Migration and Colonialism in Late Second Millennium BCE Levant and Its Environs The Making of a New World Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East Series
Auteur : Pitkänen Pekka
This book examines migration and colonialism in the ancient Near East in the late second millennium BCE, with a focus on the Levant. It explores how the area was shaped by these movements of people, especially in forming the new Iron Age societies.
The book utilises recent sociological studies on group identity, violence, migration, colonialism and settler colonialism in its reconstruction of related social and political changes. Prime examples of migrations that are addressed include those involving the Sea Peoples and Philistines, ancient Israelites and ancient Arameans. The final chapter sets the developments in the ancient Near East in the context of recent world history from a typological perspective and in terms of the legacy of the ancient world for Judaism and Christianity. Altogether, the book contributes towards an enhanced understanding of migration, colonialism and violence in human history.
In addition to academics, this book will be of particular interest to students of this period in the Ancient Near East, as well anyone working on migration and colonialism in the ancient world. The book is also suitable to the general public interested in world history.
1. Introduction 2. The societal contexts of the ancient Near East and analysing migration, colonialism and violence 3. The imperial context of the second half of the second millennium BC 4. The Sea Peoples and ancient Philistia 5. Ancient Israel 6. Ancient Arameans 7. Other migrations and societies 8. Migration and colonialism, ancient and modern
Pekka Pitkänen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of Central Sanctuary and Centralization of Worship in Ancient Israel (2003), Joshua (2010) and A Commentary on Numbers: Narrative, Ritual and Colonialism (2017). His current research interests include ancient Near Eastern history in the context of world history, the biblical books of Genesis-Joshua with their reception and ritual studies and other sociological and anthropological appoaches to the study of the ancient world.
Date de parution : 09-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 10-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
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Ramesses III; Thutmose III; Ancient Levant; Amenhotep III; Ancient Philistia; Late Bronze Iron Age Transition; Ancient Israel; Eighth Century BCE; Ancient Aram; Philistines; Millennium BCE; Israelites; Arameans; BCE; History of the Levant; Late Bronze Early Iron Age; Levantine history; Late Bronze Age; Archaeology of the Levant; Southern Levant; Levantine archaeology; Aramean Identity; Biblical migrations; Settler Colonial Processes; Biblical colonialism; Settler Colonial Invasion; colonialism in the Bible; Biblical Documents; Violence in the Bible; Twelfth Century Bce; Ancient Near East; Ninth Century Bce; History of the Ancient Near East; Sea Peoples; Ancient migration; Ashur Dan II; History of migration; Beth Rehob; Ancient colonialism; Eleventh Century Bce; History of colonialism; Middle Assyrian; Second Millennium BCE; Northern Levant; Ancient violence; Early Israel; Violence in the Ancient Near East; migration; second millennium bce Levant; new Iron Age societies; colonialism; ancient Israelites
