Tribes and Territories in Transition

The Central East Jordan Valley in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages: A Study of the Sources

by E.J. van der Steen

Book cover: Tribes and Territories in Transition

Extent: 332 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Language & Linguistics

Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta

Series volume number: 130

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2004)

ISBN: 9789042913851

Price: $75.00

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This volume deals with the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the central East Jordan Valley, the period of the fall of the Egyptian New Kingdom, and of the birth of a new era, in which small kingdoms such as Ammon, Moab and Israel were born. A broad spectrum of sources is being reviewed: written evidence, excavations and surveys, and ethnographic sources from the 19th century and later. New archaeological evidence is being presented, including a report on the excavations of Tell el-Hammeh on the Zerqa. This evidence, written, material and ethnographical, is incorporated in a new model for the LB-IA transition in the region: a model that explains the events of this turbulent period as the precipitation of a tribal society, where the interactions of tribes and territories determined the political lay-out and shaped the kingdoms of the Iron Age.

  • By (author) EJ van der Steen