This volume brings together a number of scholars who use archaeology as a tool to question the sometimes easy assumptions made by historians and biblical scholars about the past. It combines essays from both archaeologists and biblical scholars whose subject matter, whilst differing widely in both geographical and chronological terms, also shares a critical stance used to examine the relationship between 'dirt' archaeology and the biblical world as presented to us through written sources.
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
Eveline van der Steen is a Near Eastern archaeologist with a special interest the archaeology of the Southern Levant. She is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, UK. Jeannette Boertien is an archaeologist in the faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands Her research focuses on archaeological textiles and technological, social and religious aspects of textile production. Noor Mulder-Hymans is an independent scholar and classical archaeologist.
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This in many ways highly significant collection, which appreciatively measures the work of the honouree, is concluded with an index of authors and biblical references. Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , Volume 126, Book 3
