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
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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
  • Translated from the German
  • Fortress Press
  • 0800662822 (alk. paper)
  • 9780800662820 (alk. paper)
  • text
  • volume
  • unmediated
  • https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/AKoC