Publications
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New Studies on Jerusalem
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Jerusalem & Eretz -Israel
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The Callenge of Gender
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Revolutionaries Despite Themselves
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In the British Mandate pre-state Jewish community in Palestine, a unique population sector with a complex ideology developed – the religious-Zionist community. This community, which advocated the preservation of Jewish tradition while embracing new ideas and concepts, was undecided as to what its role in the rebuilding of the Land of Israel should be. It was especially concerned as to how it would preserve the values of the past while at the same time becoming an integral part of the new Jewish society in Eretz Israel. It sought to guarantee the continued existence of Jewish tradition while establishing new gender relations, one of the underpinnings of the new society.
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Merorim- Bitter Herbs
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The Druze in the Middle East
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Israel’s Ethnogenesis:Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance
SummarySeries: Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology, edited by Professor Thomas E. Levy, UC San Diego
Subject: Archaeology
Readership: upper level undergraduates and postgraduates
Pub date: April 2007 244 x169 mm, 288pp, 17 black and white line drawings
ISBN: HB 978 1 904768 98 2 £75/$115
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The emergence of Israel in Canaan is perhaps the most debated topic in biblical/Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and related fields. Accordingly, it has received a great deal of attention in recent years, both in scholarly literature and in popular publications.
Generally speaking, however, the archaeology of ancient Israel is wedged in a paradoxical situation. Despite the large existing database of archaeological finds (from thousands of excavations conducted over an extremely limited area) scholars in this (sub)discipline typically do not engage in "theoretical" (anthropological) discussions, thus exposing a large gap between it and other branches of archaeology, in this respect. Numerous ‘archaeologically oriented' studies of Israelite ethnicity are still conducted largely in the spirit of the ‘culture history school', and are absent of thorough reference to the work of more recent critics, which, at best, make a selected appearance in these analyses.
Israel's Ethnogenesis provides an "anthropologically-oriented" perspective to the discussion of Israel's ethnogenesis. The book traces Israel's emergence in Canaan, and the complex processes of ethnic negotiations and re-negotiations that accompanied it. This monograph incorporates detailed archaeological data and relevant textual sources, within an anthropological framework. Moreover, it contributes to the ‘archaeology of ethnicity', a field which currently attracts significant attention of archaeologists and anthropologists all over the world. Making use of an unparalleled archaeological database from ancient Israel, this volume has much to offer to the ongoing debate over the nature of ethnicity in general, and to the understudied question of how ethnic groups evolve (ethnogenesis), in particular.
Table of contents
Table of contents:
Part One: Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Archaeology and Ethnicity
3. Israelite Ethnicity: State of ResearchPart Two: An Archaeological Examination of Israelite Ethnicity
4. Israelite Markers and Behavior
5. Meat Consumption
6. Decorated Pottery
7. Imported Pottery
8. Pottery Forms and Repertoire
9. The Four Room House
10. Circumcision and Ethnicity
11. Hierarchy and Equality: The Roots of the Israelite Egalitarian EthosPart Three: Israel's Identity and the Philistines
12. Settlement Patterns in Iron Age I - Iron Age II Transition
13. Ethnicity and Statehood in Ancient Israel
14. The Philistines in the Iron Age I
15. Totemism to Ethnicity: The Philistines and Israel's Self-IdentificationPart Four: Merenptah's Israel: The Beginnings
16. Merenptah's Israel: Israel in the Late 13th Century BCE
17. Israel's Emergence: The Beginnings
18. Origins ReconsideredPart Five: Aspects of Distribution
19. Pots and Peoples Revisited: Israelites, Philistines and Canaanites
20. Transjordan Revisited
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The Four Species Anthology
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