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An illuminating social history of ancient Israel, Chieftains of the Highland Clans offers an unusually thorough and original reconstruction of Israelite society prior to the rise of the monarchy around 1000 B.C. Using the latest archaeological research and anthropological theories, Robert Miller presents an intriguing picture of what life was like in early Israel. Ethnographic evidence from...

We can now gather up the archaeological data discussed above and extract the conclusions they point to for a social history. To write a social history of highland Palestine involves the construction of a narrative. As we have discussed above (see Chapter 2), this is the act of a choice from among various possible narratives that could describe the period. It is a choice both of content and of form. A social history, as discussed in
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