MENAS 398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moab, Edom, Zionism

• School: U of M
• Department: Middle Eastern And North African Studies
• Course: MENAS 398
• Professor: Yaron Eliav

Document Summary

Philistines - people of the sea , came over from greece. Brought iron with them to the land - very important. Iron weapons were much stronger than bronze weapons. Philistines had military leader for each of the 5 cities in pentapolis, these five generals ran society. Monarchies came out because of philistines, philistines changed everything. Eliav"s thesis was that all tribes of israel needed to come together (through david) to fight the. David did this by adopting the god of israel and moving the capital from hebron to jerusalem, forcing 12 tribes to interact with each other and centralize - brilliant move. Not everyone agrees with this - the other main theory is that unification wasn"t for defensive reasons, but instead for offensive reasons (to eventually take over the philistines) Pros and cons of having trade routes go right through your territory. Goods and ideas are constantly traveling through, good for trade and spread of ideas.