Hazor, the rediscovery of a great citadel of the Bible / Yigael Yadin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yadin, Yigael, 1917-1984.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hazor (Extinct city).

Gezer Site (Israel).

Megiddo (Extinct city).

Gézer (Israël)--Antiquités.

Megiddo (Ville ancienne).

Ḥaẓor (Ville ancienne).

Israel--Gezer Site.

Israel--Hazor (Extinct city).

Israel--Megiddo (Extinct city).

Local Subjects:

Gézer (Israël)--Antiquités.

Megiddo (Ville ancienne).

Ḥaẓor (Ville ancienne).

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (2 color), plans (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1975]

Contents:

Why Hazor?

The First Confrontation

Site of Three Major Discoveries-Area C

A Huge Altar and Mysterious Tunnels-Area F

The Last of Four Temples - Area H

Three More Below!

Cisterns and Dwellings-Areas D and E

The Lower City's Fortifications

The Rise and Downfall of the Lower City

Israelite Hazor after Solomon-Ahab to Pekah

More of Israelite Hazor

The Search for Solomon

Gezer-Excavations in a Book

Megiddo-Post Mortem Excavations

The Source

The Enigma of Joshua and Deborah

Prologue-The Beginning.

Notes:

Marginal headings.

"Designed by Alex Berlyn for Weidenfeld and Nicolson Jerusalem."

"Maps by Carta, Jerusalem; plans drawn by Talma Levin ..."

Lining papers illustrated stelae temple in area C.

Errata slip inserted.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

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

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

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

Potok Collection copy has errata slip wanting.

ISBN:

029776845X

9780297768456

OCLC:

2597910