TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finkelstein, Israel
AU  - Finkelstein,Israel
TI  - The Forgotten Kingdom:  The Archaeology and History of Northern Israel
SN  - 9781589839106
U1  - B54 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Atlanta
PB  - Society of Biblical Literature
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Introduction: Why a book on the northern kingdom ......1  1. Historiography and historical memory .....1  2 Recent advances in archaeology .....6  3 The personal perspective ......10  1. Setting the stage: The shechem polity of the late bronze age and the final days of the canaanite city-states in the late iron 1 ......13  The late bronze age .....13  The shechem polity in the Amarna period .....16  The end of the late bronze age ......21  The iron age I  ......22  The highlands .....22  The lowlands .....27  2. The first north israelite territorial entity:  The gibeon/ Gibeath polity and the house of saul .....37  The gibeon-bethel plateau ......38  Sheshonq I and the highlands north of Jerusalem ....41  Excursus: The land of benjamin: North or south ? .....44  Shwshonq 1, the saulide territory, and archaeology ......47  Preservation of early memories in Samuel:   The case of shiloh ......49  The date and territorial extent of the saulide polity ......51  Dating saul and the saulides ......51  The territoty of the saulides ......52  Philistines or egyptians ......59  3 The early days of the northern kingdom: The tizrah polity .......63  Relative dates, absolute dates and historicity ......63  Note on material culture .....65  Tirzah ....66  The site, its excavation and its stratigraphy ....67  Excavation results ....69  Discussion .....72  The territory ruled by the tirzah polity ....74  Dan ....74  Ben-Hadad ....75  What does archaeology say ....76  Sheshonq I and the jezreel valley ......76  West and east ....77  Highlands-based expanding early territorial polity .....78  The rise of jeroboam I ....80  Tirzah and jerusalem .....82  4 The northern kingdom under the omride dynasty .....83  Omride architecture .....85  Samaria .....87  Jezreel ....94  Hazor .....96  Jahaz and ataroth in Moab ....97  Tell er-rumeith in the Gilead .....100  Other sites .....102  Summary: Characteristics of omride architecture ......103  The territory ruled by the omrides .....105  Dempgraphic composition of the omride kingdom ......109  Economic resources of the omrides ....112  Writing ......113  Cult .....115  5 The final century of the northern kingdom ......119  Hazael`s assaults on the northern kingdom ....119  Four late iron  II A destruction horizons in the north .......119  The textual evidence ......122  Hazael`s new order .....124  Dan and bethsaida ....127  Israel`s swan song ......129  Territotial expansion .....129  Economic prosperity ....131  Recorganization of cult ....138  Advance of writing and compilation of northern texts .....140  6 Comments on the two charter myths   Of the northern kingdom ......141  The reality behind the core of the Jacob cycle .....141  The origin and development of the exodus and wandering tradition .....145  Summary ....151  7 The end and beyond: A new meaning for israel .....153  Israelites in Judah after the fall of the northern kingdom .....154  The rise of the concept of biblical israel ......155  Concluding remarks: Long-term history versus the uniqueness of israel .....159  1 It`s all about timing .....159  2 Long-term history .....160  3 Israel and Judah ....162
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