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Israel as the Twelve Tribes

Israel as the Twelve Tribes

Dozeman, Thomas

Hardcover

Series: Forschungen Zum Alten Testament

JudaismBible Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 31, 2026

ISBN10: 3162003490
ISBN13: 9783162003492
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: Dec 31 2026
Pages: 290
Language: English
Thomas Dozeman traces the emergence and the decline of the twelve tribes in the postexilic period, coinciding roughly with the rise and the fall of the Persian empire. The twelve tribes are traditionally interpreted as the social structure of all Israel in the period of the judges, providing the background for the emergence of the united monarchy. Recent research clarifies the original separation of the northern and southern kingdoms, with the view of one Israelite people emerging only later in their history. The late development of pan-Israelite identity in the monarchic period requires the reevaluation of the twelve tribes, not as an early form of pan-Israelite identity in the period of the judges but as a response to the exile and the loss of the monarchy. The distribution of the two words for tribe, sēbet and maṭṭeh, provides the roadmap for describing the varieties of tribal identity in the exilic and early postexilic periods in Ezekiel, Genesis, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua, and for interpreting the rejection of the twelve tribes in the late postexilic period in Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah, and the Judean editing of the Former Prophets.

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