Community, Identity, and Ideology Social Science Approaches to the Hebrew Bible

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Anthropologists, Sociologists, and the Biblical World ............37 Classic studies ...................43 Sacrifice: Preliminary survey ..........65 Ancient judaism ......95 From an Ethnic Group to a Religious Community ........95 The abominations of Leviticus ........119 The abominable pig..........152 Domain Assumption and socieal Models in the Study of Pre-monarchic Israel ...........170 Sacrifices and Offerings in Ancient Israel : An Introduction .........201 The impact of Modern and social Science Assumption on the Reconstruction of Israelite history..........230 Idealism and materialism in weber and gottwals .....258 On the use of System theory, Macro Theories and evolutionistic thinking in Modern Old Testament .............273 2. Case Studies- Israel and its Institutions : Social Science Perspectives Charismatic Leadership in the Book of Judges .........293 Chiefs in Israel ......311 The emergence of Israel : Social Transformation and state Formation following the decline in late bronze age trade ................335 The emergence of the Monarchy in Israel ..........377 Prophecy and ecstasy ....404 prophecy : The problem of Cross- Cultural Comparison ............448 Life on the land : The subsistence struggles of Early Israel ........471 Procreation, Production and Protection ..........489 The place of Women in the Israelite Cultus ...........515 The politics of Ezra: Sociological Indications of Postexilic Judaean Society ............537