Tel Beth-Shean: History and Archaeology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents vii
3. I. The Great Monarchy: Biblical and Archaeological Perspectives on David and Solomon
4. A Great United Monarchy? Archaeological and Historical Perspectives 1
5. Archaeology and the Biblical Narrative: The Case of the United Monarchy 29
6. Solomon and the United Monarchy: Some Textual Evidence 59
7. Elders or Youngsters? Critical Remarks on 1 Kings 12 79
8. 'What Share Do We Have in David...?' – Ben Sira's Perspectives on 1 Kings 12 91
9. II. The Cult Centralization in Its Near Eastern Context: Perspectives on Hezekiah and Josiah
10. The Idea of Cultic Centralization and Its Supposed Ancient Near Eastern Analogies 119
11. Cult Centralization in the Ancient Near East? Conceptions of the Ideal Capital in the Ancient Near East 145
12. Perspectives on Southern Israel's Cult Centralization: Arad and Beer-scheba 169
13. Why the Cult Reforms in Judah Probably Did not Happen 201
14. III. The Ancient City: Perspectives on the Political and Cultural Interrelations at Beth Shean
15. Tel Beth-Shean: History and Archaeology 237
16. Nysa-Scythopolis: Ethnicity and Religion 273
17. Beth Shean/Scythopolis in Late Antiquity: Cult and Culture, Continuity and Change 301
18. IV. The One and The Only: Perspectives on the Development of a Divine Concept
19. God and His People: The Concept of Kingship and Cult in the Ancient Near East 339
20. YHWH in the Northern and Southern Kingdom 357
21. From Many Gods to the One God: The Archaeological Evidence 395
22. Monotheism and Angelology in Daniel 405
23. Justice, the King and the Gods: Polytheism and Emerging Monotheism in the Ancient World 421
24. Backmatter 455