The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present

by: Asher Silberman, N. Small, D.

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 This challenging volume offers a timely and extensive overview of the current state of archaeology in Israel. Contributed by leading scholars, the essays focus on current problems and cutting-edge issues, ranging from reviews of ongoing excavations to new analytical approaches. Of interest not only to archaeologists, but to social historians as well, the topics include archaeology and social history, archaeology and ethnicity, as well as the overarching issue of how texts and archaeological knowledge are to be combined in the reconstruction of ancient Israel

Contents:
Introduction / Neil Asher Silberman and David B. Small
Politics and archaeology / Amos Elon
Archaeology, political culture, and culture in Israel / Yaacov Shavit
Structuring the past : Israelis, Palestinians, and the symbolic authority of archaeological monuments / Neil Asher Silberman
Historical imaginings, ideological gestures : W.F. Albright and the 'reasoning faculties of man' / Burke O. Long
Tel Miqne-Ekron : an Iron Age I Philistine settlement in Canaan / Trude Dothan
The Yigael Yadin memorial excavations at Hazor, 1990-93 : aims and preliminary results / Amnon Ben-Tor
Discoveries at Tel Dor / Ephraim Stern
The excavations at Tel Beth Shean during the years 1989-94 / Amihai Mazar
The revolutionary effects of archaeology on the study of Jewish history : the case of the ancient synagogue / Lee I. Levine
Jewish ritual baths : interpreting the digs and the texts : some issues in the social history of Second Temple Judaism / Benjamin G. Wright III
Pots and people revisited : ethnic boundaries in the Iron Age I / Israel Finkelstein
Can pig remains be used for ethnic diagnosis in the ancient Near East? / Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish
Group identification and ethnicity in the construction of the early state of Israel : from the outside looking in / David B. Small
Philology, theology, and archaeology : what kind of history do we want, and what is possible? / William G. Dever
Text and artifact : two monologues? / Baruch Halpern

Presented in this volume are papers delivered at a conference of the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University entitled 'The archaeology of Israel: constructing the past, interpreting the present' held on the Lehigh campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, May 22-24, 1994

Subjects:
Antiquities
Archäologie
Bible. Old Testament
Bible. Old Testament Antiquities Congresses
Bijbelse archeologie
Conference papers and proceedings
Excavations (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology) Israel Congresses
Fouilles (Archéologie) Israël Congrès
HISTORY Ancient General
Israel
Israel Antiquities Congresses
Israël Antiquités Congrès
Palestine Population Histoire Congrès
Temple de Jérusalem (Jérusalem) Congrès
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) Congresses

Series:
Journal for the study of the Old Testament, 237

The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present

by: Asher Silberman, N. Small, D.

• ISBN-13: 9781850756507 / 978-1-85075-650-7
• ISBN-03: 1850756503 / 1-85075-650-3
• Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1997

Price: 81,88 EURO

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