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The Origins of Biblical Israel (Paperback)
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The Origins of Biblical Israel (Paperback)
Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 485
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The book starts from the problem defined by recent archaeological
discovery about the societies that formed the backbone of the
kingdoms of Israel and Judah, their origins and their relationship.
It has become clear that the biblical notion of a 12-tribe 'nation'
united by descent and religion does not correspond to these
findings. The challenge is not to argue endlessly about how far the
differing accounts can be reconciled, as a prolongation of an old
debate about biblical 'historicity', but to try and understand what
historical, social and cultural process led to the production of
the biblical portrait of an Israel of 12 tribes embracing two
kingdoms. Davies argues for the importance of the role of Bethel as
a royal sanctuary, then a central sanctuary of the Neo-Babylonian
and Persian province of Judah. In particular, the figure of Jacob
as the ancestor of 'Israel', associated with Bethel, became the
eponym of the biblical 'all Israel' and the name 'Israel' survived
as the name of a new society, even as Jerusalem was re-established
as the major, and subsequently the only, official Judaean
temple.
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