1 option
Re-excavating Jerusalem : archival archaeology / Kay Prag ; with a contribution from Michael Zellmann-Rohrer.
Penn Museum Library DS109 .P73 2018
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prag, Kay, author.
- Series:
- Schweich lectures ; 2016.
- Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology ; 2016
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kenyon, Kathleen M., 1906-1978.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Jerusalem.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Jerusalem--Antiquities.
- Jerusalem--History--To 1500.
- Antiquities.
- Middle East--Jerusalem.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 147 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology is concerned with the archaeology and history of Jerusalem, and with the story of its people over many centuries. It is a story of ongoing crisis, of adaptations and inheritance under successive rulers, where each generation has owed a cultural debt to its predecessors, from the Bronze Age to the modern world. Illustrated with over 80 photos and drawings, 'Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology' reflects on events as revealed in a major programme of archaeological excavation conducted by Dame Kathleen Kenyon in the 1960s, which is still in the process of publication. The excavation archive has an ongoing relevance today. Even though our knowledge of the city and its inhabitants has increased over the decades since then, the archive still reveals fresh insights to set against0contemporary work. The preservation of such archives has great importance for future historians. Amongst topics addressed are the nature of a dispersed settlement pattern in the second millennium BC; a fresh look at the vexed problems of the biblical accounts of the work of David and Solomon and the development of the city in the tenth and ninth centuries BC; the nature of the defensive walls of the town re-established by Nehemiah in the fifth century BC; some evidence of the Roman occupation following the almost total destruction of the city in AD 70; and an exploration in the Islamic city during the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.
- Contents:
- II The Archive p. 5
- III The Bronze and Iron Ages in Jerusalem p. 11
- IV Crisis and Transition in Jerusalem under Rome, Byzantium, Islam and the Crusades p. 63
- V The Islamic City, AD 1187-1516: Archaeology and the Human Story p. 99.
- ISBN:
- 0197266428
- 9780197266427
- OCLC:
- 1040989180
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.