Life on the Land: The Subsistence Struggles of Early Israel
Most scholars agree that the Israelites first appeared in Palestine around 1200 B.C.E. The debate about how they came into possession of the land-whether by conquest, peaceful settlement, or revolution-has often diverted attention from the no-less-important issue of what their day-to-day lives were...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Scholars Press
1987
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The Biblical archaeologist
Year: 1987, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 178-191 |
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| Summary: | Most scholars agree that the Israelites first appeared in Palestine around 1200 B.C.E. The debate about how they came into possession of the land-whether by conquest, peaceful settlement, or revolution-has often diverted attention from the no-less-important issue of what their day-to-day lives were like. How did they grow enough food to survive? How did their communities organize to facilitate this effort? Only by answering such questions can we understand the impressive growth that took place in this period, a growth that contributed to the establishment of the monarchy around 1000 B.C.E. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210060 |