Full Description
This volume brings together a number of scholars who use archaeology as a tool to question the assumptions too easily made by historians and biblical scholars about the past. It combines essays from both archaeologists and biblical scholars. While the subject matter across the two disciplines differs widely in both geographical and chronological area covered, they share a critical stance in examining the relationship between 'dirt' archaeology and the biblical world, as presented to us through written sources.
Contents
JORDAN
Meinders Dijkstra and Karel Vriezen
1. The Assyrian Province of Gilead and the 'Myth of the Empty Land'
Eva Kaptijn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2. The Late Bronze and Iron Age Cultural Landscape of the Eastern Jordan Valley: The Start of a Long Tradition
Gloria London, Seattle USA and Robert Schuster, University of Nebraska, USA
3. Organization of Pottery Production in the Iron Age: Evidence from Tell Hesban and Tell el-Umayri
Niels Groot, Utrecht, the Netherlands
4. Regional Interaction in Ammon During the Iron Age IIc: An Insight into Regional Exchange Through Ceramics from the Amman Citadel and Tell Deir Alla
Bruce Routledge et al, University of Liverpool, UK
5. A Late Iron Age I Ceramic Assemblage from Central Jordan: Integrating Form, Technology and Distribution
Larry Herr, Canadian University College, Canada
6. The Typology of Iron Age Cooking Pots at Tall al-?Umayri, Jordan
Michele Daviau, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
7. Recycling in the Ancient World: Potsherds and Mended Pots
Jeannette Boertien, University of Groningen, Netherlands
8. Public or Domestic? Temple, Text and Textile Production at Khirbet al-Mudayna in Moab
Noor Mulder, Maastricht, Netherlands
9. The Bread Ovens of Khirbet Mudayna al-Thamad
Lucas Petit, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Netherlands
10. Understanding the Pit People
Dinie Boas, Delft, Netherlands
11. Were the Casemates Ever Filled?
Piotr Bienkowski, Independent Scholar, UK
12. In Search of Edomite Burials
JERUSALEM
Koert van Bekkum, Theological University, Netherlands
13. 'The Situation is More Complicated': Archaeology and Text in the Historical Reconstruction of the Iron Age IIa Southern Levant
Zeidan Kafafi, Yarmouk University, Jordan
14. Jerusalem in the Bronze and the Beginning of the Iron Ages: Biblical Narratives, Literary Sources, the Archaeological Evidence and Margreet Steiner
Avraham Faust, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
15. In Jerusalem's Expansion during the Iron Age II
Norma Franklin, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel
16. Dispelling the Fog Around the Ophel
Izaak De Hulster, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
17. Colour Remains on Figurines from Jerusalem.
Cor de Vos, WWU Münster, Germany
18. Jerusalem: Why on Earth is it in Heaven?
Eveline Van der Steen, University of Liverpool, UK
19. Exploring Jerusalem in the 19th Century
Shimon Gibson, Charlotte University of the Holy Land, Israel
20. Charles Warren's Kidron Valley Tunnels, Bir Ayyub, and the Location of Biblical En Rogel
Raz Kletter, University of Helsinki, Finland
21. Archaeological voices from Jerusalem
