Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide
East I can honestly say that getting to know the ancient Israelites Philistines and Phoenicians can be a difficult task since there are so many things we don't know about them The Bible of course and few other ancient texts do give us insights into their world but even these records don't answer all of our questions The discoveries of archaeologists also shed light on the world of these peoples but archaeolo gists can provide only part of the picture So getting to know these ancient peoples is sort of like trying to put together a big jigsaw puzzle that is missing a lot of its pieces What makes this book so great is that it gives us the largest and most important pieces to the puzzle and shows us how to have fun putting them together Marian Broida introduces us firsthand to the Israelites Philistines and Phoenicians by showing us how to make food they might have eaten yummy and how to construct models of their ancient homes ships musical instruments and pottery She even shows us how to write in the ancient Israelite alpha bet a script that hasn't been taught to kids for over 2 000 years What's more and this your parents might like to know is that this book informs us about these ancient cultures and their religions with historical accuracy and sensitivity to the complex issues sur rounding the study of ancient Israel and its neigh bors This book then is interesting informative accurate and most of all it is fun So grab some
paint a little clay and oh yes a bunch of newspaper for the mess and let's get started Scott Noegel Professor of Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies University of Washington
Time Line his time line shows some of the important events in the lives of the ancient Israelites Phoenicians and Philistines Like this book it begins about 1200 B C E when the Israelites were settling in the hills of Canaan and ends about 600 years later when many Israelites returned home from captivity in Babylonia From the Bible you may know of the stories of Abraham Isaac and Jacob their wives Sarah Rebec ca Rachel and Leah and Moses who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt These stories took place before this time line begins All dates in this timeline are B C E before the year 1 Some people use the letters B C for such dates Why do we say B C E You can read about it on page XV1 The symbol in front of a date means about 1100 B C E means about 1 100 years before the year 1 In ancient times people didn't use the same kinds of systems for dates that we do today Modern schol ars have to estimate when some things occurred and often they disagree Don't be surprised if you find different dates elsewhere for some of these
Finally these groups of people were very busy This time line lists only a few of the most important events in their lives Mass made an emergei He entered and on the same The team in net
