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Israel

 


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Contents
People of Israel

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Pre-Israelite Canaan/Palestine/Syria

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The Bible as a Source

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Ethnogenesis

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Moses and Monotheism

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Conquest of the Land (1250-1000 BCE?)

  • Stele of Merneptah [At Internet Archive, from ANET]
    This Egyptian stele is the first mention of "Israel" in any historical sources.
  • Stele of Merneptah c. 1220 BCE [At Christian Answers][Image and Discussion] [Internet Archive version here]
  • Joshua 1-12 - aggressive account  [At Bible Gateway]
  • Judges 1-2 - peaceful account  [At Bible Gateway]
  • Wikipedia: Biblical Archeology
    The discipline known as Biblical archaeology sought to prove the text of the Bible was correct in terms of history. That is not how many current scholars see it. Quoted in the Wiki article: "This is what archaeologists have learned from their excavations in the Land of Israel: the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the 12 tribes of Israel. Perhaps even harder to swallow is that the united monarchy of David and Solomon, which is described by the Bible as a regional power, was at most a small tribal kingdom. And it will come as an unpleasant shock to many that the God of Israel, YHWH, had a female consort and that the early Israelite religion adopted monotheism only in the waning period of the monarchy and not at Mount Sinai." This is not to deny that some kernels of history might be contained the "history books" that cover from Genesis until the mid 8th cenury BCE, but its only from the Omrid dynasty on that sources other the Bible can be used to confirm events depicted there.
  • WEB PBS Nova: Archeology of the Hebrew Bible [Internet |Archive version here]

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The National Monarchy (c.1020-586 BCE)

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The Exile (587-538 BCE)

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The Prophets (750-550 BCE)

  • Amos (8th Cent. BCE): Book of Amos [At this Site]
    The first of the prophets to write.
  • Jeremiah (526-586 BCE), Jeremiah 7-8, 23, 31 .[At Bible Gateway]
    The notion of a "new covenant".
  • Second Isaiah (c.550 )[from Isaiah 40 on] [At Bible Gateway]

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Mythological Foundations

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Hellenistic Judaisms: Diasporas and States

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Hellenistic Judaism: Religious Development

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Rabbinic Judaism

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Gender and Judaism

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Modern Perspectives on Ancient Israel
  • 2ND Eliazear Segal: Abraham, Our Father and Theirs [At U Alberta] [Internet Archive version here]
  • 2ND Eliazear Segal: The Monks and the Mishnah [At U Alberta] [Internet Archive version here]
    On modern Buddhist monks studying Mishnah.
  • 2ND From Hebrew to...Hebrew, The Forward, 20 Dec 2011 [Internet Archive version here]
    Article in The Forward on the publication of a "translation" of the Hebrew Bible into Modern Hebrew. This has been quite a controversial publication effort.

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NOTES:

The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. The date of inception was 4/8/1998. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.


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