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 9781119139997
  • Weight: 885g
  • Dimensions: 170 x 241mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Aug 2025
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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 interdisciplinary perspectives of the fields of folklore and oral studies; biblical ethics with special attention to war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and the material religion of biblical worlds. Her most recent book is The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods.