Archaeology in the Holy Land / by Kathleen M. Kenyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenyon, Kathleen M., 1906-1978.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestine--Antiquities.

Palestine.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Palestine.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities.

Middle East--Palestine.

Local Subjects:

Excavations (Archaeology)--Palestine.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 360 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 56 plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Manufacture:

Letchworth, Hertfordshire : Printed by The Garden City Press Limited.

Place of Publication:

London : Ernest Benn Limited, [1970]

Contents:

1. Introduction: the setting of Palestine in the history of the Near East

2. The Beginnings of settled life

3. From the first settlements to the beginnings of civilisation

4. The Proto-Urban period

5. The City States of the early Bronze Age

6. The arrival of the Amorites

7. The Middle Bronze Age and the Hyksos

8. The Late Bronze Age and the coming of the Israelites

9. The Philistines and the beginning of the early Iron Age

10. The United Monarchy

11. The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah

12. The Fall of the Hebrew kingdoms and the Post-Exilic period.

Notes:

"First Edition published 1960 by Ernest Benn Limited ... Third Edition 1970, Second Impression 1971."

Contains prefaces to first, second and third editions.

"The present edition is therefore a compromise ... I have therefore tried to bring the book up to date by a few amendments to the text, but basically by Addenda related to the original chapters and by adding the Appendix on the sites."--Preface to Third Edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

Potok Collection copy is "Third Edition Second Impression 1971".

Other Format:

Online version: Kenyon, Kathleen Mary, Dame. Archaeology in the Holy Land.

ISBN:

0510033016

9780510033019

0510033024

9780510033026

OCLC:

63211