How Israel became a people / [manuscript] /

Hawkins, Ralph K.

How Israel became a people / [manuscript] / Ralph K. Hawkins. - Nashville : Abingdon press, c2013. - xvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-279) and index.

Why must we reconstruct the history of the Israelite settlement? -- Classical and recent models of the Israelite settlement -- The date of the Exodus-conquest Part I: biblical evidence -- The date of the Exodus-conquest Part II: extrabiblical evidence -- Major cities of the conquest -- Reconstructing the Israelite settlement archaeologically -- The material culture and ethnicity of the highland settlers -- Izbet Sartah: a prototypical Israelite settlement site -- Early Israelite sanctuaries and the birth of a nation -- A culture-scale model of the early Israelite settlement.

9781426754876 (pbk)

2012038538


Bible.--Exodus--Antiquities.


Judaism--History--To 70 A.D.
Jews--Origin.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Palestine.
Exodus, The.
Jews--History--To 1200 B.C.
Jews--History--Sources.

BM165 / .H38 2013

221.9/5