In search for Aram and Israel
Subtitle: politics, culture, and identity
By: edited by Omer Sergi, Manfred Oeming, and Izaak J. de Hulster
Series: Orientalische Religionen in der Antike -- 20; Orientalische Religionen in der Antike -- 20.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9783161538032
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Arameans; Antiquities; Congresses; Jews; History
Notes: "Comprises papers presented at a colloquium held in Heidelberg, 1-4 September 2014"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Some historical and methodological considerations regarding the question of political, social and cultural interaction between Aram and Israel in the early Iron Age; title: I. Aram and Israel: political relations, political borders. Israel and Aram: reflections on their border ; The relations between Aram and Israel in the 9th and 8th centuries BCE: the textual evidence ; The Damascene subjugation of the Southern Levant as the gradual process (cs. 842-800 BCE); title: II. In search of 'Aramaean' material culture. The Aramaean involvement in the Southern Levant: case studies for identifying the archaeological evidence ; Culture, Identity and politics relating to Tel Reḥov in the 10th-9th centuries BCE (with an excursus on the identification of Tel Reḥov) ; Tall Zurā 'a in north-west Jordan between Aram and Israel ; Aram-Maacah? Aramaeans and Israelites on the border: excavations at Tell Abil el-Qameḥ (Abel-beth-maacah) in Northern Israel ; Enemy at the gates? The arcaeological visiblity of the Aramaeans at Dan ; Aram and Israel during the 10th-9th centuries BCE, or Iron Age IIA: the alphabet ; Material Aramaeisms? Sphragistic reflections on the Aram-Israel Border Zone through a case study on Hazor; title: III. Aram and Israel: the question of identity. Confrontation, emulation and ethno-genesis of the Aramaeans in Iron Age Syria ; Identity and multiculturality in the Northern Levant of the 9th-7th century BCE: with a case study on Tell Afis ; The power of language: language situation and language policy in Sma'al ; The Gilead between Aram and Israel: political borders, cultural interaction, and the question of Jacob and Israelite identity ; Family ties: constructed memories about Aram and the Aramaeans in the Old Testament ; Ahaz and the altar from Damascus (2 Kings 16:10-16): Literary, theological, and historical-political considerations ; "And the King of Aram was at war with Israel": history and theology in the Elisha Cycle 2 Kings 2-13.