Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: Miller, Robert D | Copyright information

PAULA MCNUTT, Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel (Library of Ancient Israel; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999). Pp. xii + 284. $29.95.

This volume in the Library of Ancient Israel series is an attempt to synthesize recent social-scientific research on ancient Israel. Its first chapter is largely theoretical, and following chapters are chronological. In chaps. 2, 4, and 6, McNutt brings into focus the social processes associated with major transitions in ancient Israel...

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