Israel's ethnogenesis : settlement, interaction, expansion and resistance

1. Verfasser: Faust, Avraham
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2006.
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Umfang/Format: xv, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Approaches to anthropological archaeology
Schlagworte:
Online Zugang: Table of contents
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Archaeology and ethnicity
  • Israelite ethnicity : state of research
  • Israelite markers and behavior
  • Meat consumption
  • Decorated pottery
  • Imported pottery
  • Pottery forms and repertoire
  • The four-room house
  • Circumcision and ethnicity
  • Hierarchy and equality : the roots of the Israelite egalitarian ethos
  • Settlement patterns in the Iron Age I-Iron Age II transition
  • Ethnicity and statehood in ancient Israel
  • The Philistines in the Iron Age I
  • Totemism to ethnicity : the Philistines and Israel's self-identification
  • Merenptah's Israel : Israel in the late thirteenth century BCE
  • Israel's emergence : the beginnings
  • Origins reconsidered
  • Pots and peoples revisited : Israelites, Philistines and Canaanites
  • Transjordan revisited
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Postscript.