In the Footsteps of Bagira: ethnicity, archaeology, and ‘Iron I ethnic Israel’

Authors

  • Raz Kletter University of Helsinki

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30664/ar.67545

Keywords:

Middle East, Archaeology, Ethnicity, Ethnoarchaeology, Israel -- History, Iron Age -- Palestine, Israelites, Ancient

Abstract

This article has two aims. The first is to show that the search for ethnicity in archaeology is dependent on the way ethnicity is defined and on written sources. The second is to review studies of Iron Age I ‘ethnic Israel’. There is an ongoing, heated debate between ‘maximalists’ and ‘minimalists’, trying to prove or refute such identity. Which side in this debate is right?

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Published

2014-12-08

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2014): Third Finnish Colloquium of Middle East and North African Studies

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2014 Raz Kletter

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Kletter, R. (2014). In the Footsteps of Bagira: ethnicity, archaeology, and ‘Iron I ethnic Israel’. Approaching Religion, 4(2), 2-15. https://doi.org/10.30664/ar.67545