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The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy

By C. L. Crouch

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9004274677, 9789004274679
ISSN
0083-5889
Google Books ID
pU73AwAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2800975 bytes)
Series
Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 162
Pages
xii+279\293
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-12-27 18:04:54

Description

In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exilic and post-exilic periods as well as scholarship which limits pre-exilic identity concerns to Josianic nationalism. The argument analyses the archaeological material from the southern Levant during Iron Age II, then draws on anthropological research to argue for an ethnic response to the economic, political and cultural change of this period. The volume concludes with an investigation into identity issues in Deuteronomy, highlighting centralisation and exclusive Yahwism as part of the deuteronomic formulation of Israelite ethnic identity.

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