Archaeological discoveries in the Holy Land. / Compiled by The Archaeological Institute of America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archaeological Institute of America.

Contributor:

Pritchard, James B. (James Bennett), 1909-1997.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel--Antiquities.

Israel.

Antiquities.

Jordan--Antiquities.

Jordan.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Rena (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 220 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bonanza Books, [1967]

Contents:

Introduction / by James B. Pritchard

Before the Bible. The dawn of history in Southern Palestine / by Jean Perrot; Beidha: an early Neolithic Village in Jordan / by Diana Kirkbride; Jericho: oldest walled town / by Kathleen M. Kenyon; The cave of the treasure / by Pessah Bar-Adon; The cemetery at Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan / by Paul W. Lapp; The Canaanite-Hyksos City at Tell Nagila / by Ruth Amiran and A. Eitan; Rock engravings in the Central Negev / by Emmanuel Anati

Biblical Cities and Temples. The rise and fall of Hazor / by Yigael Yadin; Excavations on the Oasis of Engedi / by Benjamin Mazar; The itadel of Ramat Rahel / by Yohanan Aharoni; Arad: an early Bronze Age City and a Biblical Citadel / by Ruth Amiran and Yohanan Aharoni; A reconstruction of Solomon's Temple / by J. Kaplan; Six Campaigns at Biblical Shechem / by James F. Ross and Lawrence E. Toombs; Ashdod: a city of the Philistine Pentapolis / by Moshe Dothan; Gibeon: where the sun stood still / by James B. Pritchard

Post-Biblical Palestine. The Nabataeans in Petra / by Crystal M. Bennett; The scrolls from the Judaean Desert / by Frank M. Cross, Jr.; Masada: a zealot fortress / by Yigael Yadin; The Necropolis of Beth She'arimn / by N. Avigad; Castles in Zin / by Harris Dunscombe Colt; The Umayyad Palace of Khirbat al-Mafjar / by Oleg Grabar; The Hospice of the Knights of St. John in Akko / by Zeev Goldmann.

Notes:

"This edition published by Bonanza Books a division of Crown Publishers, Inc. by arrangement with The Archaeological Institute of America."

"Designed by Winston Potter."

The present volume is a record of approximately twenty years, a witness to the flowering of archaeology in the Holy Land."--Introduction.

Text printed in two columns.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection has autograph of "Rena Potok" with pressed flower on stem laid in.

ISBN:

0517R00300

OCLC:

547268