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Near Eastern Archaeology A Reader / edited by Suzanne Richard.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible.
- Bible--Antiquities.
- Weapons, Ancient.
- Underwater archaeology.
- Synagogues.
- Semitic languages.
- Scarabs.
- Samaritans.
- Numismatics.
- Mosaics.
- Metal-work.
- Jewish art.
- Jewelry.
- Iron age.
- Hieroglyphics.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Church buildings.
- Ceramics.
- Canaanites--Religion.
- Burial.
- Bronze age.
- Architecture, Ancient.
- Archaeology--Technological innovations.
- Archaeology and religion.
- Archaeology.
- Antiquities.
- Archeologie--Moyen-Orient--Histoire.
- Archeologie.
- Metal-work--Middle East--History.
- Weapons, Ancient--Middle East--History.
- Ceramics--Middle East--History.
- Jewelry--History.
- Mosaics--Israel.
- Scarabs--Middle East--History.
- Canaanites--Religion--History.
- Canaanites.
- Synagogues--Middle East--History.
- Samaritans--Middle East--History.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Middle East--History.
- Burial--Middle East--History.
- Church buildings--Israel--History.
- Iron age--Middle East.
- Bronze age--Middle East.
- Jewish art--Israel--History.
- Jewish art--History.
- Hieroglyphics--History.
- Semitic languages--History.
- Archaeology--Israel.
- Underwater archaeology--Mediterranean Sea.
- Numismatics--Middle East--History.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Middle East.
- Architecture, Ancient--Middle East--History.
- Archaeology--Middle East--History.
- Middle East.
- Mediterranean Sea.
- Israel.
- Moyen-Orient--Antiquites.
- Moyen-Orient.
- Middle East--Antiquities.
- Israel--Antiquities.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (506 p.)
- Edition:
- Paperback ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2012, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- More than 60 essays by major scholars in the field have been gathered to create the most up-to-date and complete book available on Levantine and Near Eastern archaeology. -- Publisher description.
- Contents:
- II. Cultural phases and associated topics:
- The paleolithic in Syria-Palestine / Geoffrey A. Clark and Nancy R. Coinman
- The neolithic period / Gary O. Rollefson
- Prehistoric chipped-stone technology / Gary O. Rollefson
- The chalcolithic of the Southern Levant / Thomas E. Levy
- The Nahal Mishmar hoard from the Judean desert / Miriam Tadmor
- Negev / Mordechai Haiman
- The early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant / Suzanne Richard
- Southern Sinai in the early Bronze Age II / Itzak Beit-Arieh
- Theory in archaeology : culture change at the end of the early Bronze Age / Jesse C. Long, Jr.
- Archaeology of the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan / Walter E. Rast
- The middle Bronze Age (circa 2000-1500 B.C.E.) / David Ilan
- Canaanite religion / Beth Alpert Nakhai
- The late Bronze Age / Albert Leonard, Jr.
- El-Amarna texts / Victor H. Matthews
- Trade and exchange in the Levant / Eric H. Cline
- The Iron Age in the Southern Levant / Randall W. Younker
- Religion and cult in the Levant / William G. Dever
- Goddesses / Susan Ackerman
- Syria-Palestine in the Persian period / Charles E. Carter
- The Samaritans / Terry Giles
- The Hellenistic period / Andrea M. Berlin
- Nabateans / David F. Graf
- Classical test sources in the Levant / David F. Graf
- Jewish art and iconography in the land of Israel / Rachel Hachlili
- Synagogues in the land of Israel / Steven Fine
- Golan synagogues / Zevi ʼUri Maʻoz
- Early Christian iconography / Linda Sue Galate
- Early Christian churches in Israel / Joseph Patrich.
- I. Theory, method, and context:
- Geography of the Levant / Barry J. Beitzel
- Paleoenvironments of the Levant / Arlene Miller Rosen
- Archaeozoology / Paula Wapnish and B. Hesse
- Paleoethnobotany / Peter Warnock
- Method and theory in Syro-Palestinian archaeology / John S. Holladay, Jr.
- Bible and archaeology / Walter E. Rast
- Levantine archaeology / Thomas W. Davis
- Text sources for Levantine archaeology : the Bible / J. Maxwell Miller
- Writing and scripts (with special reference to the Levant) / Gary A. Rendsburg
- Semitic languages (with special reference to the Levant) / Gary A. Rendsburg
- Writing : the archaeology of writing (writing materials) / Alan Millard
- Northwest Semitic epigraphic sources / Alan Millard
- Chronology of the Southern Levant / William G. Dever
- Survey of preclassical architecture in the Levant / G.R.H. Wright
- Bronze and iron age burials and funerary customs in the Southern Levant / Elizabeth Bloch-Smith
- Subsistence pastoralism / Oystein S. Labianca
- Agriculture / David C. Hopkins
- Roads and highways / David A. Dorsey
- Nautical archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean / Deborah N. Carlson
- Ethnography/ethnoarchaeology / Gloria London
- Ethnicity and material culture / Gloria London
- Women in the ancient Near East / Susan Ackerman
- Everyday life (customs, manners, and laws) / Victor H. Matthews
- Archaeological survey in the Southern Levant / E.B. Banning
- Restoration of ancient monuments : theory and practice / G.R.H. Wright
- Metalworking/mining in the Levant / James D. Muhly
- Weapons and warfare in ancient Syria-Palestine / Graham Philip
- Ceramics/kilns / Gloria London
- Jewelry in the Levant / Elizabeth E. Platt
- The mosaics of Jordan / Michele Piccirillo
- Numismatics (minting and monetary systems/coinage) in the Levant / Kevin Butcher
- Scarabs / William A. Ward
- GIS and archaeological survey / Gary L. Christopherson
- Computer applications in archaeology / E.B. Banning.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781575062341
- 1575062348
- 9781575065472
- 1575065479
- OCLC:
- 784964774
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