Confronting the Past : : Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of William G. Dever / / ed. by Seymour (Sy) Gitin, J. Edward Wright, J. P. Dessel.

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• MitwirkendeR: Abadi, Yael,; Ackerman, Susan,; Ackermann, Oren,; Albertz, Rainer,; Ben-Tor, Amnon,; Bietak, Manfred,; Bruins, Hendrik J.,; Buccellati, Giorgio,; Bunimovitz, Shlomo,; Dothan, Trude,; Freedman, David Noel,; Fritz, Volkmar,; Gittlen, Barry M.,; Gottwald, Norman K.,; Greenberg, Raphael,; Halpern, Baruch,; Hardin, James W.,; Hendel, Ronald,; Hermon, Sorin,; Herr, Larry G.,; Holladay Jr., John S.,; Karageorghis, Vassos,; King, Philip J.,; Kotter, Wade,; Lemaire, André,; Leonard Jr., Albert,; Lewis, Theodore J.,; Maier, Aren M.,; Malamat, Abraham,; Matthiae, Paolo,; Mazar, Amihai,; Meyers, Carol,; Meyers, Eric M.,; Miano, David,; Na'aman, Nadav Naª,; Rainey, Anson F.,; Richard, Suzanne,; Rosen, Steven A.,; Seger, Joe D.,; Sharon, Ilan,; Smith, Mark S.,; Stager, Lawrence E.,; Stern, Ephraim,; Swiny, Stuart,; Vardi, Jacob,; Zarzecki-Peleg, Anabel,; Zevit, Ziony,
• HerausgeberIn: Dessel, J. P.,; Gitin, Seymour (Sy),; Wright, J. Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

William G. Dever is recognized as the doyen of North American archaeologist-historians who work in the field of the ancient Levant. He is best known as the director of excavations at the site of Gezer but has worked at numerous other sites, and his many students have led dozens of other expeditions. He has been editor of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, was for many years professor in the influential archaeology program at the University of Arizona, and now in retirement continues actively to write and publish. In this volume, 46 of his colleagues and students contribute essays in his honor, reflecting the broad scope of his interests, particularly in terms of the historical implications of archaeology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- William G. Dever: Bibliography -- Part 1 Archaeology -- The Sad Fate of Statues and the Mutilated Statues of Hazor -- An Archaeologist on Mars -- Of Pots and Paradigms: Interpreting the Intermediate Bronze Age in Israel/Palestine -- A Decorated Ivory Lid from Tel Miqne-Ekron -- Har Resisim 126: An Ephemeral Early Bronze Age Site -- Gezer Rectified: The Dating of the South Gate Complex -- An Early Iron Age I House with a Cultic Corner at Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan -- Aphrodite/Astarte on Horseback -- Planning a Paleolithic Picnic -- The Archaic Palace at Ebla: A Royal Building between Early Bronze Age IVB and Middle Bronze Age I -- Tel Beth-Shean and the Fate of Mounds in the Intermediate Bronze Age -- Early Bronze Age IV Transitions: An Archaeometallurgical Study -- The Chipped Stone Assemblage from Be'er Resisim in the Negev Highlands: A Preliminary Study -- Podium Structures with Lateral Access: Authority Ploys in Royal Architecture in the Iron Age Levant -- Chariot Fittings from Philistine Ashkelon -- Goddesses and Cults at Tel Dor -- Cypriot Anthropomorphic Figurines of a Certain Type -- Part 2 Bible and Ancient Israel -- Women and the Worship of Yahweh in Ancient Israel -- Purity Strategies and Political Interests in the Policy of Nehemiah -- Proto-Globalization and Proto-Secularization in Ancient Israel -- The Miraculous Wine of Cana in Its Galilean Ceramic Context -- The Archaeology of Memory: King Solomon, Chronology, and Biblical Representation -- Khirbet el-Qôm and Hebrew and Aramaic Epigraphy -- The Ecological Consequences of a Siege: A Marginal Note on Deuteronomy 20:19-20 -- Hierarchy or Heterarchy? Archaeology and the Theorizing of Israelite Society -- Israel and Its Neighbors Then and Now: Revisionist History and the Quest for History in the Middle East Today -- Ostracon No. 7 from Arad Reconsidered -- Looking for Bethel: An Exercise in Historical Geography -- In Solomon's Temple (1 Kings 6-7): Between Text and Archaeology -- Part 3 Ancient Near East -- The Predecessors of the Hyksos -- "His Seed Is Not": 13th-Century BCE Israel -- Solomon and Gezer -- Hezekiah's Tribute, Long-Distance Trade, and the Wealth of Nations ca. 1,000-600 BC: A New Perspective -- Gezer and Circumcision -- Covenant and Blood Rituals: Understanding Exodus 24:3-8 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context -- Trade Relations between Mari and Hazor (State of Research, 2002) -- Implicit Population Figures and Historical Sense: What Happened to 200,150 Judahites in 701 BCE -- Indexes -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Other Ancient Sources