{"product_id":"9789042936553-a-history-of-the-kingdom-of-israel","title":"A History of the Kingdom of Israel","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e      The framework of this history of the Kingdom of Israel is based on       information provided by epigraphic sources. They show that the religion       and the ethnic identity of Israel connect traditions of semi-nomadic       tribes of the Cisjordanian highland with conceptions and practices of       pastoralists living in Transjordan, Midian, Negeb, and Sinai. They are       known as Shasu in Egyptian texts, which provide the earliest written       sources. The book is divided in six chapters. The first one deals with       the proto-history of Israel in the second millennium B.C., starting with       the mention of the Joseph-El and Simeon tribes in the Egyptian       Execration texts of the 19th-18th centuries B.C. Jacob-El, Reuben, and       Israel appear somewhat later, as well as the Shasu of the Yahwe-El area       in Northern Sinai. The figure of Moses is related to this region and       dates presumably from the second half of the 12th century B.C., when       starts the period of the Judges. Graeco-Aegean Philistines settled in       Canaan in the late 12th century were a serious menace to the       confederation of Israelite tribes whose elders decided \u003ci\u003eca.\u003c\/i\u003e 980       B.C. to adopt a royal government system. The first king was Saul,       followed by his son Ishbaal. The unsettled period of David’s and       Solomon’s reigns (\u003ci\u003eca.\u003c\/i\u003e 960-927 B.C.) still belongs to the       transition period from tribal confederacy to monarchy, continued by wars       between Israel and Judah and by internal troubles. This is examined in       chapter II. Chapter III deals with the dynasty of Omri, which ruled from       \u003ci\u003eca.\u003c\/i\u003e 882 to 749 B.C., a period documented also by Moabite,       Neo-Assyrian, and Aramaic inscriptions which show that Jehu belonged to       an Omride side-branch and that Jehoram and Ahaziah were killed by       Aramaeans at the battle of Ramoth Gilead (841 B.C.), not by Jehu or his       men. The rule of the Omrides was followed by a restless period and by       Assyrian invasions ending with the annexation of the country to the       Assyrian Empire and deportations of some of its elite, as presented in       chapter IV. Since monotheism goes to the hearth of Israelite       self-understanding, chapter V examines the religion of Israel,       characterized by the cult of El, whose identity was specified by the       full name Yahwe-El. A certain continuity of the Israelite political       entity appears in the Persian period with Samarian governors, often       members of the Sanballat lineage, as proposed in chapter VI.    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55171243770230,"sku":"9789042936553","price":128.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_30660716.jpg?v=1737420260","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9789042936553-a-history-of-the-kingdom-of-israel","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}