Kingdom of Israel, traditions and clothes

[lucre_noin]

Clothes, weapons and matrimonial traditions of the 1000 a.C. in the Kingdom of Israel

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[sarraceniaceae]

Actually, the Bible's pretty much the best resource on this area - but you'd probably need a very good Bible with lots of scholarly footnotes and a translation that takes care to keep it historically accurate rather than allowing modernizations to slip in. It's a written product of ancient Israel, so it has most of our information about it. Archaeology helps, but it's a sidenote. So if it's a fairly small story, you'd probably be okay with just basing it off what you pick up from looking at the culture in the Bible.

Other than that, here's some books that you might want to look into if it's a larger story:
Ancient Israel: Its Life and Institutions
Life in Biblical Israel
The Hebrew Bible: A Socio-Literary Introduction with CD-ROM

[lucre_noin]

Unfortnately I have only a little Italian Bible translated by the CEI and it is much more interested in 'religious beliefs' than 'historical accuracy'.
Thank you for the titles : D the second one it's particolar interesting. I don't know if I'll manage to buy them soon but I'll add them in my list of foreign books <3

[corvideye]

If you google "Bible in Italian" there seem to be a lot of hits, perhaps an online one will be better?

[lucre_noin]

I'll try : D
I always find a nice book titles "Daily life in Biblical times" :D

[corvideye]

Why is archaeology a side note? That seems the logical place to get information on the material culture such as buildings, personal possessions, depictions of clothing, etc... the stuff the Bible doesn't describe in detail, because that was obvious to people of the time.

[sarraceniaceae]

Two reasons. One is that in my experience from attempting to read archaeology history books, they do a great job of telling you what durable things were around then and, say, how the houses were laid out, but nothing for getting into the people of the time's head without a lot of extrapolation. And, honestly, while archaeology can confirm and supplement the biblical stuff and put it into a better context, I can't imagine trying to write a story set in a culture from archaeological evidence alone and getting more than the smallest details right. So in the context of trying to write a story, yes, I'd call archaeology a sidenote