The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy

by C.L. Crouch

In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exilic and post-exilic periods as well as scholarship which limits pre-exilic identity concerns to Josianic nationalism. The argument analyses the archaeological material from the southern Levant during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004335978
• ISBN13: 9789004335974
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"