Moab in the Iron Age: hegemony, polity, archaeology

Abstract

1. The thingness of the state 2. Hegemony, polity, identity 3. Land and story 4. Beginnings I : the Late Bronze Age 5. Beginnings II : the Early Iron Age 6. Structures and metaphors 7. Mesha and the naming of names 8. Replicative kingship 9. Local space in a global state 10. Once again, the state