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History of ancient Israel and Judah
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Pre-history of the Southern Levant. For a history of the modern state of Israel, see
History of Israel. For an overview of the history of the region called Palestine, see
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History of the Levant.
The history of Ancient
Israel and
Judah is known to us from classical sources including
Judaism's
Tanakh or
Hebrew Bible
(known to
Christianity as the
Old Testament), the Talmud, the
Ethiopian
Kebra Nagast, the writings of
Nicolaus of Damascus,
Artapanas,
Philo of Alexandria and
Josephus supplemented by ancient sources uncovered by
archaeology
including
Egyptian, Moabite,
Assyrian,
Babylonian as well as Israelite and Judean inscriptions.
William Dever
[1] suggests that rather than there being just one history there are in fact multiple histories and that we can distinguish nine types of history of Israel and Judah as follows.
Theological history � the relationship between the God(s) and their believers.
Political history � usually the account of �Great Men�, is generally episodic, chauvinistic and propagandist
Narrative history � a running chronology of events, purporting to be factual but always very highly selective
Socio-cultural history � a history of institutions, including their social underpinnings in family, clan, tribe and social class and the state
Intellectual history � the literary history of ideas and their development, context and evolution as expressed through texts and documents
Cultural history � is based upon a larger context of overall cultural evolution, demography, socio-economic and political structure and ethnicity
Technological history � a history of the techniques by which humans adapt to, exploit and make use of the resources of their environment
Natural history � is a geographic history of how humans discover and adapt to the ecological understandings of their natural environment
Material history � as shown in the study of artifacts as correlates of human changes in behaviour.
Archeology can provide assistance in 3,4,6,7,8,9. Conventional �Biblical� textual history can provide assistance in 1,2, 3 and 5.
