Studies In The Archaeology Of The Iron Age In Israel And Jordan

Author : Amihai Mazar
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567194176

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Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan by Amihai Mazar Pdf

Thirteen essays on the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan, covering settlement patterns, iconography, cult, palaeography and the archaeology of certain key sites. This volume offers an exceptionally informed update in a fast-moving area of discovery and interpretation. The first section deals with spatial archaeology and settlement patterns, all the papers based on the fieldwork by A. Zertal in Samaria, A. Ofer in Judah, G. Lehmann in the Akko Plain, and S. Gibson in various areas in the hill country of Israel. The second section covers religion and iconography. The two single Iron Age temples known today in Israel, at Dan and Arad, are discussed by A. Biran and Z. Herzog. R. Kletter and K. Prag discuss clay figurines and other cult objects; T. Ornan identifies Ishtar on a number of seals and on a silver pendant; and N. Franklin examines the iconography and meaning of the wall relief in Room V at Sargon's palace in Khorsabad. The last section includes three studies related to specific sites. M. Steiner considers urban development in Jerusalem during Iron Age II; A. Mazar presents data from Iron Age II Beth Shean, and P. Bienkowski and L. Sedman discuss finds from Buseirah, the capital of Edom.

Author : Eveline van der Steen,Jeannette Boertien,Noor Mulder-Hymans
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567655370

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Exploring the Narrative by Eveline van der Steen,Jeannette Boertien,Noor Mulder-Hymans Pdf

This volume brings together a number of scholars who use archaeology as a tool to question the sometimes easy assumptions made by historians and biblical scholars about the past. It combines essays from both archaeologists and biblical scholars whose subject matter, whilst differing widely in both geographical and chronological terms, also shares a critical stance used to examine the relationship between 'dirt' archaeology and the biblical world as presented to us through written sources.

Author : Aren M. Maeir,Itzhaq Shai,Chris McKinny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110628371

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The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Southern Canaan by Aren M. Maeir,Itzhaq Shai,Chris McKinny Pdf

The Late Bronze Age in the Levant is a period of much interest to archaeologists, historians and biblical scholars. This is a period with intense international relations, rich in ancient sources, which provide historical data for the period, and is a crucial formative period for the peoples and cultures who play central roles in the Hebrew Bible. Recent archaeological research in Israel and surrounding countries has provided new, exciting, and in some cases, groundbreaking finds, interpretations and understanding of this period. The fourteen papers in this volume represent the proceedings of a conference held at Bar-Ilan University in 2014 (with the additional of several invited papers not presented at the conference), which provide both overviews of Late Bronze Age finds from several important sites in Israel and surrounding countries, as well as several synthetic studies on the various issues relating to the period. These papers, by and large, represent a broad view of cuttting edge research in the archaeology of the ancient Levant in general, and on the Late Bronze Age specifically.

Author : John F. A. Sawyer,David J. A. Clines
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780905774497

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Midian, Moab, and Edom by John F. A. Sawyer,David J. A. Clines Pdf

Specialists from different fields converge on one relatively circumscribed and, until recently, largely neglected area of biblical archaeology. The eleven papers comprise archaeological reports from Buseira (Biblical Bozrah) and Wadi el Hasa in Moab, technical studies of Midianite and Edomite pottery, Iron Age burial practices and copper smelting in the Arabah, a semantic study of barzel ('iron') in Biblical Hebrew, and three essays of more general interest, on the history of the Ishmaelites and the Midianites.

Author : Lawrence E. Stager,Joseph A. Greene,Michael D. Coogan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004369801

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The Archaeology of Jordan and Beyond by Lawrence E. Stager,Joseph A. Greene,Michael D. Coogan Pdf

James A. Sauer was for many years the Director of the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan, leading it to the preeminent place it now occupies as a research institution dedicated to the archaeology and history of Transjordan. This volume honors him, with more than 50 contributions from colleagues and friends. With this volume, the Harvard Semitic Museum inaugurates a new series entitled "Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant."

