Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. Preface ix
5. William G. Dever: Bibliography xiii
6. Part 1 Archaeology
7. The Sad Fate of Statues and the Mutilated Statues of Hazor 1
8. An Archaeologist on Mars 17
9. Of Pots and Paradigms: Interpreting the Intermediate Bronze Age in Israel/Palestine 23
10. A Decorated Ivory Lid from Tel Miqne–Ekron 33
11. Har Resisim 126: An Ephemeral Early Bronze Age Site 41
12. Gezer Rectified: The Dating of the South Gate Complex 51
13. An Early Iron Age I House with a Cultic Corner at Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan 61
14. Aphrodite/Astarte on Horseback 75
15. Planning a Paleolithic Picnic 81
16. The Archaic Palace at Ebla: A Royal Building between Early Bronze Age IVB and Middle Bronze Age I 85
17. Tel Beth-Shean and the Fate of Mounds in the Intermediate Bronze Age 105
18. Early Bronze Age IV Transitions: An Archaeometallurgical Study 119
19. The Chipped Stone Assemblage from Be'er Resisim in the Negev Highlands: A Preliminary Study 133
20. Podium Structures with Lateral Access: Authority Ploys in Royal Architecture in the Iron Age Levant 145
21. Chariot Fittings from Philistine Ashkelon 169
22. Goddesses and Cults at Tel Dor 177
23. Cypriot Anthropomorphic Figurines of a Certain Type 181
24. Part 2 Bible and Ancient Israel
25. Women and the Worship of Yahweh in Ancient Israel 189
26. Purity Strategies and Political Interests in the Policy of Nehemiah 199
27. Proto-Globalization and Proto-Secularization in Ancient Israel 207
28. The Miraculous Wine of Cana in Its Galilean Ceramic Context 215
29. The Archaeology of Memory: King Solomon, Chronology, and Biblical Representation 219
30. Khirbet el-Qôm and Hebrew and Aramaic Epigraphy 231
31. The Ecological Consequences of a Siege: A Marginal Note on Deuteronomy 20:19–20 239
32. Hierarchy or Heterarchy? Archaeology and the Theorizing of Israelite Society 245
33. Israel and Its Neighbors Then and Now: Revisionist History and the Quest for History in the Middle East Today 255
34. Ostracon No. 7 from Arad Reconsidered 265
35. Looking for Bethel: An Exercise in Historical Geography 269
36. In Solomon’s Temple (1 Kings 6–7): Between Text and Archaeology 275
37. Part 3 Ancient Near East
38. The Predecessors of the Hyksos 285
39. “His Seed Is Not”: 13th-Century BCE Israel 295
40. Solomon and Gezer 303
41. Hezekiah’s Tribute, Long-Distance Trade, and the Wealth of Nations ca. 1,000–600 BC: A New Perspective 309
42. Gezer and Circumcision 333
43. Covenant and Blood Rituals: Understanding Exodus 24:3–8 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context 341
44. Trade Relations between Mari and Hazor (State of Research, 2002) 351
45. Implicit Population Figures and Historical Sense: What Happened to 200,150 Judahites in 701 BCE 357
46. Indexes
47. Index of Authors 367
48. Index of Scripture 372
49. Index of Other Ancient Sources 375