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Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: An Introduction is unavailable, but you can change that!

This unusually comprehensive textbook represents the most recent approaches to the biblical world by surveying Palestine’s social, political, economic, religious and ecological changes from Palaeolithic to Roman eras. Designed for beginners with little knowledge of the ancient world, and with copious illustrations and charts, this volume explains how and why academic study of the past is...

simultaneous abandonment of the new capital city has resulted in a perfect time capsule just waiting for the modern archaeologist’s spade. While the sun-disk Aten shone over Amarna, Pharaoh’s subjects in Canaan bowed ‘seven times and seven times’ before their god, their sun, the king of Egypt. That courtly language was typical not only when the Aten was the god of Egypt, but before and after Akhenaten’s reign as well. Canaan was very much a part of the Egyptian domain, and Pharaoh was Palestine’s
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