This highly original study locates the question of scribes and
scribal schools in monarchic Judah in a socio-archaeological
context. It departs from earlier studies by assigning priority to
interpreting archaeological data within a broad interdisciplinary
framework before trying to assess biblical and epigraphic sources.
The book provides an analysis of data on settlement, public works,
and luxury items in order to produce an archaeologically based
picture of the development of state level administrative systems in
Judah. The study questions the consensus that the Judahite monarchy
became a state at some point in the tenth century BCE. The evidence
for the increase in population, building, production,
centralization and specialization in the eighth century suggests
that Judah did not function as a state before the eighth century
BCE. This incisive study challenges the assumption of widespread
literacy and the traditional picture of the development of the
Judahite monarchy. This volume is a reprint of the 1991 edition
with a new preface by Keith W. Whitelam setting the work in the
context of recent debates on the history of ancient Israel.
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