Synopses & Reviews
Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., the eminent Egyptologist Donald Redford explores three thousand years of uninterrupted contact between Egypt and Western Asia across the Sinai land-bridge. In the vivid and lucid style that we expect from the author of the popular Akhenaten, Redford presents a sweeping narrative of the love-hate relationship between the peoples of ancient Israel/Palestine and Egypt.
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Winner of the 1993 Best Scholarly Book in Archaeology Award, Biblical Archaeological Society
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"In the best Egyptological tradition. . . . This is a work written by a master in Near Eastern studies."
--Jean-Pierre V.M. Herubel, Digest of Middle East Studies
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"Attractively presents for the lay reader a wealth of research on the peoples and localities of ancient Palestine."
--Journal of Palestine Studies
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"In his ability to understand the fragmentary data of ancient history, and in constructive use of imagination, Redford has few equals in the field. . . . One of the finest histories of the ancient Near East."
--The Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations and Tables | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
Pt. 1 | Egypt and the Levart from Prehistoric Times to the Hyksos | |
Ch. 1 | Village, Camps, and the Rise of a Colossus | 3 |
Ch. 2 | Upper and Lower Egypt and the Walled Towns of Asia | 29 |
Ch. 3 | "Lo, the Vile Asiatic!" | 56 |
Ch. 4 | "Trampling the Foreign Lands": Egypt and Asia during the Middle Kingdom | 71 |
Ch. 5 | The Hyksos in Egypt | 98 |
Pt. 2 | The Egyptian Empire in Asia | |
Ch. 6 | "Extending the Frontiers of Egypt" | 125 |
Ch. 7 | The Empire of the New Kingdom | 192 |
Ch. 8 | Asia in Egypt: Mosaic, Not Melting Pot | 214 |
Pt. 3 | The Great Migrations | |
Ch. 9 | The Coming of the Sea Peoples | 241 |
Ch. 10 | "These are the Bene-Yisrael. . .," | 257 |
Pt. 4 | Egypt and the Hebrew Kingdoms | |
Ch. 11 | Horses and Pharaoh's Daughter: Egypt and the United Monarchy | 283 |
Ch. 12 | Egypt and Israel in the World of Assyria | 312 |
Ch. 13 | Specter or Reality? The Question of Egyptian Influence on Israel of the Monarchy | 365 |
Ch. 14 | Four Great Origin Traditions | 395 |
Ch. 15 | Egypt and the Fall of Judah | 430 |
| Epilogue | 470 |
| Index | 473 |