Confronting the Past: Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of William G. Dever

Published by Penn State University Press 2006

Confronting the Past

Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of William G. Dever

Edited by: Seymour (Sy) Gitin , J. Edward Wright and J. P. Dessel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065717

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William G. Dever is recognized as the doyen of North American archaeologist-historians who work in the field of the ancient Levant. He is best known as the director of excavations at the site of Gezer but has worked at numerous other sites, and his many students have led dozens of other expeditions. He has been editor of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, was for many years professor in the influential archaeology program at the University of Arizona, and now in retirement continues actively to write and publish. In this volume, 46 of his colleagues and students contribute essays in his honor, reflecting the broad scope of his interests, particularly in terms of the historical implications of archaeology.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
William G. Dever: Bibliography Wade Kotter Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Part 1 Archaeology
The Sad Fate of Statues and the Mutilated Statues of Hazor Amnon Ben-Tor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
An Archaeologist on Mars Giorgio Buccellati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Of Pots and Paradigms: Interpreting the Intermediate Bronze Age in Israel/Palestine Shlomo Bunimovitz and Raphael Greenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
A Decorated Ivory Lid from Tel Miqne–Ekron Trude Dothan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Har Resisim 126: An Ephemeral Early Bronze Age Site Barry M. Gittlen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Gezer Rectified: The Dating of the South Gate Complex James W. Hardin and Joe D. Seger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
An Early Iron Age I House with a Cultic Corner at Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan Larry G. Herr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Aphrodite/Astarte on Horseback Vassos Karageorghis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Planning a Paleolithic Picnic Albert Leonard Jr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
The Archaic Palace at Ebla: A Royal Building between Early Bronze Age IVB and Middle Bronze Age I Paolo Matthiae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Tel Beth-Shean and the Fate of Mounds in the Intermediate Bronze Age Amihai Mazar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Early Bronze Age IV Transitions: An Archaeometallurgical Study Suzanne Richard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
The Chipped Stone Assemblage from Be'er Resisim in the Negev Highlands: A Preliminary Study Steven A. Rosen, Sorin Hermon, Jacob Vardi and Yael Abadi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Podium Structures with Lateral Access: Authority Ploys in Royal Architecture in the Iron Age Levant Ilan Sharon and Anabel Zarzecki-Peleg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chariot Fittings from Philistine Ashkelon Lawrence E. Stager Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Goddesses and Cults at Tel Dor Ephraim Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Cypriot Anthropomorphic Figurines of a Certain Type Stuart Swiny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Part 2 Bible and Ancient Israel
Women and the Worship of Yahweh in Ancient Israel Susan Ackerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Purity Strategies and Political Interests in the Policy of Nehemiah Rainer Albertz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Proto-Globalization and Proto-Secularization in Ancient Israel Norman K. Gottwald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
The Miraculous Wine of Cana in Its Galilean Ceramic Context Baruch Halpern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
The Archaeology of Memory: King Solomon, Chronology, and Biblical Representation Ronald Hendel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Khirbet el-Qôm and Hebrew and Aramaic Epigraphy André Lemaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
The Ecological Consequences of a Siege: A Marginal Note on Deuteronomy 20:19–20 Aren M. Maier, Oren Ackermann and Hendrik J. Bruins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Hierarchy or Heterarchy? Archaeology and the Theorizing of Israelite Society Carol Meyers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Israel and Its Neighbors Then and Now: Revisionist History and the Quest for History in the Middle East Today Eric M. Meyers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Ostracon No. 7 from Arad Reconsidered Nadav Naª Na’aman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Looking for Bethel: An Exercise in Historical Geography Anson F. Rainey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
In Solomon’s Temple (1 Kings 6–7): Between Text and Archaeology Mark S. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Part 3 Ancient Near East
The Predecessors of the Hyksos Manfred Bietak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
“His Seed Is Not”: 13th-Century BCE Israel David Noel Freedman and David Miano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Solomon and Gezer Volkmar Fritz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Hezekiah’s Tribute, Long-Distance Trade, and the Wealth of Nations ca. 1,000–600 BC: A New Perspective John S. Holladay Jr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Gezer and Circumcision Philip J. King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Covenant and Blood Rituals: Understanding Exodus 24:3–8 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context Theodore J. Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Trade Relations between Mari and Hazor (State of Research, 2002) Abraham Malamat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Implicit Population Figures and Historical Sense: What Happened to 200,150 Judahites in 701 BCE Ziony Zevit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Indexes
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Index of Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	372
Index of Other Ancient Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 400

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Published: June 23, 2006
ISBN: 9781575065717