Author : Seymour Gitin,William G. Dever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:813189924

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Recent Excavations in Israel by Seymour Gitin,William G. Dever Pdf

Author : Burton MacDonald,Randall W. Younker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9004107622

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Ancient Ammon by Burton MacDonald,Randall W. Younker Pdf

A state-of-the-art presentation on a people/nation of Transjordan known to readers of the Bible as a neighbor, and often an enemy, of first millennium B.C. Israel. Topics covered in the book's ten chapters include a review of archaeological research in Ammon (R.W. Younker); the emergence of the Ammonites (R.W. Younker); Ammonite territory and sites (B. MacDonald); Ammonite "monumental" and domestic architecture (M. Najjar and P.M.M. Daviau respectively), as well as burial customs and practices (K. Yassine); the ceramic traditions of Central Transjordan (G. London); Ammonite texts and language (W. E. Aufrecht); the religion of the Ammonites (W.E. Aufrecht); and the Ammonites in the late Iron Age and the Persian period (L.G. Herr). Figures and Tables accompany each chapter. In addition, the publication includes an "Excursus" on the salient features of Iron Age tribal kingdoms (O. LaBianca). Each chapter of "Ancient Ammon" includes extensive reference material. The publication is fully indexed.

Author : Alexander Fantalkin,Assaf Yasur-Landau
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047441946

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Bene Israel by Alexander Fantalkin,Assaf Yasur-Landau Pdf

This collection of new studies in the archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages is dedicated to Professor Israel Finkelstein and is written by twelve of his former students.

Author : Amihai Mazar,Ginny Mathias
Publisher : Sheffield Academic Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053140482

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Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan by Amihai Mazar,Ginny Mathias Pdf

These 13 essays, taken from papers given at a colloquium held at University College London in 1996, focus specifically on the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan.

Author : Herold Weiss,Siegfried H. Horn
Publisher : Berrien Spring, Mich. : Andrews University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015011909184

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The Archaeology of Jordan and Other Studies by Herold Weiss,Siegfried H. Horn Pdf

Author : Erez Ben-Yosef,Thomas E. Levy,Mohammad Najjar
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 1079 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781938770937

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New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan by Erez Ben-Yosef,Thomas E. Levy,Mohammad Najjar Pdf

Situated south of the Dead Sea, near the famous Nabatean capital of Petra, the Faynan region in Jordan contains the largest deposits of copper ore in the southern Levant. The Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project (ELRAP) takes an anthropological-archaeology approach to the deep-time study of culture change in one of the Old World's most important locales for studying technological development. Using innovative digital tools for data recording, curation, analyses, and dissemination, the researchers focused on ancient mining and metallurgy as the subject of surveys and excavations related to the Iron Age (ca. 1200-500 BCE), when the first local, historical state-level societies appeared in this part of the eastern Mediterranean basin. This comprehensive and important volume challenges the current scholarly consensus concerning the emergence and historicity of the Iron Age polity of biblical Edom and some of its neighbors, such as ancient Israel. Excavations and radiometric dating establish a new chronology for Edom, adding almost 500 more years to the Iron Age, including key periods of biblical history when David, Solomon, and the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I are alleged to have interacted with Edom. Included is a 7 gigabyte DVD with over 55,000 files of additional data and photographs from the project.

Author : Israel Finkelstein,Nadav Na'aman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066295

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The Fire Signals of Lachish by Israel Finkelstein,Nadav Na'aman Pdf

In this volume honoring Tel Aviv University archaeologist David Ussishkin, colleagues and students representing some of the major names in the field today present 25 essays on a variety of topics of interest to the honoree. The contributions cover a range of periods from the Late Bronze Age through the Persian period and disparate subjects such as Judahite bullae, destruction levels at Megiddo, a diversity of results from various tells in Israel (and one in Jordan), Egyptian influence on Canaan, the city of Jerusalem and its temple, and much on the archaeology of the Shephelah, an area of particular interest to the honoree—who is best known for his excavations at Tell ed-Duweir, the site of biblical Lachish. The volume takes its title from a reference in one of the Lachish ostraca. From 1966 until his retirement in 2004, David Ussishkin taught in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University. Between 1975 and 1978, he served as Chair of the Department, and between 1980 and 1984 as the Director of the Institute of Archaeology. In 1996, he was nominated incumbent of the Austria Chair in Archaeology of the Land of Israel in the Biblical Period. He served as the editor of Tel Aviv: The Journal of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University for 30 years.

