Book
Ancient Israel: its life and institutions
McGraw-Hill • New York • Published In 1961 • Pages:
By: Vaux, Roland de, McHugh, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is a thorough examination of the customs of Ancient Israel, drawing on three major sources: the Bible, the archaeology and history of the Ancient Near East, and current ethnography of the Middle East. The author describes in detail the organization and practices of family, state, military and religious institutions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Religious and educational structures
- Real property
- Borrowing and lending
- Inheritance
- Occupational specialization
- Personal names
- Gender status
- Slavery
- Marriage
- Household
- Clans
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Territorial hierarchy
- Government institutions
- Burial practices and funerals
- Legal norms
- Sanctions
- Judicial authority
- Trial procedure
- Armed forces
- Military technology
- Instigation of war
- Religious beliefs
- Priesthood
- Organized ceremonial
- Weights and measures
- Ordering of time
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Israelites
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard: 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2000–500 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Israel; Palestinian territories
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Roland de Vaux ; translated by John McHugh
- Translation of Les institutions de l'Ancien Testament.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-552)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 61012360
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jews--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.
- Judaism--History--To 70 A.D.