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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Bible's first kings
    sub title: uncovering the story of Saul, David, and Solomon
  name:
    name part: Faust, Avraham
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Farber, Zev
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 455 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book argues that the Jewish kingdom of the Bible was real, as were its first three kings, Saul, David and Solomon, even if the biblical stories distort their actions to glorify them. Combining fresh archaeological evidence with astute readings of key texts, the authors offer a compelling reconstruction of this fascinating ancient polity.
  table of contents: Part I: The united monarchy in the Bible and contemporary scholarship. Israel's united monarchy: the biblical story -- Untangling the threads of the biblical account with literary critical scholarship -- Deconstructing (and reconstructing) the united monarchy as historical: passing the baton to archaeology -- Part II: The archaeology of the tenth century BCE. Abandoned rural villages and the beginning of highlands fortifications -- Ceramic repertoire and social change in Philistia and Israel -- Resettling the Shephelah -- What happened to Philistia in the tenth century? -- Building in the swamps of the Sharon Plain -- The Beersheba Valley, the settlement of the Negev highlands, and the copper mines of Edom -- Edom, Moab, Ammon, and the Gilead: a brief overview of the Transjordan -- The cities and villages of the northern valleys -- The Galilee and the Phoenicians -- Part III: A new paradigm. The (re)appearance of Solomon: the archaeology of Israel's highland polity -- David's empire? The highland polity in historical and anthropological perspective -- From tribe to empire to state: synthesis of archaeological, anthropological, and biblical data -- Israel's highland polity: an attempt at history.
  note: Avraham Faust, Bar Ilan University, Zev I. Farber, Shalom Hartman Institute.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-445) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: King of Israel
      name part: Saul
  subject:
    name:
      name part: King of Israel
      name part: David
  subject:
    name:
      name part: King of Israel
      name part: Solomon
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
    topic: Evidences, authority, etc
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Kings and rulers
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: History
    temporal: 1200-953 B.C
  subject:
    topic: Kings and rulers
    topic: Biblical teaching
  classification: BS579.K5 F38 2025
  classification: 222/.406
  identifier: 9781009526333
  identifier: 1009526332
  identifier: 9781009526340
  identifier: 1009526340
  identifier: 9781009526364
  identifier: 2024022089
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240911
    record change date: 20260518154718.0
    record identifier: in00005676109