History of Ancient Israel / Christian Frevel.

Geschichte Israels. English

Atlanta : SBL Press, [2023]

xxxviii, 657 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Revised edition. [English edition].

"Revised edition of Christian Frevel, Geschichte Israels, 2nd ed. (Stuttgart : Kohlhammer, 2018)." -- Title page verso.

1. Preliminary remarks on history and historiography. 1.1. Historiography between past, present, and future ; 1.2. History as an interpretive and meaningful selection and construction ; 1.3. Minimalists, maximalists, and the sources of Israel's history ; 1.4. The sources of a history of Israel ; 1.5. When should a history of Israel begin? ; 1.6. What does Israel mean in the history of Israel? ; 1.7. The geographical region of the history of Israel and the names of the land ; 1.8. Biblical numbers and chronologies ; 1.9. Archaeological chronology and the history of Israel ; 1.10. The history of Israel as it relates to other histories -- 2. Israel's prehistory. 2.1. On the historicity of the patriarchs and matriarchs ; 2.2. The Late Bronze Age city-states in Palestine ; 2.3. Israel in Egypt and its earliest mention on the stela of Merenptah ; 2.4. The Exodus -- 3. Israel's early history and its origin in Palestine. 3.1. Preliminary remarks ; 3.2. Migration as a cause of conquest? ; 3.3. The decline of Canaanite urban culture ; 3.4. Early Israel's emergence ; 3.5. The emergence of the new village culture in the hill country ; 3.6. The so-called conquest in Transjordan ; 3.7. The so-called period of the Judges and the system of the twelve tribes of Israel -- 4. The emergence of the monarchy. 4.1. Preliminary remarks : forms of rule ; 4.2. Israel's neighbors and their development in the twelfth-ninth centuries BCE ; 4.3. Israel/Palestine before the emergence of a monarchic authority ; 4.4. Saul ; 4.5. The kingdom of David ; 4.6. The kingdom of Solomon ; 4.7. The so-called division of the kingdom ; 4.8. The campaign of Pharaoh Shoshenq -- 5. History of Israel and Judah. 5.1. Overview of the history of the Neo-Assyrian Empire ; 5.2. Sources and regional development ; 5.3. The Aramcans and their influence on the development of Israel and Judah ; 5.4. Israel and Judah under the Omrides ; 5.5. Jehu's coup and the reign of the Nimshides in the ninth/eighth centuries BCE ; 5.6. Judah under Assyrian influence and the fall of Israel in 720 BCE ; 5.7. Judah under Hezekiah after Israel's fall until 701 BCE ; 5.8. Judah in the seventh century BCE under Manasseh ; 5.9. Judah in the power play between Assyria, Babylon, and Egypt-Josiah ; 5.10. Judah as a Babylonian province and the end of the Kingdom of Judah ; 5.11. Judah after the kingdom's fall until the end of exile ; 5.12. The diaspora in Babylonia and in Egypt -- 6. The history of Israel in the Persian Period. 6.1. Overview of the history of the Persian Empire ; 6.2. The Persian Empire's economy, administration, and organization ; 6.3. The province of Yehud and its political status ; 6.4. The Cyrus Edict and the return from exile ; 6.5. Jerusalem's restoration and the construction of the Second Temple ; 6.6. The community's reorganization under Nehemiah; 6.7. Ezra's mission ; 6.8. Samaria, the Samarians, and the Samaritans ; 6.9. Idumea and the Idumeans ; 6.10. Sanctuaries in the Persian Period and the pluriformity of YHWH worship ; 6.11. The Persian Period as a formative period of later Judaism : summary -- 7. Israel's history in the Hellenistic Period. 7.1. Overview of the history of the Hellenistic Period ; 7.2. Hellenism ; 7.3. Economy, administration, and organization of the Hellenistic empires ; 7.4. Tobiads, Oniads, and the backgrounds of the Maccabean uprising ; 7.5. The crisis under Antiochus IV and the Maccabean uprising 7.5.1. Antiochus IV's policy toward Egypt ; 7.6. The Hasmoneans -- 8. The history of Israel in the Roman Period : an overview. 8.1. Palestine's reorganization under Roman rule ; 8.2. The revolts of Alexander and Antigonus ; 8.3. Judea after Caesar's victory ; 8.4. Herod the Great ; 8.5. Herod's successors ; 8.6. The Jewish War, 66-70 CE ; 8.7. The Bar Kokhba revolt, 132-135 CE -- 9. Epilogue -- 10. Appendices. 10.1. Chronological overviews ; 10.2. Glossary of selected technical terms ; 10.3. General and comprehensive literature ; 10.4. Maps ; 10.5. Place names with coordinates ; 10.6. Indexes.

Preliminary remarks on history and historiography -- Israel's prehistory -- Israel's early history and its origin in Palestine -- The emergence of the monarchy -- History of Israel and Judah -- The history of Israel in the Persian Period -- Israel's history in the Hellenistic Period -- Epilogue.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 578-587) and indexes.

Translated from German.