دانلود کتاب Living by Livestock in Israel’s Exodus: Explaining Origins over Distance

The exodus is first of all a biblical story about how a people called Israel abandoned their residence in Egypt in spite of stubborn opposition from the pharaoh. Little in the primary biblical account lends itself to direct archaeological or historical investigation as an ancient “event.” Nevertheless, the story is historically interesting for its function as one of the core biblical explanations for how the people came into existence. It assumes a background outside their current land and conflict with the dominant power of an age when Canaan belonged to Egypt. I propose that the identity of the people as mobile herdsmen or pastoralists is both integral to the original narrative and crucial as a vehicle for explaining how a population could have moved to Canaan across substantial distance. As confirmed by references to Egypt in Hosea, this story was preserved in Israel before its eventual arrival in the separate kingdom of Judah, and it is Israel that maintained a memory that the people lived as mobile pastoralists before settling in their own land—whether based in Syria with Jacob or in Egypt with Moses. Read more... Abstract: The exodus is first of all a biblical story about how a people called Israel abandoned their residence in Egypt in spite of stubborn opposition from the pharaoh. Little in the primary biblical account lends itself to direct archaeological or historical investigation as an ancient “event.” Nevertheless, the story is historically interesting for its function as one of the core biblical explanations for how the people came into existence. It assumes a background outside their current land and conflict with the dominant power of an age when Canaan belonged to Egypt. I propose that the identity of the people as mobile herdsmen or pastoralists is both integral to the original narrative and crucial as a vehicle for explaining how a population could have moved to Canaan across substantial distance. As confirmed by references to Egypt in Hosea, this story was preserved in Israel before its eventual arrival in the separate kingdom of Judah, and it is Israel that maintained a memory that the people lived as mobile pastoralists before settling in their own land—whether based in Syria with Jacob or in Egypt with Moses