Israel's ethnogenesis
Subtitle: settlement, interaction, expansion and resistance
By: Avraham Faust.
Series: Approaches to anthropological archaeology
Publisher: Equinox Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; Oakville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Antiquities.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Palestine.; Jews -- History -- 1200-953 B.C.; Ethnology -- Palestine.; Ethnicity -- Palestine.; Jews -- Identity -- History -- To 1500.; Anthropology -- Palestine.; Iron age.; Palestine -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Archaeology and ethnicity; title: Israelite ethnicity : state of research; title: Israelite markers and behavior; title: Meat consumption; title: Decorated pottery; title: Imported pottery; title: Pottery forms and repertoire; title: The four-room house; title: Circumcision and ethnicity; title: Hierarchy and equality : the roots of the Israelite egalitarian ethos; title: Settlement patterns in the Iron Age I-Iron Age II transition; title: Ethnicity and statehood in ancient Israel; title: The Philistines in the Iron Age; title: Totemism to ethnicity : the Philistines and Israel's self-identification; title: Merenptah's Israel : Israel in the late 13th century BCE; title: Israel's emergence : the beginnings; title: Origins reconsidered; title: Pots and peoples revisited : Israelites, Philistines, and Canaanites; title: Transjordan revisited; title: Summary and conclusions; title: Postscript.