Israel and Empire

Aliou Niang is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Memphis Theological Seminary, TN, USA. Leo G. Perdue is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, TX, USA.

This volume serves as a useful guide to the discipline ... for readers who want to know more about what postcolonialism is and how it might be applied to study of the Bible ... This will be a good introduction to the subject for students and scholars for whom the subject is new.

• 1. Beginnings; 2. The Crisis of the Late Bronze Age and the Spawning of New Empires and Kingdoms (1250-1150 B.C.E.).; 3. Egyptian Imperialism: The Origins of Ancient Israel in Egypt (LBA); 4. Liberated Colonies and the Formation of a Tribal Nation: Israel's Entrance into Canaan and the Period of the Judges (Iron I); 5. Imperialism in Early Israel: The Davidic-Solomonic Empire (1000-922 B. C. E.); 6. Imperialism: The Establishment of the Northern Empire (922-722 B. C. E.); 7. Imperialism: The Assyrian Empire (745-612 B. C. E.); 8. Imperialism: The Babylonian Empire (612 - 539 B. C. E.); 9. Imperialism: The Persian Empire (539-332 B. C. E.); 10. Imperialism: The Greek Empire (332-164 B. C. E.); 11. Postcolonialism: the Maccabean Empire (164-63 B. C. E.); 12. Neo-Imperialism: The Roman Rule of Judea in the Late Republic (65 B. C. E.) and the Subsequent Empire (30 B. C. E.-72 C. E.); 13. A Post-Colonial Postscript.