1st Edition
Migration and Colonialism in Late Second Millennium BCE Levant and Its Environs The Making of a New World
1. Introduction
2: The societal contexts of the ancient Near East and analysing migration, colonialism and violence
3. The imperial context of the second half of the second millennium BC
4. The Sea Peoples and ancient Philistia
5. Ancient Israel
6. Ancient Arameans
7. Other migrations and societies
8. Migration and colonialism, ancient and modern
Biography
Pekka Pitkänen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of Central Sanctuary and Centralization of Worship in Ancient Israel (2003), Joshua (2010) and A Commentary on Numbers: Narrative, Ritual and Colonialism (2017). His current research interests include ancient Near Eastern history in the context of world history, the biblical books of Genesis-Joshua with their reception and ritual studies and other sociological and anthropological appoaches to the study of the ancient world.
"[This book] contains valuable research and source references (10–22), detailed tables on periodization in the Ancient Near East (e.g. 11, 73f, 80, 88, 159) and a reference section with bibliography, index and index of biblical passages (245–278). The interspersed cards are also helpful. Overall, the work is likely to be written primarily for academic readers from the fields of archaeology and biblical studies."
-Giancarlo Voellmy, AfeT Reviews
