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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Early Israel</title>
    <subTitle>anthropological and historical studies on the Israelite Society before the monarchy</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Lemche, Niels Peter</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Cryer, Frederick H.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Leiden</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Brill</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1985</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">9999</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">und</languageTerm>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>xv, 496 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The Revolution hypothesis : Its formulation and presuppositions -- Revolution as Alternative : The Hebrew conquest of Palestine / G.E. Mendenhall -- Liberated Israel / N.K. Gottwald -- The Reception -- Immigration or Conquest : Immigration of Israelite semi-nomads into Palestine / A. Alt and M. Noah -- The Israelite conquest of Palestine / W.F. Albright -- Excurus: The Study of Israelite history from J. Wellhausen to A. Alt -- Israel in the Period of the Judges : Social structure in the period of the Judges / C.H.J. de Geus. The Presuppositions of the Revolution Hypothesis : Normads : N.K. Gottwald's description of pastoral nomadism -- A Test of Gottwald's description of pastoral nomadism -- The Popular understanding of nomadism and its influence of the scholarly discussion -- Nomadic ways of life: examples of normadic societies : Al-Murrah -- Basseri -- Bahtiyari -- Yoruk -- The Bedouin of the Negev -- Nomadic ways of life II : Pastoral nomads -- From nomadic to sedentary life -- Excursus: The Desert as the place of origin of the semites -- Nomads in the second millenium BCE.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Niels Peter Lemche; translated by Frederick H. Cryer</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Bible. Old Testament.Historiography.Jews</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BS411 .V452 197-</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">97890040785369004078533</identifier>
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