Confronting the Past: Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of William G. Dever

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Confronting the Past

Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of William G. Dever

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2006

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William G. Dever is recognized as the doyen of North American archaeologist-historians who work in the field of the ancient Levant. He is best known as the director of excavations at the site of Gezer but has worked at numerous other sites, and his many students have led dozens of other expeditions. He has been editor of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, was for many years professor in the influential archaeology program at the University of Arizona, and now in retirement continues actively to write and publish. In this volume, 46 of his colleagues and students contribute essays in his honor, reflecting the broad scope of his interests, particularly in terms of the historical implications of archaeology.

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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Preface
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William G. Dever: Bibliography
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Wade Kotter

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Part 1 Archaeology
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The Sad Fate of Statues and the Mutilated Statues of Hazor
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Amnon Ben-Tor

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An Archaeologist on Mars
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Giorgio Buccellati

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Of Pots and Paradigms: Interpreting the Intermediate Bronze Age in Israel/Palestine
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Shlomo Bunimovitz and Raphael Greenberg

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A Decorated Ivory Lid from Tel Miqne–Ekron
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Trude Dothan

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Har Resisim 126: An Ephemeral Early Bronze Age Site
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Barry M. Gittlen

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Gezer Rectified: The Dating of the South Gate Complex
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James W. Hardin and Joe D. Seger

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An Early Iron Age I House with a Cultic Corner at Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan
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Larry G. Herr

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Aphrodite/Astarte on Horseback
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Vassos Karageorghis

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Planning a Paleolithic Picnic
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Albert Leonard Jr.

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The Archaic Palace at Ebla: A Royal Building between Early Bronze Age IVB and Middle Bronze Age I
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Paolo Matthiae

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Tel Beth-Shean and the Fate of Mounds in the Intermediate Bronze Age
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Amihai Mazar

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Early Bronze Age IV Transitions: An Archaeometallurgical Study
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Suzanne Richard

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The Chipped Stone Assemblage from Be'er Resisim in the Negev Highlands: A Preliminary Study
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Steven A. Rosen, Sorin Hermon, Jacob Vardi and Yael Abadi

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Podium Structures with Lateral Access: Authority Ploys in Royal Architecture in the Iron Age Levant
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Ilan Sharon and Anabel Zarzecki-Peleg

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Chariot Fittings from Philistine Ashkelon
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Lawrence E. Stager

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Goddesses and Cults at Tel Dor
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Ephraim Stern

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Cypriot Anthropomorphic Figurines of a Certain Type
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Stuart Swiny

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Part 2 Bible and Ancient Israel
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Women and the Worship of Yahweh in Ancient Israel
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Susan Ackerman

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Purity Strategies and Political Interests in the Policy of Nehemiah
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Rainer Albertz

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Proto-Globalization and Proto-Secularization in Ancient Israel
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Norman K. Gottwald

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The Miraculous Wine of Cana in Its Galilean Ceramic Context
215
Baruch Halpern

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The Archaeology of Memory: King Solomon, Chronology, and Biblical Representation
219
Ronald Hendel

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Khirbet el-Qôm and Hebrew and Aramaic Epigraphy
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André Lemaire

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The Ecological Consequences of a Siege: A Marginal Note on Deuteronomy 20:19–20
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Aren M. Maier, Oren Ackermann and Hendrik J. Bruins

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Hierarchy or Heterarchy? Archaeology and the Theorizing of Israelite Society
245
Carol Meyers

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Israel and Its Neighbors Then and Now: Revisionist History and the Quest for History in the Middle East Today
255
Eric M. Meyers

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Ostracon No. 7 from Arad Reconsidered
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Nadav Naª Na’aman

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Looking for Bethel: An Exercise in Historical Geography
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Anson F. Rainey

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In Solomon’s Temple (1 Kings 6–7): Between Text and Archaeology
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Mark S. Smith

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The Predecessors of the Hyksos
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Manfred Bietak

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“His Seed Is Not”: 13th-Century BCE Israel
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David Noel Freedman and David Miano

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Solomon and Gezer
303
Volkmar Fritz

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Hezekiah’s Tribute, Long-Distance Trade, and the Wealth of Nations ca. 1,000–600 BC: A New Perspective
309
John S. Holladay Jr.

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Gezer and Circumcision
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Philip J. King

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Covenant and Blood Rituals: Understanding Exodus 24:3–8 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context
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Theodore J. Lewis

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Trade Relations between Mari and Hazor (State of Research, 2002)
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Abraham Malamat

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Implicit Population Figures and Historical Sense: What Happened to 200,150 Judahites in 701 BCE
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Ziony Zevit

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Indexes
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Index of Authors
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Index of Scripture
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Index of Other Ancient Sources
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Confronting the Past

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

William G. Dever: Bibliography

The Sad Fate of Statues and the Mutilated Statues of Hazor

An Archaeologist on Mars

Of Pots and Paradigms: Interpreting the Intermediate Bronze Age in Israel/Palestine

A Decorated Ivory Lid from Tel Miqne–Ekron

Har Resisim 126: An Ephemeral Early Bronze Age Site

Gezer Rectified: The Dating of the South Gate Complex

An Early Iron Age I House with a Cultic Corner at Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan

Aphrodite/Astarte on Horseback

Planning a Paleolithic Picnic

The Archaic Palace at Ebla: A Royal Building between Early Bronze Age IVB and Middle Bronze Age I

Tel Beth-Shean and the Fate of Mounds in the Intermediate Bronze Age

Early Bronze Age IV Transitions: An Archaeometallurgical Study

The Chipped Stone Assemblage from Be'er Resisim in the Negev Highlands: A Preliminary Study

Podium Structures with Lateral Access: Authority Ploys in Royal Architecture in the Iron Age Levant

Chariot Fittings from Philistine Ashkelon

Goddesses and Cults at Tel Dor

Cypriot Anthropomorphic Figurines of a Certain Type

Women and the Worship of Yahweh in Ancient Israel

Purity Strategies and Political Interests in the Policy of Nehemiah

Proto-Globalization and Proto-Secularization in Ancient Israel

The Miraculous Wine of Cana in Its Galilean Ceramic Context

The Archaeology of Memory: King Solomon, Chronology, and Biblical Representation

Khirbet el-Qôm and Hebrew and Aramaic Epigraphy

The Ecological Consequences of a Siege: A Marginal Note on Deuteronomy 20:19–20

Hierarchy or Heterarchy? Archaeology and the Theorizing of Israelite Society

Israel and Its Neighbors Then and Now: Revisionist History and the Quest for History in the Middle East Today

Ostracon No. 7 from Arad Reconsidered

Looking for Bethel: An Exercise in Historical Geography

In Solomon’s Temple (1 Kings 6–7): Between Text and Archaeology

The Predecessors of the Hyksos

“His Seed Is Not”: 13th-Century BCE Israel

Solomon and Gezer

Hezekiah’s Tribute, Long-Distance Trade, and the Wealth of Nations ca. 1,000–600 BC: A New Perspective

Gezer and Circumcision

Covenant and Blood Rituals: Understanding Exodus 24:3–8 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context

Trade Relations between Mari and Hazor (State of Research, 2002)

Implicit Population Figures and Historical Sense: What Happened to 200,150 Judahites in 701 BCE

Index of Authors

Index of Scripture

Index of Other Ancient Sources

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