Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanite
Ancient Israel did not emerge within a vacuum but rather came to exist alongside various peoples, including Canaanites, Egyptians, and Philistines. Indeed, Israel’s very proximity to these groups has made it difficult—until now—to distinguish the archaeological traces of early Israel and other contemporary groups. Through an analysis of the results from recent excavations in light of relevant historical and later biblical texts, this book proposes that it is possible to identify these peoples and trace culturally or ethnically defined boundaries in the archaeological record. Features of late second-millennium B.C.E. culture are critically examined in their historical and biblical contexts in order to define the complex social boundaries of the early Iron Age and reconstruct the diverse material world of these four peoples. Of particular value to scholars, archaeologists, and historians, this volume will also be a standard reference and resource for students and other readers interested in the emergence of early Israel.
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Contents
Peoples and Ethnicity in the Biblical World
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An Ethnic Mosaic
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during the Thirteenth Century B C E and the Crisis
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A Mixed Multitude
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Canaan during the Thirteenth Century B C
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Urban Colonists of the Early Iron Age
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Empire and Imperialism in the Late
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Identifying the Egyptians Canaanites Philistines
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Bibliography
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Common terms and phrases
Aegean Aegean-style Anatolia ancient Israel appearance archaeological evidence Ashdod assemblages BASOR Beth-shean Beth-shean Level biblical bowl Bunimovitz burials Canaan Canaanite Canaanite Pottery Form central hill country ceramic city-states Cyprus Deir el-Balah Dever discussion Dothan Early Iron Age early Israel eastern Mediterranean Edited Egypt Egyptian emergence of Israel ethnic ethnogenesis excavated Finkelstein 1988 Gezer Giloh Gitin groups Hazor Hebrew highland History Hittite indigenous Iron Age Iron I period Israelite Jerusalem Karageorghis Khirbet Killebrew 1999a kraters Lachish Late Bronze Age Late Cypriot Levant material culture Mazar Medinet Habu Megiddo Middle Bronze Age Miqne-Ekron Mycenaean Na)aman nomadic Oren origins Pages palace Philistines pithoi political pottery Ramesses Ramesses III regarding region second millennium settlement patterns social boundaries storage jars Strata Stratum Stratum VII structures Studies suggests survey Tell temple texts textual theory Transjordan Tufnell twelfth century B.C.E. Type Ugarit University Press Valley vessels wares Yadin Zertal