Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E.
Title | Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E. PDF eBook |
Author | Nadav Na'aman |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2005-06-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1575065681 |
Throughout the past three decades, Nadav Na'aman has repeatedly proved that he is one of the most careful historians of ancient Canaan and Israel. With broad expertise, he has brought together archaeology, text, and the inscriptional material from all of the ancient Near East to bear on the history of ancient Israel and the land of Canaan during the second and first millenniums B.C.E. Many of his studies have been published as journal articles or notes and yet, together, they constitute one of the most important bodies of literature on the subject in recent years, particularly because of the careful attention to methodology that Na'aman always has brought to his work. Collected here are 23 essays on the Hurrians, the Egyptians and their presence in the Levant during the second millennium B.C.E., Canaanite city-states, the Amarna Letters, and the neighbors of Canaan in the north, such as Alalakh and Damascus. The essays range over such topics as scribes and language, archaeology, cultural influences, and the interrelations of the great powers during this period. The volume includes indexes of ancient personal names, place-names, and biblical references.
Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E.
Title | Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E. PDF eBook |
Author | Nadav Na'aman |
Publisher | Eisenbrauns |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1575061139 |
Throughout the past three decades, Nadav Na'aman has repeatedly proved that he is one of the most careful historians of ancient Canaan and Israel. With broad expertise, he has brought together archaeology, text, and the inscriptional material from all of the ancient Near East to bear on the history of ancient Israel and the land of Canaan during the second and first millenniums B.C.E. Many of his studies have been published as journal articles or notes and yet, together, they constitute one of the most important bodies of literature on the subject in recent years, particularly because of the careful attention to methodology that Na'aman always has brought to his work. Collected here are 23 essays on the Hurrians, the Egyptians and their presence in the Levant during the second millennium B.C.E., Canaanite city-states, the Amarna Letters, and the neighbors of Canaan in the north, such as Alalakh and Damascus. The essays range over such topics as scribes and language, archaeology, cultural influences, and the interrelations of the great powers during this period. The volume includes indexes of ancient personal names, place-names, and biblical references.
The Dawn of Israel
Title | The Dawn of Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Lester L. Grabbe |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2022-11-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 056766323X |
In this companion volume to his bestselling Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? Lester L. Grabbe provides the background history of the main ancient Near Eastern peoples and empires: Babylonia, Assyria, Urartu, Hittites, Amorites, Egyptians. Grabbe's focus is on Palestine/Canaan and covers the early second millennium, including the Middle Bronze Age and the Second Intermediate Period and Hyksos rule of Egypt. Grabbe also addresses the question of a 'patriarchal period'. The main focus of the book is on the second half of the second millennium: Late Bronze and early Iron Age, the Egyptian New Kingdom, the Amarna letters, the Sea Peoples, the question of 'the exodus', the early settlements in the hill country of Palestine, and the first mention of Israel in the Merenptah inscription. Archaeology and the contribution of the social sciences both feature heavily, as does inscriptional and iconographic material. As such this volume provides a fascinating portrayal of ancient Israel and this definitive work by one of the world's leading biblical historians will be of interest to all students and scholars of biblical history.
Ancient Israel's History and Historiography
Title | Ancient Israel's History and Historiography PDF eBook |
Author | Nadav Naʼaman |
Publisher | Eisenbrauns |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781575061146 |
Throughout the past three decades, Nadav Na'aman has repeatedly proved that he is one of the most careful historians of ancient Canaan and Israel. With broad expertise, he has brought together archaeology, text, and the inscriptional material from all of the ancient Near East to bear on the history of ancient Israel and the land of Canaan during the second and first millenniums B.C.E. Many of his studies have been published as journal articles or notes and yet, together, they constitute one of the most important bodies of literature on the subject in recent years, particularly because of the careful attention to methodology that Na'aman always has brought to his work. This final volume in the 3-volume set of Na'aman's collected essays contains 29 essays. Among the topics addressed are: the sources available to Israel's historians late in the first millennium B.C.E.; the reality behind the narratives relating to the history of the United Monarchy; the effect of the author's own time on the composition of the histories of Saul, David, and Solomon; and the contributions of archaeology to the study of the tenth century B.C.E. In the course of covering these themes, Na'aman touches on topics such as history and historiography, textual and literary problems, historical geography, society, administration, cult, and religion.
A Study of the Alphabetic Inscriptional Evidence from Canaan During the Second Millennium B.C.E.
Title | A Study of the Alphabetic Inscriptional Evidence from Canaan During the Second Millennium B.C.E. PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Sobb |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Inscriptions, Canaanite |
ISBN |
Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past
Title | Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past PDF eBook |
Author | William G. Dever |
Publisher | Eisenbrauns |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1575060817 |
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, this collection of erudite essays concentrates on the archaeology of ancient Israel, Canaan, and neighboring nations.
The Canaanites and Their Land
Title | The Canaanites and Their Land PDF eBook |
Author | Niels Peter Lemche |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1991-03-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567451119 |
It is an interesting consequence of the new reconstructions of the early history of Israel that the Israelites must originally have been Canaanites. Nevertheless, an outspoken hatred against Canaanites permeates the Old Testament. Lemche presents a new way of explaining the anti-Canaanite sentiments of the Old Testament historians, while at the same time disclosing some of the aims and ideas which governed Old Testament history writing.