The Social History of Ancient Israel

An Introduction

By: Linda M. Maloney (Editor), Rainer Kessler (Translator)

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Histories of ancient Israel have usually focused attention on major figures in powerful positions: kings, prophets, and patriarchs. Kessler asks about the larger social patterns that shaped the everyday life of ordinary people, from the emergence of Israel in the hills of Canaan, to the Jewish populations of Greek city-states in the Hellenistic age.

The introductory section includes discussion of social history as discipline and as method, event history and the "long haul," the representation of social history, and the history of research. Two other sections explore the methods of the social history of Israel and the epochs of Israel's social history, including discussions of environment as living space, Israel's emergence as a kinship-based society, exile and its consequences, and more. Includes a time line, glossary of terms, maps and illustrations.

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Publisher's Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
The Social History Method	p. 1
Social History as Discipline and as Method	p. 1
The History of Events and "the Long Term"	p. 2
A Description of Social History	p. 4
History of Scholarship	p. 5
Methods for Studying the Social History of Israel
Environment as Living Space	p. 15
The Geographical Environment	p. 15
The Historical Environment	p. 17
Material Remains	p. 19
Archaeology: Artifacts and Interpretation	p. 20
Epigraphic Material from Israel and Its Environment	p. 22
The Texts of the Hebrew Bible	p. 24
The Historical Reliability of the Biblical Accounts	p. 25
Fiction and Milieu	p. 26
Intentional and Unintentional Tradition	p. 27
Norm and Reality	p. 28
Dating Biblical Texts	p. 30
In Search of Analogies	p. 33
Societies in Israel's Environment	p. 34
Ethnology: From Empirical Studies to Theory	p. 34
Sociological Categories	p. 35
The Epochs of Israel's Social History
Israel's Origins as a Kinship-Based Society	p. 40
The Beginnings of Something Called Israel	p. 41
Structures of Kinship-Based Societies	p. 51
Israel and Judah: From Early Statehood to Full Development	p. 63
From Initial Statehood to the Middle of the Eighth Century	p. 64
The Beginnings of a State	p. 72
Society and State under Monarchical Rule	p. 78
Profiles of Monarchy in Israel and Judah	p. 91
The Formation of an Ancient Class Society	p. 103
The Political Background from the Eighth to the Sixth Century	p. 104
Israel and Judah as an Ancient Class Society	p. 108
Exiles and Their Consequences	p. 118
From Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus	p. 119
Judah under Babylonian Rule	p. 120
Israel in Exile	p. 123
Provincial Society under Persia	p. 128
From Cyrus to Alexander	p. 129
Society and State in Judah and Samaria in the Persian Period	p. 133
Temple and Torah	p. 143
Life in the Diaspora	p. 151
Yehud, Samaria, Israel: A Provincial Society in the Persian Period	p. 153
The Jewish Ethnos in the Hellenistic Age	p. 158
From Alexander the Great to the Hasmoneans	p. 159
Changes in Society and State	p. 161
Hellenistic Governance Structures	p. 165
The Many Forms of "Israel"	p. 170
Conclusion	p. 176
Trans-epochal Features of Israel's Social History	p. 176
Israel's Identity	p. 177
Prospect: The Theological Relevance of Social History	p. 178
Abbreviations	p. 180
Notes	p. 185
Glossary	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 241
Index of selected topics	p. 263
Index of selected biblical passages	p. 266
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