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Gibeon, where the sun stood still : the discovery of the Biblical city / by James B. Pritchard.
Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401) DS110.J5 P68
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LIBRA 913.3945 P935.3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pritchard, James B. (James Bennett), 1909-1997, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament--Antiquities.
- Bible.
- Al Jīb--Antiquities.
- Al Jīb.
- Jordan--Antiquities.
- Jordan.
- Palestine--Antiquities.
- Palestine.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Antiquities.
- Middle East--Palestine.
- West Bank--Al Jīb.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel--Gibeon.
- Al-Jib (West Bank)--Antiquities.
- Local Subjects:
- Bible. Old Testament--Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 176 pages : illustrations, maps, plan ; 23 cm
- Distribution:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1962.
- Summary:
- This first book-length presentation of the results of our excavations at el-Jib has been written for the general reader who is concerned with the contribution that archaeology has made to the biblical history of the site ... In telling the story of Gibeon I have tried to show how the tale of the city unfolded week by week and year by year through excavation and study. I have sought to give in these pages a personally conducted tour, as it were, of the ruins of ancient Gibeon and what we have seen in them ... The results of the excavations at el-Jib are unique in that they can be related with a high degree of certainty to specific events described in the Old Testament. For the first time in the history of scientific archaeology in the land of the Bible an actual place name of a biblical city, neatly incised on clay, has been found under circumstances which make certain the identification of the name with the ruins.
- Contents:
- El-Jib, the site of Gibeon
- The link with the Bible
- Drawers of water
- Makers of wine
- Everyday life
- The Necropolis
- Three thousand years of history.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pritchard, James B. (James Bennett), 1909-1997. Gibeon, where the sun stood still.
- ISBN:
- 0691035172
- 9780691035178
- 069100210X
- 9780691002101
- OCLC:
- 363020
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