Historical biblical archaeology and the future : the new pragmatism / edited by Thomas E. Levy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levy, Thomas Evan

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Antiquities.

Bible.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xvi, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub. Ltd., 2010.

Contents:

Into the future : new trends in historical biblical archaeology

The new pragmatism : integrating anthropological, digital, and historical biblical archaeologies / Thomas E. Levy

Re-constructing biblical archaeology : towards an integration of archaeology and the Bible / Shlomo Bunimovitz and Avraham Faust

Future directions in the study of ethnicity in ancient Israel / Avi Faust

Biblical archaeology as social action in Israel : two case studies / David Ilan

The archaeology of the levant in North America : the transformation of biblical and Syro-Palestinian archaeology / Aaron Burke

Some applications

Biblical archaeology and Egyptology : Old and Middle Kingdom perspective / Miroslav Barta

New perspectives on Levantine Mortuary ritual : a cognitive interpretive approach to the archaeology of death / Aaron Brody

Under the shadow of the four-room house : biblical archaeology meets household archaeology in Israel / Assaf Yasur-Landau

The Philistines and their material culture in context : future directions of historical biblical archaeology for the study of cultural transmission / Ann Killebrew

Judha, Masos, and Hayil : the importance of etnohistory and oral traditions / Eveline J. van der Steen

Four pillars of the Iron Age low chronology / Daniel A. Frese and Thomas E. Levy

From text to turf

Texts in exile : towards an anthropological methodology for incorporating texts and archaeology / Tara Carter and Thomas E. Levy

Excavating the text of 1 Kings 9 : in search of the gates of Solomon / William Schniedewind

Culture, memory, and history : reflections on method in biblical studies / Ronald Hendel

Archaeology, the Bible, and history : the fall of the House of Omri and the origins of the Israelite state / Baruch Halpern

Integrating archaeology and texts : the example of the Qumran toilet / Jodi Magness

In perspective

Stones, bones, texts, and relevance or how I lost my fear of biblical archaeology and started enjoying it / Aren Maeir

A Bible scholar in the City of David / Richard Elliott Friedman

Books and stones and ancient Jewish history : a view from Camp David / David Goodblatt

The archaeology of Palestine in the post-biblical periods : the intersection of text and artifact / Jodi Magness

The changing place of biblical archaeology, exceptionalism or normal science / Alexander H. Joffe

Does biblical archaeology have a future? / William G. Dever.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781845532574

1845532570

9781845532581

1845532589

OCLC:

319064626

Publisher Number:

99940212458