Pekka Pitkänen

Migration and Colonialism in Late Second Millennium BCE Levant and Its Environs

The Making of a New World

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781138677036
• ISBN-10: 1138677035
• Artikelnr.: 57999118

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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