The Origins of the Ancient Israelite States

Download or read book The Origins of the Ancient Israelite States written by Volkmar Fritz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers from an international colloquium held in Jerusalem, and attended by historians and archaeologists from Israel, Europe and the United States, on the theme of the formation of the early Israelite state. The ten papers presented here have been grouped into three topics: method (Thompson, Halpern), society (SchSfer-Lichtenberger, Lemche, Hopkins) and sources (Edelman, Auld, Na'aman, Fritz, Dietrich). These papers represent the latest research on this highly controversial period in ancient history, which has enormous significance for biblical traditions about the 'united monarchy'.