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In Search for Aram and Israel - Politics, Culture, and Identity (Hardcover)
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In Search for Aram and Israel - Politics, Culture, and Identity (Hardcover)
Series: Orientalische Religionen in der Antike, 20
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Throughout its history, the Kingdom of Israel had strong
connections with the Aramaean world. Constantly changing relations,
from rivalry and military conflicts to alliances and military
cooperation, affected the history of the whole Levant and left
their marks on both Biblical and extra-Biblical sources. New
studies demonstrate that Israelite state formation was
contemporaneous with the formation of the Aramaean polities
(11th-9th centuries BCE). Consequently, the Jordan Valley (and
especially its northern parts and its extension to the valley of
Lebanon) was a constantly changing border zone between different
Iron Age polities. In light of that, there is a need to study the
history of Ancient Israel not only from the "Canaanite" point of
view but also within the political and cultural context of the
Aramaean world. This volume brings together experts working in
different fields to address the relations and interactions between
Aram and Israel during the Early Iron Age (12th to 8th centuries
BCE) through three main aspects: the first aspect, relates to the
archaeology and the material culture of Aram and Israel, with a
special focus on the Jordan valley as a political and cultural
border zone. The material culture of the region is examined in its
spatial as well as chronological context in order to discuss
cultural traits as against political affiliation. The second aspect
relates to the history of the Aramaean kingdoms highlighting the
formation of territorial kingdoms in the Levant and the history of
Israel in its Aramaean context. The third aspect relates to the
question of historical memory especially as it was preserved in the
biblical traditions. The place of the Aramaeans in the Biblical
literature is discussed as a mean to clarify the construction of
Israelite and Aramaic identity in a fluid cultural region.
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