The Rise and Fall of the Ancient Israelite States

Subjects:

• History » Ancient History
• Multicultural Studies » Middle East Studies
• Multicultural Studies » Jewish Studies

Reviews:

• [P]rovides fascinating insights into the coups, the political and marital alliances, and the international politics of ancient Israel. Sicker hopes that his work will offer readers a perspective on the history of the ancient Israelite states that will help them find a way through "the literary fog that has long enveloped the subject."
  —Jewish Book World Fall 2004
• By subjecting the biblical writings to a political anaysis, instead of the critical literary analysis common to contemporary biblical studies, Martin Sicker constructs a plausible political history of the ancient Israelite states that takes into consideration the geopolitical realities that directly conditioned much of that history as well as the religious dimentions of Israelite political culture that played a critical role in it..
  —SHOFAR Summer 2004

Table of Contents:

• Israelite History in Theopolitical Perspective
• The Geopolitical Setting
• The Israelite Conquest
• The Era of Tribal Confederacies
• From Confederacy to National State
• The Dual Monarchy (1)
• The Dual Monarchy (2)
• The Rise and Fall of the Kingdom of Israel
• Decline and Fall of the Kingdom of Judah
• The Aftermath
• Selected Bibliography