The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel
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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
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<p>Acknowledgments xv</p>
<p>Editor s Introduction 1</p>
<p>Part I Methodology: Questions, Concepts, Approaches, and Tools 9</p>
<p>A Contextualizing Israelite Culture</p>
<p>1 Archaeology:What It Can Teach Us 13<br />Elizabeth Bloch–Smith</p>
<p>2 Israel in Its Neighboring Context 28<br />Song–Mi Suzie Park</p>
<p>3 Ancient Egypt and Israel: History, Culture, and the Biblical Text 47<br />John R. Huddlestun</p>
<p>4 Text and Context in Biblical Studies: A Brief History of a Troubled Relationship 67<br />Steven Weitzman</p>
<p>B Hebrew Bible and Tracking Israelite History and Culture</p>
<p>5 Folklore and Israelite Tradition: Appreciation and Application 87<br />Susan Niditch</p>
<p>6 The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: Sources, Compositional Layers, and Other Revisions 103<br />David M. Carr</p>
<p>7 Linguistics and the Dating of Biblical Literature 118<br />Ohad Cohen</p>
<p>8 Epigraphy:Writing Culture in the Iron Age Levant 131<br />Christopher A. Rollston</p>
<p>Part II Political History 151</p>
<p>A Origins</p>
<p>9 The Emergence of Israel and Theories of Ethnogenesis 155<br />Avraham Faust</p>
<p>B Monarchic Period</p>
<p>10 The Early Monarchy and the Stories of Saul, David, and Solomon 177<br />Brad E. Kelle</p>
<p>11 The Divided Monarchy 197<br />J. J.M. Roberts</p>
<p>C Postmonarchic Period: In the Land and Diaspora</p>
<p>12 (Re)Defining Israel : The Legacy of the Neo–Babylonian and Persian Periods 215<br />Charles E. Carter</p>
<p>13 The Hellenistic Period 241<br />Matthew J. Goff</p>
<p>Part III Themes in Israelite Culture 257</p>
<p>A God and Gods</p>
<p>14 The Gods of Israel in Comparative Ancient Near Eastern Context 261<br />Neal Walls</p>
<p>15 Monotheism and the Redefinition of Divinity in Ancient Israel 278<br />Mark S. Smith</p>
<p>B Mediation: Gods and Humans</p>
<p>16 Priests and Ritual 297<br />S. A. Geller</p>
<p>17 Prophecy 317<br />Robert R.Wilson</p>
<p>18 Apocalypticism 333<br />John J. Collins</p>
<p>C Social Interaction</p>
<p>19 Religion at Home: The Materiality of Practice 347<br />Francesca Stavrakopoulou</p>
<p>20 Education and the Transmission of Tradition 366<br />Raymond F. Person, Jr</p>
<p>21 Kinship, Community, and Society 379<br />T. M. Lemos</p>
<p>22 Law and Legal Literature 396<br />Bernard M. Levinson and Tina M. Sherman</p>
<p>23 Women s Lives 415<br />Carol Meyers</p>
<p>24 Economy and Society in Iron Age Israel and Judah: An Archaeological Perspective 433<br />J. David Schloen</p>
<p>D Artistic Expression</p>
<p>25 Verbal Art and Literary Sensibilities in Ancient Near Eastern Context 457<br />Edward L. Greenstein</p>
<p>26 The Flowering of Literature in the Persian Period: The Writings/Ketuvim 476<br />Tamara Cohn Eskenazi</p>
<p>27 Hellenistic Period Literature in the Land of Israel 493<br />Benjamin G.Wright III</p>
<p>28 Art and Iconography: Representing Yahwistic Divinity 510<br />Theodore J. Lewis</p>
<p>Index 535</p>