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The Companion to Ancient Israel offers an innovative overview of ancient Israelite culture and history, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields. Distinguished scholars provide original contributions that explore the tradition in all its complexity, multiplicity and diversity.
A methodologically sophisticated overview of ancient Israelite culture that provides insights into political and social history, culture, and methodology
Explores what we can say about the cultures and history of the people of Israel and Judah, but also investigates how we know what we know
Presents fresh insights, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields
Delves into 'religion as lived,' an approach that asks about the everyday lives of ordinary people and the material cultures that they construct and experience
Each essay is an original contribution to the subject
Contents
Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv
Editor's Introduction 1
Part I Methodology: Questions, Concepts, Approaches, and Tools 9
A Contextualizing Israelite Culture
1 Archaeology:What It Can Teach Us 13
Elizabeth Bloch-Smith
2 Israel in Its Neighboring Context 28
Song-Mi Suzie Park
3 Ancient Egypt and Israel: History, Culture, and the Biblical Text 47
John R. Huddlestun
4 Text and Context in Biblical Studies: A Brief History of a Troubled Relationship 67
Steven Weitzman
B Hebrew Bible and Tracking Israelite History and Culture
5 Folklore and Israelite Tradition: Appreciation and Application 87
Susan Niditch
6 The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: Sources, Compositional Layers, and Other Revisions 103
David M. Carr
7 Linguistics and the Dating of Biblical Literature 118
Ohad Cohen
8 Epigraphy:Writing Culture in the Iron Age Levant 131
Christopher A. Rollston
Part II Political History 151
A Origins
9 The Emergence of Israel and Theories of Ethnogenesis 155
Avraham Faust
B Monarchic Period
10 The Early Monarchy and the Stories of Saul, David, and Solomon 177
Brad E. Kelle
11 The Divided Monarchy 197
J. J.M. Roberts
C Postmonarchic Period: In the Land and Diaspora
12 (Re)Defining "Israel": The Legacy of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 215
Charles E. Carter
13 The Hellenistic Period 241
Matthew J. Goff
Part III Themes in Israelite Culture 257
A God and Gods
14 The Gods of Israel in Comparative Ancient Near Eastern Context 261
Neal Walls
15 Monotheism and the Redefinition of Divinity in Ancient Israel 278
Mark S. Smith
B Mediation: Gods and Humans
16 Priests and Ritual 297
S. A. Geller
17 Prophecy 317
Robert R.Wilson
18 Apocalypticism 333
John J. Collins
C Social Interaction
19 Religion at Home: The Materiality of Practice 347
Francesca Stavrakopoulou
20 Education and the Transmission of Tradition 366
Raymond F. Person, Jr
21 Kinship, Community, and Society 379
T. M. Lemos
22 Law and Legal Literature 396
Bernard M. Levinson and Tina M. Sherman
23 Women's Lives 415
Carol Meyers
24 Economy and Society in Iron Age Israel and Judah: An Archaeological Perspective 433
J. David Schloen
D Artistic Expression
25 Verbal Art and Literary Sensibilities in Ancient Near Eastern Context 457
Edward L. Greenstein
26 The Flowering of Literature in the Persian Period: The Writings/Ketuvim 476
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
27 Hellenistic Period Literature in the Land of Israel 493
Benjamin G.Wright III
28 Art and Iconography: Representing Yahwistic Divinity 510
Theodore J. Lewis
Index 535
