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Chapter 16 - Israel’s Highland Polity

An Attempt at History

from Part III - A New Paradigm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2025

Avraham Faust  and
Zev I. Farber
Avraham Faust
Affiliation:
Bar Ilan University, Israel
Zev I. Farber
Affiliation:
Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem
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Summary

Based on all the specifics teased out in Chapter 15, this chapter takes a wide view. While the narrative arc focuses on the general contours of the biblical account and the chapter retells the narrative of the United Monarchy from beginning to end, it is the archaeological and historical reality that is the driving explanatory force. Thus many aspects of the biblical account (especially those that relate to the relationship between Saul and David) are presented very differently than the traditional model, as we retell the biblical story as we think it really happened.

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biblical historyDavidSaulSolomonIsraelite expansionIsraelite empirePhilistinesSaul’s kingdomDavidic conquestSolomonic state
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The Bible's First Kings
Uncovering the Story of Saul, David, and Solomon
 , pp. 398 - 415
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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