The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781845535292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 192 str.

Emanuel Pfoh

Opis

Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East, this study aims at providing new understandings on the emergence of Israel in ancient Palestine and the socio-political dynamics at work in the Levant during antiquity.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 History, Historiography and History-Writing; Chapter 2 Approaches to the Social World of the Hebrew Bible; Chapter 3 The Archaeology of Ancient Palestine and Statehood; Chapter 4 An Historical-Anthropological Approach; Chapter 5; Chapter 6 Concluding Reflections;

O autorze

Emanuel Pfoh is a PhD candidate at the University of Buenos Aires. His main interest and field of research is the historical anthropology of Syria-Palestine in Antiquity.