Short Course Description
The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500 ? 1150 BCE) in known to be the first ?international? period in the history of the Levant in ancient times: it is characterized by imperial kingdoms controlling vast territories, international trade and diplomacy but also with an urban and demographic decline in Canaan. By the 12th century, the international powers that shaped the social and political history of the region collapsed, bringing with them the collapse of the entire socio-political system. The regeneration after the collapse will bring with it new socio-political forms, which are also known to us from the Hebrew Bible
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