Israelite Studies

Ideas, seedling

Israelite Studies

Jewish studies is too narrow a frame. The whole Israelite story, north and south, across four continents.

I think Israelite studies should replace Jewish studies. Jewish studies is a narrow frame, and it warps what it looks at. Israelite studies would take in the full historical course of both northern Israelite society and southern Judean society, across the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

“Jewish” is a much later word for an older, larger people. Telling the story at its full size gives us a better understanding of Jewish history and of Israelite history itself, and it changes what we owe each other now. Promoting Israelite studies is one of my goals, even if I don’t yet know how to win the field over.

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