ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Timnah, Tel Hazor, Twentieth Dynasty Of Egypt
14 Aug 2020
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Israel"s mixed multitude: marginalization, resistance, and the creation of identity. Much more than history or memory: exodus as charter myth. Foundational story for explaining or justifying things as they should be: israelite cultic and legal traditions, inheritance of land, levites and priestly power, against local traditions (e. g. , patriarchal history) A mixed multitude also went up with them, and livestock in great numbesr, both flocks and herds. Lb iib 1300-1200 bc dynasty 19 (ramesside period) Intensifying egyptian imperial presence over the course of the late bronze age created the socioeconomic contexts that gave rise to the formation of israelite identity. Site hierarchy: administrative fortresses (jaffa, beth-shean, road forts from n. sinai (haruvit, deir el-balah, tel mor, agricultural estates (aphek, mining in sinai (timnah, serabit el-khadem) Epigraphic evidence: monumental stelae (e. g. , beth-shean, hieratic inscriptions (bowls, votive statues. Ceramics in tomb contexts (from the late mb: mycenaean ceramics, cypriot ceramics. Amarna letters (c. 1350 bc): royal envoys.
