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The formation of the state in ancient Israel : a survey of models and theories / Frank S. Frick

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Social world of biblical antiquity series ;  ; 219Publication details: Decatur, GA, : Almond, 1985Description: 219 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780907459514090745951X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS1199.P6  .F89 1985
Contents:
I. The cultural evolutionary hypothesis and the origins of the Israelite state: Anthropology and history -- Overview of the cultural evolutionary hypothesis -- State formation studies and the problem of comparability -- II. Early Israel as a segmentary society -- III. Early Israel as a chiefdom -- What is a chiefdom? -- The archaeology of chiefdoms -- IV. Agriculture and social change in early Israel -- A. The agricultural environment of the Palestinian Hill Country -- Meteorological variables in the central highlands -- Soil fertility in the highlands -- B. Agricultural technology and social change in early Israel -- Agricultural terracing in the highlands -- Agricultural productivity, demography and settlement patterns -- Tel Masos, agriculture, and the archaeology of chiefdoms -- Technology and agriculture -- V. The path to statehood: A synthesis.
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I. The cultural evolutionary hypothesis and the origins of the Israelite state: Anthropology and history -- Overview of the cultural evolutionary hypothesis -- State formation studies and the problem of comparability -- II. Early Israel as a segmentary society -- III. Early Israel as a chiefdom -- What is a chiefdom? -- The archaeology of chiefdoms -- IV. Agriculture and social change in early Israel -- A. The agricultural environment of the Palestinian Hill Country -- Meteorological variables in the central highlands -- Soil fertility in the highlands -- B. Agricultural technology and social change in early Israel -- Agricultural terracing in the highlands -- Agricultural productivity, demography and settlement patterns -- Tel Masos, agriculture, and the archaeology of chiefdoms -- Technology and agriculture -- V. The path to statehood: A synthesis.

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