The forgotten kingdom
Subtitle: the archaeology and history of Northern Israel
By: by Israel Finkelstein
Series: Ancient Near East monographs -- Number 5; Ancient Near East monographs -- v. 5.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781589839106; 9781589839120; 9781589839113
Subjects: Fornlämningar; History; Ausgrabung; Utgrävningar; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; Biblische Archäologie
Description: "Although Israel was dominant for most of the time the kingdoms of Israel and Judah coexisted, it has remained in Judah's shadow in both the Hebrew Bible and consequently in the attention of modern scholarship. This book presents the first comprehensive history of the northern kingdom and description of the archaeology of northern Israel from the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1350 B.C.E.) until the kingdom's fall in 720 B.C.E. and beyond. It tells the story of the northern kingdom primarily in its formative phases. The narrative is based in archaeology and makes use of the most updated field research, with the addition of what is known from ancient Near Eastern and biblical texts. Finkelstein's thirty years of fieldwork in sites related to the northern kingdom have paved the way for a new understanding of the history and archaeology of ancient Israel."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-190) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why a book on the Northern Kingdom?; title: Setting the stage: the Shechem polity of the late bronze age and the final days of the Canaanite city-states in the late Iron I; title: The first north Israelite territorial entity: the Gibeon-Gibeah polity and the house of Saul; title: The early days of the Northern Kingdom: the Tirzah polity; title: The Northern Kingdom under the Omride Dynasty; title: The final century of the Northern Kingdom; title: Comments on the two 'Charter myths"; title: The end and beyond: a new meaning for "Israel"; title: Concluding remarks: long-term history versus the uniqueness of Israel.