Bene Israel : Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant During the Bronze and Iron Ages in Honour of Israel Finkelstein
Leiden: Brill, 2008. First edition. Octavo. xx, 306pp. Index, including 29 leaves of plates (maps, archaeological ground plans, charts, drawings and photographs). Red buckram lettered in yellow. Frontispiece photo of Israel Finkelstein. Very tiny nick at bottom edge of front cover, but still a fine, as new copy.
This collection of twelve papers, dedicated to Professor Israel Finkelstein, deals with various aspects concerning the archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages. Although the area under discussion runs from southeastern Turkey (Alalakh) down to the arid zones of the Negev Desert, the main emphasis is on the Land of Israel. This collection provides the most recent evaluation of a number of thorny issues in Israeli archaeology during the Bronze and Iron Ages and specifically addresses chronology, state formation, identity, and agency. It offers, inter alia, a fresh look.
Contents: Urban land use changes on the southeastern slope of tel Megiddo during the Middle Bronze Age / Eran Arie -- The appearance of rock-cut bench tombs in Iron Age Judah as a reflection of state formation / Alexander Fantalkin -- Trademarks of the Omride builders? / Norma Franklin -- Continuity and change in the Late Bronze to Iron Age transition in Israel's coastal plain: a long term perspective / Yuval Gadot -- Permanent and temporary settlements in the South of the lower Besor region: two case studies / Dan Gazit -- The socioeconomic implications of grain storage in early Iron Age Canaan: the case of tel Dan / David Ilan -- A re-analysis of the archaeological evidence for the beginning of the Iron Age I / Yitzhak Meitlis -- Reassessing the Bronze and Iron Age economy: sheep and goat husbandry in the Southern Levant as a model case study / Aharon Sasson -- Settlement patterns of Philistine city-states / Alon Shavit -- Levantine standardized luxury in the late Bronze Age: waste management at tell Atchana (Alalakh) / Amir Sumaka 'i Fink -- Desert outsiders: extramural neighborhoods in the Iron Age Negev / Yifat Thareani-Sussely -- A message in a jug: Canaanite, Philistine, and Cypriot iconography and the "Orpheus jug" / Assaf Yasur-Landau.
Volume 31 in the Brill series, "Culture and History of the Ancient Near East." Fine. Item #51867
ISBN: 9789004152823
Price: $125.00