Studies on the Royal Administration in Ancient Israel in the Light of Epigraphic Sources
Publisher: Archaeological Center Publications
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9789659024094
Table of contents: title: Definition and review of the sources; title: The king, his senior ministers and their functions; title: Other dignitaries and the "king's servants"; title: The na'ar (servant, attendant, youth) and his position according to epigraphic sources; title: Other officials, ranks, and others--the sŏfeṭ and the sŏṭēr; title: Questions of administrative organiztion arising from several epigraphic finds; title: Excurses. Persons in the royal administration in Judah and their connection with the finding of the "Book of the Law" (Deuteronomy); title: New epigraphic evidence about the fall of Judah in 586 B.C.; title: Careers of persons in royal service from epigraphic evidence; title: The status of Nob, of the priestly city, in the light of epigraphic data; title: Mentioning of the rb khn ("chief priest") in the book of Hosea; title: The sw'r - keeper - boy; title: The rb'lf - the headman of the thousand