Ancient Israel: A New History of Israelite Society

by Niels Peter Lemche

When this provocative text was first published, Lemche presented a new model of how we should understand Israelite society, its history and its religion. Lemche argues first that 'Israel' was the result of a social development among the Canaanite population of Palestine in the second half of the second millennium BCE. This implies that Israelite religion was originally 'Canaanite' and that what we think of as typically 'Jewish' religion did not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567662780
• ISBN13: 9780567662781
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"