Migration and Colonialism in Late Second Millennium Bce Levant and Its Environs: The Making of a New World

ISBN-13: 9781138677036 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 278 str.

Pekka M. a. Pitkanen

Opis

This book examines migration and colonialism in the ancient Near East in the late second millennium BCE, with a focus on the Levant. It explores how the area was shaped by these movements of people, especially in forming the new Iron Age societies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The societal contexts of the ancient Near East and analysing migration, colonialism and violence  3. The imperial context of the second half of the second millennium BC  4. The Sea Peoples and ancient Philistia  5. Ancient Israel  6. Ancient Arameans  7. Other migrations and societies  8. Migration and colonialism, ancient and modern

O autorze

Pekka Pitkänen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of Central Sanctuary and Centralization of Worship in Ancient Israel (2003), Joshua (2010) and A Commentary on Numbers: Narrative, Ritual and Colonialism (2017). His current research interests include ancient Near Eastern history in the context of world history, the biblical books of Genesis-Joshua with their reception and ritual studies and other sociological and anthropological appoaches to the study of the ancient world.