MIDEAST 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Execration Texts, Via Maris, Tel Hazor

• School: U of M
• Department: Middle East Studies
• Course: MIDEAST 207
• Professor: Yaron Z. Eliav

Document Summary

Iron age = begins 1200 bce, historical foundation for israeli territorial claims in. Bronze age (before 1200 bce) = 2 empires , written history develops in other regions region , period of the conquest . Scripts: beginning 3000 bce, include: big archives, execration texts, burial inscriptions. Names of i/p: land of rattanu, canaan. Canaanites/amorites = inhabitants of region, ethnic group , shared consciousness & Not religion political system = canaanite city-states ( 31 kings, usually. 15k-25k citizens each) under egyptian monitoring: mesopotamia = #2, (sumeria, akkad, babylon) 3 kingdoms: weakness. Bronze age: canaanite city-states (n s) under egyptian rule. Hazor: most important city-state in canaan, greatest king, @ galilee. Meggido : #2 important, controls highway b/c sits on via maris @ jezreel valley. Race = biological/genetic makeup of group of people, invented by 1700s scholars studying bronze age demographics. Ethnicity = shared identity created by language, culture, religion, common history. According to bible, abraham migrated from mesopotamia to canaan.