Author : Kathleen M. Kenyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UCAL:B3447177

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Archaeology in the Holy Land by Kathleen M. Kenyon Pdf

The emphasis in this book is on the first word in its title, archaeology. It does not claim to be a complete history, for in the historical period literary evidence can give a much more detailed political, religious and economic picture than has here been attempted. But nevertheless, a story of Palestine is the framework of the book, with the emphasis upon the contribution that archaeology can make. Down to c. 3000 B.C., archaeology alone can write the story. As the story is gradually merged into history, archaeology still plays a very large part. Only in the first millennium B.C. can history provide a reasonably consecutive story, and even then it would remain a one-sided, unbalanced story without the help of archaeology. This book therefore aims at showing the evidence that writes the story for the prehistoric period and in the historic periods concentrates on the evidence which supplements the written record, using this only as a background for the archaeological material. An excellent book has already been written by Professor Albright on the archaeology of Palestine. But this appeared in 1949, and gave the picture provided by pre-war archaeology, for active field archaeology was virtually at a standstill between 1936 and 1952. Since then much has happened, for Palestinian archaeology in both Jordan and Israel is an extremely live affair, as all branches of archaeology should be. The great modifications and amplifications for which fresh discoveries have provided the evidence is the justification for a new book.

Author : Ralph K. Hawkins
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066745

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The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal by Ralph K. Hawkins Pdf

In Josh 8:30–35, Israel constructs an altar on Mt. Ebal in fulfillment of the command of Deut 27:1–8. This structure had very important social, political, and religious implications for Israel, for it was the first structure to be built after the people entered the land of Canaan. Once the altar was completed, sacrifices were to be offered on it, and a renewal of the covenant was to be carried out (patterned after the ritual of Deut 31:9–13). This covenant renewal was necessary to integrate the people into the covenant who had not been a part of the Sinai experience. The event was significant enough to establish nearby Shechem as the tribal league shrine, and it was the first political and religious ceremony that the Israelites undertook following their entry into the land. As a covenant ratification, it could be described as their ratification as a nation. The altar on Mt. Ebal and its concomitant ceremony were, therefore, according to the claims of the Hebrew Bible, of supreme importance in the life of ancient Israel. In 1980, during the survey of the territory of Manasseh, Israeli archaeologist Adam Zertal discovered a site on Mt. Ebal dating to the period of Iron I, during which the Israelites began to sedentarize in the central hill country of Canaan. The site was excavated over eight seasons, from 1982 to 1989, under the auspices of the University of Haifa and the Israel Exploration Society. In 1985, Zertal published an article in which he suggested that the structure on Ebal may have been the altar of Josh 8:30–35. In The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal, Ralph Hawkins reviews the excavation on Mt. Ebal and its results, including the scarabs, seals, and animal bones found there. He examines the architecture of the site in relation to Mesopotamian watchtowers, altars, and the descriptions of altars in mishnaic materials, Ezekiel, and Deuteronomic passages. This fascinating book examines the Mt. Ebal site using a comparative method for both the physical data and the textual data. The site and its artifacts are analyzed and then compared with alternative proposals and literary traditions. The site is placed in its broader regional context in order to determine how it might relate to the larger settlement picture of Iron Age I. The primary purpose is to examine the data with a view to determining the nature and function of the site and its possible relation to Josh 8:30–35. A compelling read for biblical and archaeological students and scholars, who will better be able to envision sites of past events.

Author : Oded Lipschits,Aren M. Maeir
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575064871

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The Shephelah during the Iron Age by Oded Lipschits,Aren M. Maeir Pdf

The area of the Judean Foothills – the biblical Shephelah – has in recent years become one of the most intensively excavated regions in the world. Numerous projects, at sites of different types and utilizing various methodological approaches, are actively excavating in this region. Of particular importance are the discoveries dating to the Iron Age, a period when this region was a transition zone between various cultures—Philistine, Canaanite, Judahite, and Israelite. The current volume includes reports from eight of the excavations currently being conducted in the region (Azekah, Beth Shemesh, Gezer, Khirbet Qeiyafa, Tel Burna, Tel Halif, Tell es-Safi/Gath, and Tel Zayit), as well as a general study of the region by Ido Koch. The importance of this volume lies not only in the fact that it collects up-to-date reports on most of the current excavations in the region but also demonstrates the lively, at times even boisterous, scholarly discussions taking place on various issues relating to the archaeology and history of the Iron Age Shephelah and its immediate environs. This volume serves as an excellent introduction to current research on the Iron Age in this crucial zone and also serves as a reflection of current trends, methodologies, and approaches in the archaeology of the Southern Levant.