph K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Abingdon Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Judaism > History > To 70 A.D.
Jews > Origin.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Palestine.
Bible. > Exodus > Antiquities.
Exodus, The.
Jews > History > To 1200 B.C.
Jews > History > Sources.
Table of Contents:
  • Why must we reconstruct the history of the Israelite settlement?
  • Classical and recent models of the Israelite settlement
  • The date of the Exodus-conquest Part I: biblical evidence
  • The date of the Exodus-conquest Part II: extrabiblical evidence
  • Major cities of the conquest
  • Reconstructing the Israelite settlement archaeologically
  • The material culture and ethnicity of the highland settlers
  • ʻIzbet Sartah: a prototypical Israelite settlement site
  • Early Israelite sanctuaries and the birth of a nation
  • A culture-scale model of the early Israelite settlement.