In the service of the king : officialdom in ancient Israel and Judah /

The primary focus of Nili Fox's study is an analysis of the titles and roles of civil officials and functionaries - including key ministers of the central government, regional administrators, and palace attendants - in Israel and Judah during the monarchic period. The nineteen titles she examin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fox, Nili Sacher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press, ©2000.
Colección:Monographs of the Hebrew Union College ; no. 23.
Temas:
To 70
Jews > Politics and government.
Jews > History > 1200-953 B.C.
Jews > History > 953-586 B.C.
Bureaucracy > Palestine > History.
Juifs > Politique et gouvernement.
Juifs > Histoire > 1200-953 av. J.-C.
Juifs > Histoire > 953-586 av. J.-C.
Bureaucratie > Palestine > Histoire.
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > History & Culture.
Bureaucracy.
Jews.
Manners and customs.
Bürokratie
Leiders.
Koningen (vorsten)
Palestine > Court and courtiers > Titles.
Palestine > Social life and customs > To 70 A.D.
Palestine > Mœurs et coutumes > Jusqu'à 70.
Middle East > Palestine.
Israel > Altertum
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Thesis and scope
  • Political setting at the end of Iron Age I
  • Questions of methodology
  • The comparative method in biblical studies
  • Historicity of the deuteronomistic and chronistic sources
  • Epigraphic sources
  • Unprovenienced material
  • Paleographic dating
  • Prosopography
  • Status-related titles
  • Son of the King
  • Servant of the king
  • Elders, senior officials
  • "Children," junior officials raised at Court
  • Function-related titles
  • Minister over the Royal House
  • Scribe
  • Excursus: Scribes as judicial officers
  • Herald
  • "Companion," confidant of the king
  • "Second" to the king, personal escort
  • Advisor to the king
  • Minister over the Corvee
  • Prefect(s), overseer of prefects
  • Governor of the city
  • Excursus: the term
  • Judge
  • Gatekeeper
  • Miscellaneous designations
  • Household or personal stewart
  • Estate steward, squire, handmaid
  • "Officer"
  • "Eunuch," palace attendant
  • Aspects of administration revealed in inscriptions
  • Land grants, supply networks and regional administration
  • Samaria Ostraca
  • LMLK impressions
  • Rosette impressions
  • Arad and other Judean inscriptions
  • Systems of accounting: hieratic numerals and other symbols
  • Conclusions
  • Royal functionaries and the state-organization
  • Foreign influence on the Israelite bureaucracy
  • Tables
  • A: 1: A chronological index of titles and personal names of functionaries in the Bible and in Epigraphic material
  • B. Hebrew titles in the biblical and epigraphic records and their foreign analogues
  • C.1-10: Genealogies of court families
  • Map
  • Distribution map of LMLK and Rosette impressed handles
  • Bibliography
  • Index of biblical sources cited
  • General index
  • Index of foreign terms.

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