Ancient Canaan and Israel: New Perspectives.DS121 2004-009633 1-57607-897-3 Ancient Canaan and Israel; new perspectives. Golden, Jonathan M. (Understanding ancient civilizations) ABC-CLIO, [c]2004 415 p. $75.00 Golden (anthropology anthropology, classification and analysis of humans and their society, descriptively, culturally, historically, and physically. Its unique contribution to studying the bonds of human social relations has been the distinctive concept of culture. , Drew U., Fairleigh Dickinson U., Madison, NJ) presents a 4,000-year history of the Holy Land that incorporates new findings from excavations and shifts in the field's theoretical underpinnings. After introducing the ancient cultures of the southern Levant The Levant is defined as the geographical region bordering the Mediterranean, roughly between Egypt and Anatolia (modern Turkey). The southern Levant is therefore roughly the same area as that occupied by the modern states of Israel (including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and and resources for their study, he situates these cultures in geographic, economic, social, political, religious, material culture, and intellectual contexts. The author discusses current controversies, including "biblical archeology" as supporting modern political agendas. The well-illustrated volume includes a chronology chronology, n the arrangement of events in a time sequence, usually from the beginning to the end of an event. , glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary. , and an extensive reference list for further study by nonspecialists. |
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