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Palace-Clan Relations in the Bronze and Iron Ages Levant: Textual and Material Approaches

Palace-Clan Relations in the Bronze and Iron Ages Levant: Textual and Material Approaches

Bezzel, Hannes
Krause, Joachim J.
Covello-Paran, Karen

Hardcover

Series: Archaeology of the Biblical Worlds, Book 6

Religion General Ancient History GeneralGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 3111405516
ISBN13: 9783111405513
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Aug 15 2025
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Recent studies have demonstrated that ancient Near Eastern societies considered themselves as part of one social fabric, divided not by mode of life or place of residence, but according to traditional associations of kin. Kinship relations appear to maintain their essential integrity over long periods of time, even within complex political organizations. In the past it was common to view state formation as an evolutionary process - from tribe to state - during which former kinship relations and tribal identities dissolve in face of the political identity imposed by the state. Today, however, it seems that there were no evolutionary relations between the tribe and the state, as they both represent identities that coexist at the same time. It is against this background that a common structural element of ancient Levantine polities emerges: their fragmented nature, mostly based on an overarching concept of kinship.

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