The History of Ancient Palestine from the Palaeolithic Period to Alexander's Conquest (JSOT SUPPLEMENT SERIES 146)

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Contents Foreword, by Diana Edelman and Niels Peter Lemche Preface Editor’s Preface List of Maps List of Illustrations Abbreviations INTRODUCTION History and Historiography Periodization Chapter 1 THE LAND The Name Geography Climate Routes Natural Resources Chapter 2 PREHISTORIC TIME (by Gary O. Rollefson) The Paleolithic Period The Lower Paleolithic (c. 1500,000-c. 100,000 Years Ago) The Middle Paleolithic (c. 100,000—40,000 BCE). The Upper Paleolithic (c. 40-45,000-18,000 BCE) The Epipaleolithic Period The Neolithic Period The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) (c. 8500-7600 BCE) The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) (c. 7600-6000 BCE) The Early PPNB (7600-7200 BCE) The Middle PPNB (7200-6500 BCE) The Late PPNB (6500-6000 BCE) The Final PPNB and PPNC (6000-?5000 BCE) The Pottery Neolithic (5500-c. 4500 BCE) The Chalcolithic Period Chapter 3 THE EARLY BRONZE AGE The Early Bronze Age I-III Early Bronze IV Amurru Semites Chapter 4 THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE Excursus: Abram/Abraham Hyksos Middle Bronze Culture The Hurrians Transjordan Chapter 5 THE LATE BRONZE AGE The Amarna Period Hori’s Description of Palestine Chapter 6 THE TWELFTH CENTURY BCE Sea Peoples The Tjekker The Philistines Chapter 7 THE INCREASE IN SETTLEMENTS DURING THE 13th-12th CENTURIES BCE Chapter 8 'JUDGES' Chapter 9 TRANSJORDAN IN THE 12TH-10TH CENTURIES BCE The Arameans Ammon Moab Edom Chapter 10 THE RISE OF THE TERRITORIAL STATE Samuel Saul Chapter 11 PALESTINE UNDER DAVID AND SOLOMON David David’s ‘Empire’ Solomon’s Rule MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Chapter 12 PALESTINE AFTER SOLOMON Chapter 13 THE OMRIDES In the Shadow of Assyria Chapter 14 THE ARAMEAN THREAT Chapter 15 TRANSJORDAN IN THE EIGHTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES Chapter 16 PALESTINE IN THE ASSYRIAN ORBIT After 732 BCE After 716 BCE 701 BCE Seventh Century Chapter 17 CLIMAX AND FALL Chapter 18 NEW MASTERS Politics and Reform The Babylonian Rule Chapter 19 THE END OF THE VASSAL STATES Chapter 20 PALESTINE AFTER THE BABYLONIAN CAMPAIGNS Chapter 21 THE PERSIAN PERIOD Persia and the Near East Palestine and its People in the Persian Period The Reconstruction of Judah The Rebuilding Program in Yehud Nehemiah Ezra The Last Decades of Persian Rule INDEXES Index of Biblical References Index of Authors Index of Personal Names Index of Deity Names Index of Geographical and Gentilic Terms General index