The Fire Signals of Lachish: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin

Published by Penn State University Press 2011

The Fire Signals of Lachish

Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin

Edited by: Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575066295

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction: David Ussishkin Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Publications of David Ussishkin Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Indelible Impression: Petrographic Analysis of Judahite Bullae Eran Arie, Yuval Goren and Inbal Samet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Excavations at Tel Malḥata: An Interim Report Itzhaq Beit-Arieh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Close Yet Apart: Diverse Cultural Dynamics at Iron Age Beth-Shemesh and Lachish Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On: The Possible Destruction by Earthquake of Stratum VIA at Megiddo Eric H. Cline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Tel Azekah: A New Look at the Site and Its “Judean” Fortress Yehuda Dagan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Why Did Nebuchadnezzar II Destroy Ashkelon in Kislev 604 B.C.E? Alexander Fantalkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Tall al-Umayri in the Iron Age I Facts and Fiction with an Appendix on the History of the Collared Rim Pithoi Israel Finkelstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
From Megiddo to Tamassos and Back: Putting the “Proto-Ionic Capital” in Its Place Norma Franklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Voyage to Yarimuta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Iron Age IIA Occupational Phases in the Coastal Plain of Israel Zeʾev Herzog and Lily Singer-Avitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Distribution and Use of Storage Vessels in the Kingdom of Judah Hayah Katz and Avraham Faust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Inside the Walls of Nehemiah’s Jerusalem: Naboth’s Vineyard Ernst Axel Knauf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
The Evolution of the 8th-Century B.C.E. Jerusalem Temple André Lemaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
The Origin and Date of the Volute Capitals from the Levant Oded Lipschits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Comparative Aspects of the Aramean Siege System at Tell eṣ-Ṣāfi/Gath Aren M. Maeir and Shira Gur-Arieh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Egyptian-Type Pottery at Late Bronze Age Megiddo Mario A. S. Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Tel Reḥov in the Assyrian Period: Squatters, Burials, and a Hebrew Seal Amihai Mazar and Shmuel Aḥituv Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
The Shephelah according to the Amarna Letters Nadav Naʾaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Reconsidering the Buildings in Area A at Edomite Buseirah Ronny Reich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
The Persian Period City Wall of Jerusalem Margreet Steiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Phoenician Clay Masks from Tel Dor Ephraim Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
The Waters of Shiloah (Isaiah 8:5–8) H. G. M. Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
On the Toponymy of the Jezreel Valley and Adjacent Plains Ran Zadok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Reexamining Area DD at Megiddo Anabel Zarzecki-Peleg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Ruin Cults at Iron Age I Hazor Sharon Zuckerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Indexes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 416

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Published: June 23, 2011
ISBN: 9781575066295