The social history of ancient Israel : an introduction
Rainer Kessler ; translated by Linda M. Maloney Minneapolis,MN : Fortress Press, c2008 ix, 273 p. ; 24 cm Book
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The social history method
Social history as discipline and as method
The social history of events and "the long term"
A description of social history
History of scholarship
Methods for studying the social history of Israel
Environment as living space
The geographical environment
The historical environment
Material remains
Archaeology : artifacts and interpretation
Epigraphic material from Israel and its environment
The texts of the Hebrew Bible
The historical reliability of the biblical accounts
Fiction and milieu
Intentional and unintentional tradition
Norm and reality
Dating biblical texts
In search of analogies
Societies in Israel's environment
Ethnology : from empirical studies to theory
Sociological categories
The epochs of Israel's social history
Israel's origins as a kinship-based society
The beginnings of som
ill., maps
"Translated from Rainer Kessler, Sozialgeschichte des alten Israel: Eine Einfuhrung (c2006 by Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt)"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-262) and indexes