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This book examines migration and colonialism in the ancient Near
East in the late second millennium BCE, with a focus on the Levant.
It explores how the area was shaped by these movements of people,
especially in forming the new Iron Age societies. The book utilises
recent sociological studies on group identity, violence, migration,
colonialism and settler colonialism in its reconstruction of
related social and political changes. Prime examples of migrations
that are addressed include those involving the Sea Peoples and
Philistines, ancient Israelites and ancient Arameans. The final
chapter sets the developments in the ancient Near East in the
context of recent world history from a typological perspective and
in terms of the legacy of the ancient world for Judaism and
Christianity. Altogether, the book contributes towards an enhanced
understanding of migration, colonialism and violence in human
history. In addition to academics, this book will be of particular
interest to students of this period in the Ancient Near East, as
well anyone working on migration and colonialism in the ancient
world. The book is also suitable to the general public interested
in world history.
This book provides a new reading of the biblical book of Numbers in
a commentary form. Mainstream readings have tended to see the book
as a haphazard junkyard of material that connects Genesis-Leviticus
with Deuteronomy (and Joshua), composed at a late stage in the
history of ancient Israel. By contrast, this book reads Numbers as
part of a wider work of Genesis-Joshua, a carefully crafted
programmatic settler colonial document for a new society in
Canaanite highlands in the late second millennium BCE that seeks to
replace pre-existing indigenous societies. In the context of the
tremendous influence that the biblical documents have had on the
world in the last 2,000-3,000 years, the book also offers pointers
towards reading these texts today. This volume is a fascinating
study of this text, and will be of interest not only to biblical
scholars, but to anyone with an interest in the history of the
ancient Levant, and colonisation and colonialism in the ancient
world more broadly.
This book provides a new reading of the biblical book of Numbers in
a commentary form. Mainstream readings have tended to see the book
as a haphazard junkyard of material that connects Genesis-Leviticus
with Deuteronomy (and Joshua), composed at a late stage in the
history of ancient Israel. By contrast, this book reads Numbers as
part of a wider work of Genesis-Joshua, a carefully crafted
programmatic settler colonial document for a new society in
Canaanite highlands in the late second millennium BCE that seeks to
replace pre-existing indigenous societies. In the context of the
tremendous influence that the biblical documents have had on the
world in the last 2,000-3,000 years, the book also offers pointers
towards reading these texts today. This volume is a fascinating
study of this text, and will be of interest not only to biblical
scholars, but to anyone with an interest in the history of the
ancient Levant, and colonisation and colonialism in the ancient
world more broadly.
The book of Joshua presents a number of interpretative problems. On
the basis of literary studies and archaeology, some have claimed
that the book is a product of a much later age than the one it
portrays and does not reflect actual events. Another important
issue is how it should be read as Christian Scripture, given that
it describes at least a partial annihilation of indigenous people
groups. Related to this today is the ongoing struggle over
essentially the same piece of land that is described in Joshua. To
address these and other issues, Pekka PitkAnen reads Joshua in its
Ancient Near Eastern context. He makes extensive comparisons with
relevant contemporary literature and includes an archaeological
survey of all places mentioned in the Masoretic text. He argues
that Joshua helps conclude the pentateuchal tradition and is best
understood as a conquest document originating from the Late
Bronze-Early Iron Age that helps define Israelite identity in
Yahwistic terms and promulgates Yahwism in Israel as the exclusive
religious ideology. In application, he engages with genocide
studies and reflects on theodicy and the use and abuse of power.
This book examines migration and colonialism in the ancient Near
East in the late second millennium BCE, with a focus on the Levant.
It explores how the area was shaped by these movements of people,
especially in forming the new Iron Age societies. The book utilises
recent sociological studies on group identity, violence, migration,
colonialism and settler colonialism in its reconstruction of
related social and political changes. Prime examples of migrations
that are addressed include those involving the Sea Peoples and
Philistines, ancient Israelites and ancient Arameans. The final
chapter sets the developments in the ancient Near East in the
context of recent world history from a typological perspective and
in terms of the legacy of the ancient world for Judaism and
Christianity. Altogether, the book contributes towards an enhanced
understanding of migration, colonialism and violence in human
history. In addition to academics, this book will be of particular
interest to students of this period in the Ancient Near East, as
well anyone working on migration and colonialism in the ancient
world. The book is also suitable to the general public interested
in world history.
This book provides the first major reinvestigation and
reinterpretation of the history of centralization of worship in
ancient Israel since de Wette and Wellhausen in the nineteenth
century. Old Testament scholarship has thus far relied on the
consensus that the book of Deuteronomy is the product of late
monarchic Judah (7th century BC). Pitkanen places the biblical
material in its archaeological and ancient Near Eastern context and
pays special attention to rhetorical analysis. The author suggests
that the book of Joshua, as well as its sources (such as
Deuteronomy) may have originated as early as before the disaster of
Aphek and the rejection of Shiloh.
This volume offers a reinterpretation of the history of religion
and ritual that developed in ancient Israel.
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