Tel Malḥata

Author : Itzhaq Beit-Arieh,Liora Freud
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575063881

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Tel Malḥata by Itzhaq Beit-Arieh,Liora Freud Pdf

Tel Malḥata: A Central City in the Biblical Negev presents the results of nine seasons of excavations—two by the first expedition and seven by the second. Tel Malḥata is an elliptical-shaped mound located in the eastern sector of the Arad–Beer-sheba Valley and spreads across some 18 dunams. Tel Malḥata is generally identified with biblical Moladah, one of the cities of Judah, although other identifications have been suggested. The Arabic name of the site, Tell el-Milḥ (“Hill of the Salt”), is apparently indicative of its association with the production and distribution of salt from the Dead Sea in more recent times. The many Bedouin graves on the upper terrace of the tell significantly hindered the planning of the excavations, and consequently the excavations were concentrated mainly where no graves were discerned. The two-volume report consists of 22 chapters that take the reader through six strata of civilization, ranging from the Middle Bronze Age to the early Byzantine period.

Author : Bradley L. Crowell
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780884145288

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Edom at the Edge of Empire by Bradley L. Crowell Pdf

A comprehensive history of a state on Judah’s border Edom at the Edge of Empire combines biblical, epigraphic, archaeological, and comparative evidence to reconstruct the history of Judah's neighbor to the southeast. Crowell traces the material and linguistic evidence, from early Egyptian sources that recall conflicts with nomadic tribes to later Assyrian texts that reference compliant Edomite tribal kings, to offer alternative scenarios regarding Edom's transformation from a collection of nomadic tribes and workers in the Wadi Faynan as it relates to the later polity centered around the city of Busayra in the mountains of southern Jordan. This is the first book to incorporate the important evidence from the Wadi Faynan copper mines into a thorough account of Edom's history, providing a key resource for students and scholars of the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Israel Finkelstein,Nadav Na'aman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : C.L. Crouch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004274693

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The Making of Israel by C.L. Crouch Pdf

In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exilic and post-exilic periods as well as scholarship which limits pre-exilic identity concerns to Josianic nationalism. The argument analyses the archaeological material from the southern Levant during Iron Age II, then draws on anthropological research to argue for an ethnic response to the economic, political and cultural change of this period. The volume concludes with an investigation into identity issues in Deuteronomy, highlighting centralisation and exclusive Yahwism as part of the deuteronomic formulation of Israelite ethnic identity.

Author : Graham I. Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Inscriptions, Hebrew
ISBN : 0521829992

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Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions by Graham I. Davies Pdf

Author : Paul S. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567708977

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Sennacherib and the War of 1812 by Paul S. Evans Pdf

This volume investigates the question of how both Assyria and Judah could remember the war of 701 BCE as their respective victory. Whilst surveying available evidences for historical reconstructions, Paul S. Evans compares the Sennacherib's Third Campaign with the War of 1812 between Canada and the USA as an example of disputed victory from military history. Evans examines Assyrian and biblical texts to evaluate the conflict and argues that rather than being intentionally deceptive in their accounts of the events, both sides had reasons to perceive the war as a victory. This examination of military narratives also illustrates how the fluctuating support for wartime leaders in 1812 is analogous to positive and negative oracles regarding Jerusalem's leadership during the war years. With differing opinions regarding the success of the Sennacherib's Third Campaign, this book presents an interesting discussion of the events and demonstrates how our understanding of the war between Assyria and Judah can be illuminated by military history.

Author : Omer Sergi
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628373455

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The Two Houses of Israel by Omer Sergi Pdf

The Two Houses of Israel: State Formation and the Origins of Pan-Israelite Identity bridges the gap between the biblical narrative of the great united monarchy ruled by David and Solomon and archaeological and historical reconstructions of a gradual, independent formation of Israel and Judah. Based on a thorough examination of the material remains and settlement patterns in the southern Levant during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age and on a review of the relevant historical sources, this book provides a detailed reconstruction of the ways in which Israel and Judah were formed as territorial polities and specifically how the house of David rose to power in Jerusalem and Judah. Omer Sergi further situates the stories of Saul and David in their accurate social and historical context in order to illuminate the historical conception of the united monarchy and the pan-Israelite ideology out of which it grew. Sergi provides a new history of the early Israelite monarchies, their formation, and the ways in which these social and political developments were commemorated in the cultural memory of generations to come.

