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The archaeology of Israel : constructing the past, interpreting the present /

This challenging volume offers a timely and extensive overview of the current state of archaeology in Israel. Contributed by leading scholars, the essays focus on current problems and cutting-edge issues, ranging from reviews of ongoing excavations to new analytical approaches. Of interest not only...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies (Lehigh University)
Otros Autores: Silberman, Neil Asher, 1950-, Small, David B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1997.
Colección:Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 237.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Neil Asher Silberman and David B. Small
  • Politics and archaeology / Amos Elon
  • Archaeology, political culture, and culture in Israel / Yaacov Shavit
  • Structuring the past : Israelis, Palestinians, and the symbolic authority of archaeological monuments / Neil Asher Silberman
  • Historical imaginings, ideological gestures : W.F. Albright and the 'reasoning faculties of man' / Burke O. Long
  • Tel Miqne-Ekron : an Iron Age I Philistine settlement in Canaan / Trude Dothan
  • The Yigael Yadin memorial excavations at Hazor, 1990-93 : aims and preliminary results / Amnon Ben-Tor
  • Discoveries at Tel Dor / Ephraim Stern
  • The excavations at Tel Beth Shean during the years 1989-94 / Amihai Mazar
  • The revolutionary effects of archaeology on the study of Jewish history : the case of the ancient synagogue / Lee I. Levine
  • Jewish ritual baths : interpreting the digs and the texts : some issues in the social history of Second Temple Judaism / Benjamin G. Wright III
  • Pots and people revisited : ethnic boundaries in the Iron Age I / Israel Finkelstein
  • Can pig remains be used for ethnic diagnosis in the ancient Near East? / Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish
  • Group identification and ethnicity in the construction of the early state of Israel : from the outside looking in / David B. Small
  • Philology, theology, and archaeology : what kind of history do we want, and what is possible? / William G. Dever
  • Text and artifact : two monologues? / Baruch Halpern.