The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 B.C.E.

Front Cover
Orbis Books, 1979 - History - 916 pages

Contents

Complementarity of Humanistic and Sociological Studies
8
Overview of Contents
18
Temporal Distance
25
Israel in Canaan 12501000 b c
32
Compendium of Historical Sources
45
A Preliminary View
63
Anatomy of the Historical Traditions
72
Tradition Formation as Sociohistorical Symbolization
83
StructuralFunctional
376
DIACHRONICCOMPARATIVE SOCIAL STRUCTURE
387
The Apiru Adaptation in Amarna Canaan
401
Philistines as Heirs of EgyptianCanaanite Dominion
410
Societal Problematics
417
Critique
435
Coexistence and Opposition
464
Convergence
474

Substructure
100
Uncentralized Traditions Resistant to the Basic Themes
115
Joshua and Judges
129
Deuteronomic History and the Old Basic Themes
140
PreDeuteronomic Sources in Joshua and Judges
150
Sociohistoric Sketch of Major Tradition Types
176
PART V
187
The Immigration Model
204
The Revolt Model
210
Models of the Settlement and Models of the Social System
220
Prospect of Parts VIIX
228
PART VI
235
Primary Subdivisions of the Social Structure
245
Secondary Subdivisions of the Social Structure
257
Tertiary Subdivisions of the Social Structure
285
Anthropological and Sociological Commentary
293
Critique and Rebuttal
345
An Alternative Explanation of the TwelveTribe System
358
An Expanded Coalition of Antistatist Social Sectors
489
Canaanite Belligerents visàvis Liberated Israel
498
Canaanite Converts Neutrals and Allies visàvis Liberated Israel
555
Heartland of the Yahwistic Socioeconomic
584
A Preliminary View
591
Mutual Reinforcement of Yahwism
608
A Program of Historical CulturalMaterial Research into Early Israel
650
On Affirming and Defining the Uniqueness of Israel
667
Ancient Near Eastern
676
Socioeconomic Demythologization of Israelite Yahwism
692
Idealism or Historical Cultural
700
A Notes
713
555
784
B Indices
803
Epilogue
883
100
915
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