Megiddo - Armageddon : the story of the Canaanite and Israelite city / David Ussishkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ussishkin, David, author.

Contributor:

Ḥevrah la-ḥaḳirat Erets-Yiśraʼel ṿe-ʻatiḳoteha, issuing body.

Biblical Archaeology Society, issuing body.

Standardized Title:

Megido bi-teḳufat ha-Miḳra. English

מגידו בתקופת המקרא. אנגלית http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019019051

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Megiddo (Extinct city)--Antiquities.

Megiddo (Extinct city).

Israel--Megiddo (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel--Megiddo (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

480 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jerusalem : Israel Exploration Society : Biblical Archaeology Society, 2018.

Language Note:

"This book was originally written in Hebrew. The English version includes several corrections and additions which do not appear in the Hebrew book"--Page 12.

Contents:

Tel Megiddo and the identification of the biblical city

The excavations of Gottlieb Schumacher

The excavations of the Chicago Oriental Institute

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem excavations

The Tel Aviv University excavations

The sacred area in Early Bronze Age IB

Megiddo in Early Bronze Age III

Megiddo in the Intermediate Bronze Age

Megiddo : a major Canaanite center in the Middle Bronze Age

The sacred area : the cultic center of the Canaanite city

The conquest of Pharaoh Thutmose III

Megiddo : Canaanite city-state under Egyptian hegemony

The end of the city-state under Egyptian control

The final stage of the Canaanite city

Megiddo and the Kingdom of Israel

Stratum VA-IVB : the city gate, southern palace and northern palace

Stratum VA-IVB : the eastern palace and temples

Stratum IVA : military center of the Kingdom of Israel

Megiddo : an Assyrian district capital

The end of the settlement atop Tel Megiddo and its shift to the south of the mound.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-467) and indexes.

"Biblical Megiddo is one of the most important cities of the ancient Near East. It was intensively and almost continuously inhabited for over six millennia, from the Pottery Neolithic period to the Hellenistic period. Due to its strategic location, innumerable battles and conflicts took place at Megiddo through the milennia, many with a decisive impact on the history of the Land of Israel. In Christian tradition Megiddo is a symbol of wars and conflict -- Armageddon -- where the final battle between the forces of righteousness and the forces of wickedness will take place at the end of days. Large-scale archaeological excavations have been conducted at Tel Megiddo over the course of the last one hundred and thirteen years. No other central mound of the biblical period in the Land of Israel has been so intensively excavated and investigated. As a result, Megiddo has come to symbolize biblical archaeology and remains a key site for understanding the archaeology and history of the biblical period. The present book summarizes the history of Megiddo and its archaeological findings in clear and simple language for the general public"--Back cover.

ISBN:

9789652211187

9652211184

OCLC:

1039460041