Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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This volume offers a ground-breaking reassessment of the destructions that allegedly occurred at sites across the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and challenges the numerous grand theories that have been put forward to account for them. The author demonstrates that earthquakes, warfare, and destruction all played a much smaller role in this period than the literature of the past several decades has claimed, and makes the case that the end of the Late Bronze Age was a far less dramatic and more protracted process than is generally believed.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-10
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt703 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor404
FörlagLockwood Press
ISBN9781948488839

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It has become conventional (since the nineteenth century) to see around 1200 BCE—the end of the Late Bronze Age—as a time when in the Eastern Mediterranean world a great many cities were destroyed—often ascribed to a mass invasion by the Sea Peoples—empires collapsed, and earthquakes multiplied. M. scrutinizes this scenario and finds it wanting. This is a welcome corrective to a widespread but inadequately supported historical thesis. Lester L. Grabbe, 2025 SOTS book listBy going back to original reports and tracing citation chains back from claimed destructions, the book clearly shows that the dominant narrative of 'the collapse c. 1200 BC' is at least in part a modern myth and an artefact of scholarship.Middleton, Guy D., Antiquity, February 2024“This is an important investigation that needs to be taken account of by any historian of the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age period.” Lester L. Grabbe, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 48, no.5 (2024 SOTS book list)