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The Wiley Blackwell ­Companion to Ancient Israel­
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
By Susan Niditch (Edited by)

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United States, 22 January 2016

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


Susan Niditch is Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. Her research and teaching interests include the study of ancient Israelite literature from the perspectives of the comparative and interdisciplinary fields of folklore and oral studies; biblical ethics with special interests in war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and study of the rich symbolic media of biblical ritual texts. Recent publications include Judges: A Commentary (2008)and My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man: Hair and Identity in Ancient Israel (2008). Her current project deals with personal religion and late biblical literature.


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

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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


Susan Niditch is Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. Her research and teaching interests include the study of ancient Israelite literature from the perspectives of the comparative and interdisciplinary fields of folklore and oral studies; biblical ethics with special interests in war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and study of the rich symbolic media of biblical ritual texts. Recent publications include Judges: A Commentary (2008)and My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man: Hair and Identity in Ancient Israel (2008). Her current project deals with personal religion and late biblical literature.


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

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9780470656778
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Table of 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

About the Author

Susan Niditch is Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. Her research and teaching interests include the study of ancient Israelite literature from the perspectives of the comparative and interdisciplinary fields of folklore and oral studies; biblical ethics with special interests in war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and study of the rich symbolic media of biblical ritual texts. Recent publications include Judges: A Commentary (2008)and My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man: Hair and Identity in Ancient Israel (2008). Her current project deals with personal religion and late biblical literature.

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"I would, however, recommend this book to university libraries catering for courses in ancient history, historical theology, archaeology or Middle Eastern studies, as a balanced and scholarly guide to the current state of knowledge."
—Martin Guha, Reference Reviews, Volume 30, Number 7, 2016

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