The Social History of Ancient Israel Jarrod M. Leffler The work yokes ten images

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The Social History of Ancient Israel Jarrod M. Leffler The work yokes ten imagesHistories of ancient Israel have usually focused attention on major figures in powerful positions: kings, prophets, and patriarchs. Kessler asks about the larger social patterns that shaped the everyday life of ordinary people, from the emergence of Israel in the hills of Canaan, to the Jewish populations of Greek city states in the Hellenistic age. The introductory section includes discussion of social history as discipline and as method, event