JUDAICA Ancient History –
Martin Noth’s The History of Israel is a famous 1958 (this is the 1960 revised edition) book that views early Israel as a twelve-tribe amphictyony, traces the nation through the Palestinian world, and analyzes its fall under foreign empires.
- Tribal Confederation: Israel as a group of twelve tribes linked by a shared faith and central sanctuary before having a king.
- Palestinian Setting: How early Israelites lived and fit into the land and local cultures of ancient Palestine and Syria.
- Great Powers: The impact and rule of big foreign empires from the ancient East on the northern and southern kingdoms.
- Decline and Fall: The final loss of political freedom, the exile, and later religious restoration.
- pp. ix, 487 #010826 Near Fine in edge-worn dustjacket.
