The Religions of Ancient Israel
Ziony Zevit(Editor)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Book
Hardback
640 pages
978-0-304-70539-9 (ISBN)
Description
This investigation into the religion of ancient Israel draws on textual readings, archaeological and historical data and epigraphy to determine what may be known about the Israelite religions during the Iron Age (1200-586 BCE). The evidence is synthesized within the structure of an Israelite worldview and ethos involving kin, tribes, land, traditional ways and places of worship and a national deity. Professor Zevit has originated this interpretative matrix through insights, ideas and models developed in the academic study of religion and history within the context of the humanities. He contends that much of the Psalter was composed in praise of deities other than Yahweh. Through the book, the author encourages dialogue and co-operative study between ancient historians and archaeologists, but particularly between Iron Age archaeologists and biblical scholars.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
150 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-304-70539-9 (9780304705399)
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Person
Editor
Professor of Biblical and Northwest Semitic Languages, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, USA
Content
Surveying paths - an essay about humanities, religion, history, and Israelite religion; of cult places and of Israelites; architecture parlante - Israelite cult places; tangible belief - the material and textual aspects of cultic artefacts; writ on rock - script on stone; Israelite religions in Israelian and Judahite historiography and historiosophy; Israelite mantic religions in literary and social, and historical contexts; visions of a foreign land - Israelite relgioins through enemy eyes; the names of Israelite gods; Israelite religions = a parallactic synthesis.