From Nomadism to Monarchy
Subtitle: archaeological and historical aspects of early Israel
By: edited by Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman.
Contributors: Finkelstein, Israel.; Naʼaman, Nadav.
Publisher: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi; Israel Exploration Society; Biblical Archaeology Society
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Jerusalem; Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Jews -- History -- To 1200 B.C.; Bronze age -- Palestine.; Iron age -- Palestine.; Palestine -- Antiquities.
Other titles: Mi-naṿadut li-melukhah.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"This is an extended and updated version of the Hebrew book [Mi-naṿadut li-melukhah] (published in Jerusalem in 1990) ... All the articles were revised and updated, and two papers are published in this volume for the first time"--P. 14.
Table of contents: value: Upper Galilee in the Late Bronze-Iron I transition / Rafael Frankel; value: Iron I in Lower Galilee and the margins of the Jezreel Valley / Zvi Gal; value: "To the land of the Perizzites and the Giants": on the Israelite settlement in the hill country of Manasseh / Adam Zertal; value: Jerusalem and its vicinity in Iron Age I / Amihai Mazar; value: "All the hill country of Judah": from a settlement fringe to a prosperous monarchy / Avi Ofer; value: The Beer-Sheba Valley: from nomadism to monarchy / Ze'ev Herzog; value: The emergence of Israel: a phase in the cyclic history of Canaan in the third and second millenia BCE / Israel Finkelstein; value: Socio-political transformations in the central hill country in the Late Bronze-Iron I transition / Shlomo Bunimovitz; value: Theoretical speculations on the transition from nomadism to monarchy / Juval Portugali; value: The "Conquest of Canaan" in the Book of Joshua and in history; value: Nadav Na'aman; value: Egyptians, Canaanites, and Philistines in the period of the emergence of Israel / Itamar Singer; value: Subsistence economy in Iron Age I / Baruch Rosen.; value: The cult-stands from Taanach: aspects of the iconographic tradition of Early Iron Age cult objects in Palestine / Pirhiya Beck.