Keywords
Northern Israel, Assyrians, tripartite classification, Israel's fall
Abstract
This article is centered on possible causes for the fall of Israel and, secondarily, Judah. The topic is not new. The very destruction of these ancient kingdoms may be the cause for the production of much of the Biblical literature that drives our interpretive enterprise. My proposal is that Max Weber’s socio political theories of power and domination, sometimes called the tripartite classification of authority, may provide a fruitful lens by which to understand some of the reasons Judah persisted for more than a century after the fall of Israel. Specifically, I wish to investigate whether the lack of routinization of charismatic authority was a contributing factor in Israel’s fall.1
Recommended Citation
Halverson, Taylor
(2018)
"Why Did Northern Israel Fall to the Assyrians? A Weberian Proposal,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 30, Article 14.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol30/iss1/14
