“I Should Speedily Escape into the Land of the Philistines” (1 Sam 27:1): Theoretical and Methodical Change in the Archaeology of Philistia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. A Retrospective on the Career and Impact of Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Archaeologist and Educator 1
5. Biblical Historical Geography
6. Asking for a Place: Identifying the Location of Biblical Eshta’ol 9
7. “And There Was Peace between Israel and the Amorites” (1 Sam 7:14): A Biblical and Archaeological View on Israelites and Canaanites in the Shephelah in Late Iron Age I 24
8. Finding Mash and His Brothers – The Historical Geography of the “Sons” of Aram (Gen 10:23; 1 Chr 1:17) 37
9. Bronze Age Canaan and Its Neighbors
10. Let’s Trade: Carnelian Beads in the Early and Intermediate Bronze Age Southern Levant 53
11. A Better Cut: Diachronic Trends of Butchering Patterns and Technology through the Early and Middle Bronze Ages at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan 67
12. The Zooarchaeology of Cult: The Animal Remains from Moshe Dothan’s Excavations of the Middle Bronze Age Canaanite Temple Complex at Nahariya, Israel 108
13. Comparing Holes for Ritual Activities at the Snefru Bent and Seila Pyramids 120
14. Domus et Urbs: Levantine Middle Bronze Age Jar-Burials as a Family Reaction to Reurbanization 133
15. Iron Age Israel and Its Neighbors
16. A Tale of Two Looms – Domestic Weaving at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath 143
17. The Food Was Heavenly: Reflections from the Northern Frontier on Divine and Royal Banquets in the Assyrian Empire 157
18. All in All, It’s Just Another Stone in the Wall: From Safi to Sicily, 12^th-Century Monumental Architecture in the Mediterranean 182
19. “The Restaurant at the End of . . . ”: A Discussion of Iron Age Funerary Meats from the Southern Levant 201
20. Multiple Aspects of Tribalism in Iron I Israel 226
21. “I Should Speedily Escape into the Land of the Philistines” (1 Sam 27:1): Theoretical and Methodical Change in the Archaeology of Philistia 238
22. The “Four-Room-House” Complex at Tell Dothan, Area A: An Analysis of Function, Demography, and Cultural Identity 249
23. “Will the Ax Boast Against the One Who Cuts with It?” The Use of Axes and Pickaxes in Iron Age Warfare 266
24. A Note on the Importance of the Name Manasseh as King of Judah 288
25. Ittai and Obed-Edom: The Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for the Presence of Gittite Refugees in Jerusalem 297
26. Second Temple Israel
27. Olive Processing and Ritual Purity in the “Place of the Oil Press”: Reexamining the 1st-Century Features and Functions of Jerusalem’s Gethsemane Grotto 313
28. Index 353