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Author:   J. David Schloen
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Eisenbrauns
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   2.177kg
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9781575061610

ISBN 10:   1575061619
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   30 June 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Contributors Abbreviations Publications of Lawrence E. Stager 1. Lawrence Stager and Biblical Archaeology J. David Schloen 2. Solomon’s Patrimonial Kingdom: A View from the Land of Gilead Tristan J. Barako 3. The Dolphin Jug: A Typological and Chronological Assessment Manfred Bietak and Karin Kopetzky 4. Assyrians Abet Israelite Cultic Reforms: Sennacherib and the Centralization of the Israelite Cult Elizabeth Bloch-Smith 5. “Those Who Add House to House”: Household Archaeology and the Use of Domestic Space in an Iron II Residential Compound at Tell en-Na.beh Aaron J. Brody 6. More Light on Old Reliefs: New Kingdom Egyptian Siege Tactics and Asiatic Resistance Aaron A. Burke 7. Cores, Peripheries, and Ports of Power: Theories of Canaanite Development in the Early Second Millennium B.C.E. Susan L. Cohen 8. The Social Worlds of the Book of Job Michael D. Coogan 9. Telltale Remnants of Oral Epic in the Older Sources of the Tetrateuch: Double and Triple Proper Names in Early Hebrew Sources and in Homeric and Ugaritic Epic Poetry Frank Moore Cross 10. Merenptah’s “Israel,” the Bible’s, and Ours William G. Dever 11. Linchpins Revisited Trude Dothan and Alexandra S. Drenka 12. Cities, Villages, and Farmsteads: The Landscape of Leviticus 25:29–31 Avraham Faust 13. Destructions: Megiddo As a Case Study Israel Finkelstein 14. The Late Iron Age II Incense Altars from Ashkelon Seymour Gitin 15. Palmachim–Giv’at Ha’esev: A Navigational Landmark for Ancient Mariners? Ram Gophna and Shmuel Liphschitz 16. Wine for the Elite, Oil for the Masses: Some Aspects of Early Agricultural Technology in Cyprus Sophocles Hadjisavvas 17. The Dawn of an Age: Megiddo in the Iron Age I Baruch Halpern 18. Compositional Techniques in the Book of Haggai Paul D. Hanson 19. Lifting the Veil on a “Dark Age”: Tayinat and the North Orontes Valley during the Early Iron Age Timothy P. Harrison 20. Other Edens Ronald Hendel 21. The House of the Father at Iron I Tall al-’Umayri, Jordan Larry G. Herr 22. Israel’s Ancestors Were Not Nomads Theodore Hiebert 23. How Much Is That in ? Monetization, Money, Royal States, and Empires John S. Holladay 24. The Levitical Diaspora (I): A Sociological Comparison with Morocco’s Ahansal Jeremy M. Hutton 25. A Cypriot Workshop of Middle Bronze Age Askoi Vassos Karageorghis 26. Slavery in Antiquity Philip J. King 27. Ethnic Identity in Biblical Edom, Israel, and Midian: Some Insights from Mortuary Contexts in the Lowlands of Edom Thomas E. Levy 28. A Reconstruction of Achaemenid-Period Ashkelon Based on the Faunal Evidence David Lipovitch 29. Hazael, Birhadad, and ther. Aren M. Maeir 30. Divination at Ebla during the Old Syrian Period: The Archaeological Evidence Nicol. Marchetti 31. Egyptian Fingerprints at Late Bronze Age Ashkelon: Egyptian-Style Beer Jars Mario A. S. Martin 32. From the Buqê’ah to Ashkelon Daniel M. Master 33. The Iron Age Dwellings at Tell Qasile Amihai Mazar 34. The Armor of Goliath Alan Millard 35. Facts or Factoids? Some Historical Observations on the Trophy Inscription from Kition (KAI 288) Paul G. Mosca 36. Ashkelon under the Assyrian Empire Nadav Na’aman 37. The Built Tombs on the Spring Hill and the Palace of the Lords of Jericho (‘dmr r.’) in the Middle Bronze Age Lorenzo Nigro 38. A New Join of Fragments of the Baal Cycle Dennis Pardee 39. L’inscription phénicienne du pithos d’Amathonte et son contexte Émile Puech 40. A Fragmentary Tablet from Tel Aphek with Unknown Script Itamar Singer 41. Camels in Ur III Babylonia? Piotr Steinkeller 42. A Persian-period Hoard of Bullae from Samaria Ephraim Stern 43. Trade and Power in Late Bronze Age Canaan Michael Sugerman 44. East of Ashkelon: The Setting and Settling of the Judean Lowlands in the Iron Age IIA Ron E. Tappy 45. The Books of the Hebrew Bible As Material Artifacts Karel van der Toorn 46. The Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the First Temple Period: An Archaeologist’s View David Ussishkin 47. The Israelite mi.p..â, the Priestly Writings, and Changing Valences in Israel’s Kinship Terminology David S. Vanderhooft 48. Two New Hellenistic Lead Weights of the Tanit Series Samuel R. Wolff and Gerald Finkielsztejn 49. Behavioral Patterns in Transition: Eleventh-Century B.C.E. Innovation in Domestic Textile Production Assaf Yasur-Landau 50. Bedhat esh-Sha’ab: An Iron Age I Enclosure in the Jordan Valley Adam Zertal and Dror Ben-Yosef

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