Books by Emanuel Pfoh

'Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age' presents an explicitly anthropological perspective on politics and social relationships. An anthropological reading of the textual and epigraphic remains of the time allows us to see how power was constructed and political subordination was practised and expressed.

Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East, this study aims at providing various understandings on the emergence of Israel in ancient Palestine and the socio-political dynamics at work in the Levant during antiquity.