The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

by Susan Niditch

Publisher:

John Wiley

, 2016

Overview

The Companion to Ancient Israel offers an innovative overview of ancient Israelite culture and history, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields. Distinguished scholars provide original contributions that explore the tradition in all its complexity, multiplicity and diversity.

A methodologically sophisticated overview of ancient Israelite culture that provides insights into political and social history, culture, and methodology

Explores what we can say about the cultures and history of the people of Israel and Judah, but also investigates how we know what we know

Presents fresh insights, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields

Delves into ‘religion as lived,’ an approach that asks about the everyday lives of ordinary people and the material cultures that they construct and experience

Each essay is an original contribution to the subject

Key Features

• Offers an innovative overview of ancient Israelite culture and history.
• Provides insights into political and social history.
• Redefines the study of ancient Israel.

Product Details

• Title: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel
• Author: Susan Niditch
• Series: Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Publisher: John Wiley
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 568
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• ISBNs: 9780470656778, 0470656778
• Resource ID: LLS:WLYBLCKWLLNCSRL
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-13T23:21:29Z

About Susan Niditch

Susan Niditch is Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. She is the author of many books, including Oral World and Written Word: Ancient Israelite Literature in the acclaimed Library of Ancient Israel, published by Westminster John Knox Press.