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Archaeology And Religion In Canaan And Israel

Author: Nakhai, Beth Alpert
Series#:7; Asor Books; Paperback; 4 B&w Maps
276 pages
Published: November 2001
American Schools of Oriental Research
ISBN: 089757057X

This book discusses the role of religion in Canaanite and Israelite society, from the Middle Bronze Age through the Israelite Divided Monarchy (2000-587 BC). It contains an extensive archaeological study of all known Middle Bronze through Iron Age temples, sanctuaries, and open-air shrines, organized by period and geographic region. Social science and textually based analyses of sacrifice in antiquity reveal the many ways in which religion was related to social structure, and the author emphasizes the ways in which social, economic and political relationships determined - and were shaped by - forms of religious organization.In this amplification of her 1993 Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Arizona, Nakhai demonstrates that archaeological data can provide witness independent of literary sources to the religious practices of Canaanites and Israelites in the second to mid-first millennia BCE. She argues that the p

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