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    <title>Critical issues in early Israelite history</title>
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    <namePart>Klingbeil, Gerald A.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Eisenbrauns</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2008</dateIssued>
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    <extent>324 p. : illus., maps ; hbk ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The rhetorical structuring of the Joshua conquest narratives / K. Lawson Younger Jr -- The Jericho and Ai of the book of Joshua / Richard S. Hess -- Merenptah's reference to Israel: critical issues for the origin of Israel / Michael G. Hasel -- The Persian period and the origins of Israel: beyond the myths / Efraín Velázquez -- Classical models for the appearance of Israel in Palestine / Paul J. Ray Jr -- The appearance of Israel in Canaan in recent scholarship / Patrick Mazani -- Between North and South: the archaeology of religion in late Bronze Age Palestine and the period of the settlement / Gerald A. Klingbeil -- The context of early Israel viewed through the archaeology of northern Mesopotamia and Syria / Mark W. Chavalas -- The survey of Manasseh and the origin of the central hill country settlers / Ralph K. Hawkins -- Israelite settlement at the margins of the northern hill country: connections to Joshua and Judges from Tell Dothan / Daniel M. Master -- Rewriting Philistine history: recent trends in Philistine archaeology and biblical studies / Steven M. Ortiz -- The search for Joshua's Ai / Bryant G. Wood.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Richard S. Hess, Gerald A. Klingbeil, and Paul J. Ray Jr.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-312) and indexes.</note>
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    <topic>Antiquities</topic>
    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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    <topic>Bronze age</topic>
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    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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    <topic>Iron age</topic>
    <geographic>Palestine</geographic>
    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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    <geographic>Palestine</geographic>
    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">DS111 .C75 2008</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">221.9/5</classification>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9781575068046 (hardcover : alk. paper)</identifier>
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