Author : Kristine Henriksen Garroway,John W. Martens
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004423404

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Children and Methods by Kristine Henriksen Garroway,John W. Martens Pdf

In Children and Methods, Garroway and Martens bring together a collection of interdisciplinary essays addressing the topic of children in the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and ancient world to explore the new field of Childist Criticism.

Author : Nadav Na'aman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575065656

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Ancient Israel and Its Neighbors by Nadav Na'aman Pdf

Throughout the past three decades, Nadav Na’aman has repeatedly proved that he is one of the most careful historians of ancient Canaan and Israel. With broad expertise, he has brought together archaeology, text, and the inscriptional material from all of the ancient Near East to bear on the history of ancient Israel and the land of Canaan during the second and first millenniums B.C.E. Many of his studies have been published as journal articles or notes and yet, together, they constitute one of the most important bodies of literature on the subject in recent years, particularly because of the careful attention to methodology that Na’aman always has brought to his work. Collected here are 25 essays that focus particularly on ancient Israel’s relations with its neighbors and the forces inside the ancient nation that governed those relationships. Subjects range from the battle of Qarqar to the archaeology of the monarchy to the status of governors during the Persian Period.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1544 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435078789971

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Oded Lipschits
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646021741

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Age of Empires by Oded Lipschits Pdf

Storage jars of many shapes and sizes were in widespread use in the ancient world, transporting and storing agricultural products such as wine and oil, crucial to agriculture, economy, trade and subsistence. From the late 8th to the 2nd century BCE, the oval storage jars typical of Judah were often stamped or otherwise marked: in the late 8th and early 7th century BCE with lmlk stamp impressions, later in the 7th century with concentric circle incisions or rosette stamp impressions, in the 6th century, after the fall of Jerusalem, with lion stamp impressions, and in the Persian, Ptolemaic and Seleucid periods (late 6th–late 2nd centuries BCE) with yhwd stamp impressions. At the same time, several ad hoc systems of stamp impressions appeared: “private” stamp impressions were used on the eve of Sennacherib’s campaign, mwṣh stamp impressions after the destruction of Jerusalem, and yršlm impressions after the establishment of the Hasmonean state. While administrative systems that stamped storage jars are known elsewhere in the ancient Near East, the phenomenon in Judah is unparalleled in its scale, variety and continuity, spanning a period of some 600 years without interruption. This is the first attempt to consider the phenomenon as a whole and to develop a unified theory that would explain the function of these stamp impressions and shed new light on the history of Judah during six centuries of subjugation to the empires that ruled the region—as a vassal kingdom in the age of the Assyrian, Egyptian, and Babylonian empires and as a province under successive Babylonian, Persian, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid rule.

Author : Christopher B. Zeichmann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532656408

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Essential Essays for the Study of the Military in First-Century Palestine by Christopher B. Zeichmann Pdf

Though the Roman Empire has been a hot topic within New Testament studies in the twenty-first century, its military aspect has--strangely--been almost entirely neglected. This volume will fill that lacuna by reprinting pivotal, but difficult to access, essays on the topic from the past forty years. The book will help bring scholars up to speed on what Roman military experts have been saying on the matter and give a sense for key developments within the field over the last forty years. The contents of this book include a variety of pivotal essays, though most are difficult to find without access to a major research library.

Author : Gösta Werner Ahlström
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0800627709

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The History of Ancient Palestine by Gösta Werner Ahlström Pdf

In this magisterial work the history of the peoples of Palestine from the earliest times to Alexander's conquest is thoroughly sifted and interpreted. All available source material-textural, epigraphic, and archeological-is considered, and the approach taken aims at a dispassionate reconstruction of the major epochs and events by the analysis of social, political, military, and economic phenomena. The book, chronologically structured, is indispensable for the study of the Hebrew Bible and of the ancient Near East.

Author : Itzhaq Beit-Arieh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015043231037

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Tel ʻIra by Itzhaq Beit-Arieh Pdf

Author : John Barton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0415350905

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The Biblical World by John Barton Pdf

This book is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical setting, and social context of the Bible.