The Archaeology of Israel : constructing the past, interpreting the present /
The Archaeology of Israel : constructing the past, interpreting the present / [print]
edited by Neil Asher Silberman and David Small.
- Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, (c)1997.
- 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
"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"--Introd.
Introduction -- Politics and archaeology -- Archaeology, political culture, and culture in Israel -- Structuring the past : Israelis, Palestinians, and the symbolic authority of archaeological monuments -- Historical imaginings, ideological gestures : W.F. Albright and the 'reasoning faculties of man' -- Tel Miqne-Ekron : an Iron Age I Philistine settlement in Canaan -- The Yigael Yadin memorial excavations at Hazor, 1990-93 : aims and preliminary results -- Discoveries at Tel Dor -- The excavations at Tel Beth Shean during the years 1989-94 -- The revolutionary effects of archaeology on the study of Jewish history : the case of the ancient synagogue -- Jewish ritual baths : interpreting the digs and the texts : some issues in the social history of Second Temple Judaism -- Pots and people revisited : ethnic boundaries in the Iron Age I -- Can pig remains be Philology, theology, and archaeology : what kind of history do we want, and what is possible? -- Text and artifact : two monologues? sed for ethnic diagnosis in the ancient Near East? -- