Pekka Pitkänen

Gebundenes Buch

Migration and Colonialism in Late Second Millennium BCE Levant and Its Environs

The Making of a New World

Beschreibung

This book examines migration and colonialism in the ancient Near East in the late second millennium BCE, with a focus on the Levant. It explores how the area was shaped by these movements of people, especially in forming the new Iron Age societies.

Autor

Pekka Pitkänen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of Central Sanctuary and Centralization of Worship in Ancient Israel (2003), Joshua (2010) and A Commentary on Numbers: Narrative, Ritual and Colonialism (2017). His current research interests include ancient Near Eastern history in the context of world history, the biblical books of Genesis-Joshua with their reception and ritual studies and other sociological and anthropological appoaches to the study of the ancient world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781138677036
• ISBN-10: 1138677035
• Artikelnr.: 57999118