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| Publisher's Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Social History Method | |
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| Social History as Discipline and as Method | |
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| The History of Events and "the Long Term" | |
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| A Description of Social History | |
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| History of Scholarship | |
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| Methods for Studying the Social History of Israel | |
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| Environment as Living Space | |
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| The Geographical Environment | |
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| The Historical Environment | |
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| Material Remains | |
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| Archaeology: Artifacts and Interpretation | |
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| Epigraphic Material from Israel and Its Environment | |
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| The Texts of the Hebrew Bible | |
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| The Historical Reliability of the Biblical Accounts | |
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| Fiction and Milieu | |
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| Intentional and Unintentional Tradition | |
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| Norm and Reality | |
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| Dating Biblical Texts | |
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| In Search of Analogies | |
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| Societies in Israel's Environment | |
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| Ethnology: From Empirical Studies to Theory | |
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| Sociological Categories | |
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| The Epochs of Israel's Social History | |
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| Israel's Origins as a Kinship-Based Society | |
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| The Beginnings of Something Called Israel | |
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| Structures of Kinship-Based Societies | |
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| Israel and Judah: From Early Statehood to Full Development | |
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| From Initial Statehood to the Middle of the Eighth Century | |
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| The Beginnings of a State | |
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| Society and State under Monarchical Rule | |
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| Profiles of Monarchy in Israel and Judah | |
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| The Formation of an Ancient Class Society | |
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| The Political Background from the Eighth to the Sixth Century | |
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| Israel and Judah as an Ancient Class Society | |
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| Exiles and Their Consequences | |
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| From Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus | |
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| Judah under Babylonian Rule | |
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| Israel in Exile | |
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| Provincial Society under Persia | |
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| From Cyrus to Alexander | |
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| Society and State in Judah and Samaria in the Persian Period | |
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| Temple and Torah | |
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| Life in the Diaspora | |
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| Yehud, Samaria, Israel: A Provincial Society in the Persian Period | |
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| The Jewish Ethnos in the Hellenistic Age | |
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| From Alexander the Great to the Hasmoneans | |
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| Changes in Society and State | |
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| Hellenistic Governance Structures | |
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| The Many Forms of "Israel" | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trans-epochal Features of Israel's Social History | |
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| Israel's Identity | |
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| Prospect: The Theological Relevance of Social History | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of selected topics | |
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| Index of selected biblical passages | |