The making of Israel
By: by C.L. Crouch
Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum -- volume 162; Supplements to Vetus Testamentum -- v. 162.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9789004274679; 9789004335974; 9789004274693
Subjects: Fornlämningar; Ethnology; Bible; Jews; Biblical Sociology; Antiquities; Ethnology in the Bible; Historia; Deuteronomium; Judarna; Bibeln; Ethnische Identität; Criticism, interpretation; Identity; History
Other titles: Cultural diversity in the Southern Levant and the formation of ethnic identity in Deuteronomy
Description: "In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exilic and post-exilic periods as well as scholarship which limits pre-exilic identity concerns to Josianic nationalism. The argument analyses the archaeological material from the southern Levant during Iron Age II, then draws on anthropological research to argue for an ethnic response to the economic, political and cultural change of this period. The volume concludes with an investigation into identity issues in Deuteronomy, highlighting centralisation and exclusive Yahwism as part of the deuteronomic formulation of Israelite ethnic identity."--Publisher description.
Notes: Cover title: The making of Israel : cultural diversity in the Southern Levant and the formation of ethnic identity in Deuteronomy.

In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exilic and post-exilic periods as well as scholarship which limits pre-exilic identity concerns to Josianic nationalism. The argument analyses the archaeological material from the southern Levant during Iron Age II, then draws on anthropological research to argue for an ethnic response to the economic, political and cultural change of this period. The volume concludes with an investigation into identity issues in Deuteronomy, highlighting centralisation and exclusive Yahwism as part of the deuteronomic formulation of Israelite ethnic identity--Supplied by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-266) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The history and archaeology of the southern Levant during the long seventh century; title: Identity formation as an anthropological phenomenon; title: Deuteronomy as identity formation project.