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1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface 1
4. Introduction 3
5. Ramat Raḥel—Excavation Staff 2005–2010 8
6. Section One: Introductory Chapters
7. Chapter One: Strategic Location, Natural Surroundings and Processes in Site Formation 10
8. Chapter Two: The Question of the Site’s Ancient Name 15
9. Chapter Three: History of Research 19
10. Section Two: Government and Administrative Center— Late Iron Age to the Early Hellenistic Period
11. Chapter Four: Historical Introduction to the First Building Phase—Judah under Assyrian Rule 35
12. Chapter Five: First Building Phase (Late 8th / Early 7th century BCE) 39
13. Chapter Six: Historical Introduction to the Second Building Phase– Judah under Egyptian and Babylonian Rule 57
14. Chapter Seven: Second Building Phase (Late 7th Century BCE) 60
15. Chapter Eight: Historical Introduction to the Third Building Phase—Judah under Persian Rule 95
16. Chapter Nine: Third Building Phase (Late 6th or 5th Century BCE) 98
17. Chapter Ten: Destruction and Obsolescence of the Administrative Center at Ramat Raḥel 117
18. Section Three: From Government Center to Jewish Village— Ramat Raḥel between the Hasmonean Period and the First Jewish–Roman War
19. Chapter Eleven: Fourth Building Phase— The Hasmonean and Early Roman Periods 119
20. Section Four: The Rural Settlement— Roman, Byzantine, and Umayyad Periods until the Days of Kibbutz Ramat Raḥel
21. Chapter Twelve: Fifth Building Phase— Late Roman and Byzantine Period Settlements 129
22. Chapter Thirteen: Abbasid to Ottoman Periods (660–1517 CE) 139
23. Chapter Fourteen: Coins and Hoards 144
24. Chapter Fifteen: Subterranean Space Survey in the Southern Ramat Raḥel Hilltop 149
25. Chapter Sixteen: “Landscape Archaeology” in the Western Slopes of Ramat Raḥel 151
26. Chapter Seventeen: Modern Period—the Kibbutz Ramat Raḥel Story 155
27. Conclusion: The Ramat Raḥel Excavations, and a Few Thoughts about the Significance of Archaeology for Understanding the History of Judah 165
28. Endnotes 167
29. Bibliography 171
30. List of Figures 176