Palace-Clan Relations in the Bronze and Iron Ages Levant
Textual and Material Approaches
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Palace-Clan Relations in the Bronze and Iron Ages Levant
Textual and Material Approaches
About this book
Recent studies have demonstrated that ancient Near Eastern societies considered themselves as part of one social fabric, divided not by mode of life or place of residence, but according to traditional associations of kin. Kinship relations appear to maintain their essential integrity over long periods of time, even within complex political organizations. In the past it was common to view state formation as an evolutionary process â from tribe to state â during which former kinship relations and tribal identities dissolve in face of the political identity imposed by the "state". Today, however, it seems that there were no evolutionary relations between the tribe and the state, as they both represent identities that coexist at the same time. It is against this background that a common structural element of ancient Levantine polities emerges: their fragmented nature, mostly based on an overarching concept of kinship.
This book presents studies of different polities and societies from the Bronze and Iron Ages Levant and beyond, highlighting their kin-based social and political structures, interactions, and ultimate formations, as may be gleaned from both material and textual sources.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Palace-Clan Relations? On Structural Elements in the Socio-Political Organization of the Bronze and Iron Ages Levant and Their Archaeological Expressions
- Insights into the Socio-Political Structure of the Kingdom of YÄdiya/SamĘžal
- Beyond Purple and IvoryâThe Economy of the Phoenician Homeland Reconsidered
- Persistence and AdaptionâAspects of the Economic and Political Organization of the Beqaa during the Early Iron Age
- From Vine to Wine: The Royal Economy of Tel Shimron during the Middle Bronze Age
- Palace-Clan Relations Perspective on the Social and Political Structure of Iron Age Philistia
- The Archaeological Expression of Palace-Clan Relations in Early Monarchic Israel, with Reflections on Biblical Traditions in Judges and Kings
- The Israelite Tribal System as Reflected in the Book of JoshuaâLiterary and Traditio-Historical Considerations
- Palace-Clan Relations and Redaction Criticism: The Case of Judg 3â5
- Judges 9: A Lesson in Kingship and Kinship
- General Index
- Index of Selected Text Passages