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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: Why a Book on the Northern Kingdom? | |
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| Historiography and Historical Memory | |
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| Recent Advances in Archaeology | |
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| The Personal Perspective | |
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| Setting the Stage: The Shechem Polity of the Late Bronze Age and the Final Days of the Canaanite City-States in the Late Iron I | |
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| The Late Bronze Age | |
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| The Shechem Polity in the Amarna Period | |
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| The End of the Late Bronze Age | |
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| The Iron Age I | |
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| The Highlands | |
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| The Lowlands | |
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| The First North Israelite Territorial Entity: The Gibeon/Gibeah Polity and the House of Saul | |
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| The Gibeon-Bethel Plateau | |
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| Sheshonq I and the Highlands North of Jerusalem | |
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| Excursus: The Land of Benjamin: North or South? | |
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| Sheshonq I, the Saulide Territory, and Archaeology | |
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| Preservation of Early Memories in Samuel: The Case of Shiloh | |
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| The Date and Territorial Extent of the Saulide Polity | |
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| Dating Saul and the Saulides | |
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| The Territory of the Saulides | |
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| Philistines or Egyptians? | |
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| The Early Days of the Northern Kingdom: The Tirzah Polity | |
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| Relative Dates, Absolute Dates, and Historicity | |
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| Note on Material Culture | |
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| Tirzah | |
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| The Site, Its Excavation, and Its Stratigraphy | |
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| Excavation Results | |
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| Discussion | |
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| The Territory Ruled by the Tirzah Polity | |
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| Dan | |
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| Ben-Hadad | |
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| What Does Archaeology Say? | |
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| Sheshonq I and the Jezreel Valley | |
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| West and East | |
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| Highlands-Based Expanding Early Territorial Polity | |
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| The Rise of Jeroboam I | |
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| Tirzah and Jerusalem | |
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| The Northern Kingdom under the Omride Dynasty | |
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| Omride Architecture | |
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| Samaria | |
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| Jezreel | |
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| Hazor | |
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| Jahaz and Ataroth in Moab | |
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| Tell er-Rumeith in the Gilead | |
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| Other Sites | |
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| Summary: Characteristics of Omride Architecture | |
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| The Territory Ruled by the Omrides | |
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| Demographic Composition of the Omride Kingdom | |
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| Economic Resources of the Omrides | |
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| Writing | |
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| Cult | |
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| The Final Century of the Northern Kingdom | |
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| Hazael's Assaults on the Northern Kingdom | |
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| Four Late Iron IIA Destruction Horizons in the North | |
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| The Textual Evidence | |
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| Hazael's New Order | |
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| Dan and Bethsaida | |
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| Israel's Swan Song | |
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| Territorial Expansion | |
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| Economic Prosperity | |
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| Reorganization of Cult | |
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| Advance of Writing and Compilation of Northern Texts | |
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| Comments on the Two "Charter Myths" of the Northern Kingdom | |
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| The Reality behind the Core of the Jacob Cycle | |
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| The Origin and Development of the Exodus and Wandering Tradition | |
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| Summary | |
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| The End and Beyond: A New Meaning for "Israel" | |
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| Israelites in Judah after the Fall of the Northern Kingdom | |
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| The Rise of the Concept of Biblical Israel | |
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| Concluding Remarks: Long-Term History versus the Uniqueness of Israel | |
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| It's All about Timing | |
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| Long-Term History | |
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| Israel and Judah | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Index of Place Names | |
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| Index of Personal Names | |