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Tables of Contents for In the Service of the King
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Abbreviations
xii
Introduction
Thesis and Scope
1
3
Political Setting at the End of Iron Age I
4
5
Questions of Methodology
The Comparative Method in Biblical Studies
9
5
Historicity of the Deuteronomistic and Chronistic Sources
14
9
Epigraphic Sources
23
20
Unprovenienced Material
23
9
Paleographic Dating
32
4
Prosopography
36
7
Status-Related Titles
Son of the King
43
10
Servant of the King
53
10
Elders, Senior Officials
63
9
``Children,'' Junior Officials Raised at Court
72
9
Function-Related Titles
Minister over the Royal House
81
15
Scribe
96
14
Excursus: Scribes as Judicial Officers
108
2
Herald
110
11
``Companion,'' Confidant of the King
121
7
``Second'' to the King, Personal Escort
128
4
Advisor to the King
132
4
Minister over the Corvee
136
5
Prefect(s), Overseer of Prefects
141
9
Governor of the City
150
14
Excursus: The Term
158
6
Judge
164
8
Gatekeeper
172
6
Miscellaneous Designations
Household or Personal Steward
178
4
Estate Steward, Squire, Handmaid
182
10
``Officer''
192
4
``Eunuch,'' Palace Attendant
196
8
Aspects of Administration Revealed in Inscriptions
Land Grants, Supply Networks and Regional Administration
204
46
Samaria Ostraca
204
12
LMLK Impressions
216
19
Rosette Impressions
235
7
Arad and Other Judean Inscriptions
242
8
Systems of Accounting: Hieratic Numerals and Other Symbols
250
19
Conclusions
Royal Functionaries and the State-Organization
269
7
Foreign Influence on the Israelite Bureaucracy
276
5
Tables
A. 1. Chronological Index of Titles and Personal Names of Functionaries in the Bible and in Epigraphic Records
281
25
2. An Inventory of Personal Names with Titles Appearing on Published Unprovenienced Epigraphic Material
302
4
B. Hebrew Titles in the Biblical and Epigraphic Records and Their Foreign Analogues
306
2
C. Genealogies of Court Families
308
4
Map
Distribution Map of LMLK and Rosette Impressed Handles
312
1
Bibliography
313
31
Index of Biblical Sources Cited
344
8
General Index
352
11
Index of Foreign Terms
363