Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel
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Ancient Israel
ancient Israelite culture
biblical Israel
biblical literature
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comparative religion
cross-cultural study
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Hebrew bible
historical tradition
history of religion
Judah
Judaism
northern kingdom
political history of Israel
Samaria
social history of Israel
southern kingdom
symbol systems
western civilization
worldviews
Product details
- ISBN 9780470656778
- Weight: 1012g
- Dimensions: 178 x 252mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jan 2016
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Companion to Ancient Israel offers an innovative overview of ancient Israelite culture and history, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields. Distinguished scholars provide original contributions that explore the tradition in all its complexity, multiplicity and diversity.
- A methodologically sophisticated overview of ancient Israelite culture that provides insights into political and social history, culture, and methodology
- Explores what we can say about the cultures and history of the people of Israel and Judah, but also investigates how we know what we know
- Presents fresh insights, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields
- Delves into ‘religion as lived,’ an approach that asks about the everyday lives of ordinary people and the material cultures that they construct and experience
- Each essay is an original contribution to the subject
Susan Niditch is Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. Her research and teaching interests include the study of ancient Israelite literature from the perspectives of the comparative and interdisciplinary fields of folklore and oral studies; biblical ethics with special interests in war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and study of the rich symbolic media of biblical ritual texts. Recent publications include Judges: A Commentary (2008)and My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man: Hair and Identity in Ancient Israel (2008). Her current project deals with personal religion and late biblical literature.
