The forgotten kingdom : the archaeology and history of northern Israel
Introduction: In the first half of the eighth century b.c.e., Israel ruled over the lion’s share of the territory of the two Hebrew kingdoms (fig. 1), and its population accounted for three quarters of the people of Israel and Judah combined (Broshi and Finkelstein 1992). Israel was stronger than Judah both militarily and economically, and in the first half of the ninth century and in the first half of the eighth century—almost half the time the two kingdoms co-existed—Israel dominated the southern kingdom. Nonetheless, Israel has lingered in the shadow of Judah, both in the story told in the Hebrew Bible and in the attention paid to it by modern scholarship...
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| Format: | Libro biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Society of Biblical Literature
2013
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| Subjects: | ARQUEOLOGIA, HISTORIA ANTIGUA, EDAD DE HIERRO, EDAD DE BRONCE, ORIENTE ANTIGUO, REINO DE ISRAEL, |
| Online Access: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/8018 |
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