Exploring the Religion of Ancient Israel

Exploring the Religion of Ancient Israel
Author: Aaron Chalmers
Publisher: IVP Academic
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830825455

Aaron Chalmers gives students a unique introduction to the religious and social world of ancient Israel. The first part explores the major religious offices mentioned in the Old Testament, including prophets, priests, sages and kings. As well as considering what these key people said and did, the author traces the process through which one became recognized as a prophet, priest or sage, and where each of these offices were located in ancient Israel. The second part of the book focuses on the beliefs and practices of the common people--the group that made up the majority of ancient Israel s population.

The Religion of Ancient Israel

The Religion of Ancient Israel
Author: Patrick D. Miller
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664221454

The historical and literary questions about ancient Israel that traditionally have preoccupied biblical scholars have often overlooked the social realities of life experienced by the vast majority of the population of ancient Israel. Volumes in the Library of Ancient Israel draw on multiple disciplines -- such as archaeology, anthropology, sociology, and literary criticism -- to illumine the everyday realities and social subtleties these ancient cultures experienced. This series employs sophisticated methods resulting in original contributions that depict the reality of the people behind the Hebrew Bible and interprets these scholarly insights for a wide variety of readers. Individually and collectively, these books will expand our vision of the culture and society of ancient Israel, thereby generating new appreciation for its impact up to the present.Patrick Miller investigates the role religion played in an expanding circle of influences in ancient Israel: the family, village, tribe, and nation-state. He situates Israel's religion in context where a variety of social forces affected beliefs, and where popular cults openly competed with the "official" religion. Miller makes extensive use of both epigraphic and artefactual evidence as he deftly probes the complexities of Iron Age culture and society and their enduring significance for people today.

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 1910
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.

The History and Religion of Israel

The History and Religion of Israel
Author: George Wishart Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1966
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The history and religion of Israel are inseparable and yet stand in sharp contrast to each other. The history of Israel is in one sense only a minor feature in the broad complex of ancient Near Eastern history. With the possible exception of the reigns of David and Solomon, Israel never attained imperial status.

State and Religion in Israel

State and Religion in Israel
Author: Gideon Sapir
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107150825

Discusses state and religion relations in Israel by applying a general theory regarding the role of religion in liberal countries.

Saturday People, Sunday People

Saturday People, Sunday People
Author: Lela Gilbert
Publisher: Encounter Books
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2012-12-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1594036527

Saturday People, Sunday People is a unique portrait of Israel as seen through the eyes of a Christian who came for a visit and has stayed on for more than six years. Long fascinated by a land that has become an abstraction centering on international conflicts of epic proportions, Lela Gilbert arrived in Israel on a personal pilgrimage in August 2006—in the midst of a raging war. What she found was a vibrant country, enlivened by warm-hearted, lively people of great intelligence and decency. Saturday People, Sunday People tells the story of the real Israel and of real Israelis—ordinary and extraordinary—and the energetic rhythm of their lives, even during times of tragedy and terror. The book interweaves a memoir of Gilbert’s experiences with Israel’s people and places, alongside a rich account of past and present events that continue to shape the lives of Israelis and the world beyond their borders. As she watched events unfold in the Middle East, Gilbert witnessed how the simplest facts turned into lies, from denial of the existence of a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem to the characterization of Israel’s defensive border fence as “Apartheid.” Then Gilbert learned of a story that had all but vanished into history: the persecution and pogroms that drove more than 850,000 Jews from Muslim lands between 1948 and 1970—the “Forgotten Refugees.” Their experience is now repeating itself among Christian communities in those same Muslim countries. This cruel pattern embodies the Islamist slogan calling for the elimination of “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.”

The Body of Faith

The Body of Faith
Author: Michael Wyschogrod
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Total Pages: 620
Release: 1996
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781568219103

The similarities and differences between Jewish and Christian teaching about God's presence in the world are discussed in great depth.

Did God Have a Wife?

Did God Have a Wife?
Author: William G. Dever
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2008-07-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802863949

This richly illustrated, non-technical reconstruction of "folk religion" in ancient Israel is based largely on recent archaeological evidence, but also incorporates biblical texts where possible.

Religion and Political Power

Religion and Political Power
Author: Gustavo Benavides
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1989-07-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791400272

This book explores the interaction between two of the most charged topics in the modern world, religion and politics. It shows the inextricable connection between religious attitudes and representations, and political activities. After an introductory chapter explores theoretically the religious articulations of political power, the authors examine the role played by religion in the current political situation in several countries. Approaching these cases as anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists, the authors make visible the dialectical relationship between religion and the pursuit of political power—on the one hand, the political significance of religious choices, and on the other, the almost unavoidable need to articulate in religious terms a group’s attempt to acquire, maintain, or expand political power.