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Prophets and Markets - The Political Economy of Ancient Israel (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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Prophets and Markets - The Political Economy of Ancient Israel (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
Series: Population and Community Biology Series
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5 by predations of the sea peoples. However, the weakening of
Mycenean seapower, the destruction of the Hittite kingdom, and
finally, the limitation on Philistine strength resulting from the
alliance between David and the king of Tyre in the eleventh
century, combined to open up "for the Phoenicians, in the first
quarter of the first millennium B. C. E. vast overseas trading
areas" (Oded 1979a, p. 228). By the end of the eleventh century,
pottery from Cyprus, after a long absence could once again be found
in Israelite-occupied sites (Albright 1960, p. 47). The expansion
of the sea trade in the Mediterranean in which, judging by the song
of Deborah (Judg. 5), the northern tribes of Asher and Dan (?) (see
figure 1-2) would have parti cipated, was accompanied by the
inauguration of camel caravans trans porting the goods of southern
Arabia to and through Israel (see Bulliet 1975, especially p. 36).
Military victories over the Philistines and Syrians, receipts of
tribute, and the collection of tolls from the control of trade
routes together with the general revival of trade all contributed
to Israel's growing wealth. Indeed, the David-Solomon period (most
of the tenth century) is often portrayed as the peak of Israelite
economic development. In fact there is precious little extra
biblical evidence supporting this portrayal. For example, in spite
of the reported activity of David and Solomon's scribes, only one
example of 6 "Hebrew" writing from this period, the Gezer Calendar,
has been found."
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