Tag: nomadic culture
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Nomads and City Dwellers Institutions and Worldview
Reading Time: 16 minutes Ancient Israel: Its Life and InstitutionsRoland de Vaux The Bible is not reliable for ethnographic information. This is especially true in regard to nomads’ and city dwellers’ institutions and worldview. Sheep-breeding tribes who are beginning to settle down were formerly camel-breeders who had begun to raise cattle so they…
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The Community of Ancient Israel
Reading Time: 3 minutesRobert Bellah wrote in “The Broken Covenant” that American Civil Religion helped form a unified nation. Bellah assumed civil religion was necessary because America was the world’s first ‘new’ nation, a nation of unrelated immigrants who do not share a common history or religion as the populations of other countries do. However,…