Lipovsky, Igor P.; Lipovsky, Igor; Lipovskij, Igorʹ Pavlovič: Early Israelites: Two Peoples, One History : Rediscovery of the Origins of Ancient Israel. 2019
Inhalt
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction: Where did the Ancient Semites come from?
- Chapter One: The beginning of Jewish history
- The origins of biblical patriarchs
- Family or tribal group?
- Adoption of the cult of El
- The family tree of Hebrews and their relatives
- Chapter Two: The Southerners and the Northerners
- Jacob and Israel: the two forefathers of the Hebrew tribes
- When was the story of Abraham-Isaac-Jacob written?
- Who were the biblical Hittites?
- Creation of common genealogy and history
- Chapter Three: In the Egypt of the Hyksos
- What does the Bible hide?
- West Semitic nomads settle the Nile Delta
- Who were the Hyksos?
- Hyksos’ connections with Canaan
- What did the Egyptian pharaohs conceal?
- The Amorites: the new rulers of the Nile country
- The ‘house of Joseph’ and the ‘house of Jacob’ in Egypt
- The fall of the Hyksos and first exodus of the Western Semites
- Chapter Four: The ‘House of Joseph’ in Canaan. 15th-13th centuries B.C.E.
- The Amarna letters on Habiru and Sutu
- Egyptian rule and Hurrian presence in Canaan
- The emergence of Israel
- Chapter Five: The second exodus of the Western Semites from Egypt
- Chapter Six: On the path to the old homeland
- The birth of monotheism
- Religious and tribal conflicts
- Alliance with the Midianites and confrontation with the Amalekites
- The strengthening of Egypt and split of Moses’s tribes
- Chapter Seven: The Peoples of pre-Israelite Canaan
- Chapter Eight: The re-conquest of Canaan
- Moses’s people join the Israelite tribal league
- The re-conquest of Canaan in the light of biblical and archaeological data
- The struggle for Canaan: three time periods
- Israelites and Canaanites: peaceful co-existence and intermarriage
- The Northerners and the Southerners – their separate conquests in Canaan
- The fate of the tribe of Reuben
- Settlement on the land
- Chapter Nine: In the days when there was no king in Israel
- The judges and their gods
- The disintegration of the Israelite tribal confederation
- The tribe of Dan: West Semitic or Indo-European?
- The Philistine threat
- Selected Bibliography
- Index