The Emergence of Israel in the Twelfth and Eleventh Centuries B.C.E.

includes index and biblioraphy

I. The biblical portrait of the era ....1 Representation ....1 Sojourn in the eastern transjordan (Num 21-36) ......2 Moses farewwll speech (deut 1-34) ......3 Taking the western transjordan (josh 1-24) ....4 The period of the judges (judg 1-21) ....6 Questions ....8 Sojourn in the eastern transjordan (num 21-36) .....12 The supplements (num 25-31 and 33-36) ....13 The balaam oracles (num 22-24) ....16 Taking the eastern transjordan (num 21 and 32) ....18 Repetition of the trip from horeb to the jordan (deut 1-3) ......23 Taking the western transjordan (josh 1-24) .....25 Conquest of the land (Josh 1-24) .....26 Allocation of the land (josh 13-19) ....31 Joshua`s farewell speech (Josh 24) ......33 Judges and deliverers (judg 1-21) ....35 History of the deliverers (Judg 3-16) ....37 The appendices (Judg 17-21) .....51 The prologue (Judg 1:2) .....54 The tribal sayings ....59 Syntheses ....61 II. Historical reconstruction of the epoch ....67 Chronological framework ....67 Canaan at the end of the late bronze age ......70 The collapse of the canaanite city-states ....72 The canaanites .....76 Israel and the merneptah stele ....80 The resettlement of the land in the early iron age (1200-1000) ......82 Settlement regions .....83 Settlement form ....85 Economic system and social structure .....103 Material culture ....109 Alphabetic script ....115 The land acquisition ....117 Land acquisition theories ......120 The hapiru ....126 Nomads in the second half of the second millennium ....130 The new settlement form and the origin of its inhabitants ......135 The life of the tribes in the cultivated land .....139 The system of the tribes ....139 Yahweh war ....145 The tribes habitations ....147 The religion of yahweh .....157 The name of yahweh ....159 Local deities .....166 The god of the ancestors ....170 Cultic artifacts ....173 The ark ....173 The teraphim ....175 The oracle by casting lots ....177 Cultic sites ....179 The philistines .....182 Name and origin ....183 Settlement history ....186 Material culture .....188 Architecture ....188 Cult .....189 Burial ....191 Pottery ....192 Metallurgy ....195 History and significance ...196 Neighboring peoples ....197 Phoenicians ....198 Arameans ....199 Ammonites ....200 Moabites ......202 Edomites .....203 Midianites ....205 Amalekites .......207 III The literature of the era ....209 Hymns of praise .....210 Riddles ....216 Fables ....220 The role of oral tradition .....224 On the concept of the legend .....235 IV The theological significance of the epoch ...241