Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Charting the course : the relationship between text and artifact
  • Archaeology and the religion of Israel / Barry M. Gittlen
  • Religion up and down, out and in / Jonathan Z. Smith
  • Theology, philology, and archaeology : in the pursuit of ancient Israelite religion / William G. Dever
  • Philology and archaeology : imagining new questions, begetting new ideas / Ziony Zevit
  • pt. 2. Prayers in clay : a multidisciplinary approach to figurines
  • Israelite figurines : a view from the texts / Karel van der Toorn
  • On the use of images in Israel and the ancient Near East : a response to Karel van der Toorn / Jack M. Sasson
  • pt. 3. The mythology of sacred space : structure and structuralism
  • Preamble to a temple tour / Ziony Zevit
  • Solomon's temple : the politics of ritual space / Elizabeth Bloch-Smith
  • The four-horned altar and sacred space : an archaeological perspective / Seymour Gitin
  • pt. 4. Death in the life of Israel
  • Ritual as symbol : modes of sacrifice in Israelite religion / Baruch A. Levine
  • Death in the life of Israel / Elizabeth Bloch-Smith
  • Tombs and offerings : archaeological data and comparative methodology in the study of death in Israel / Wayne T. Pitard
  • How far can texts take us? Evaluating textual sources for reconstructing ancient Israelite beliefs about the dead / Theodore J. Lewis.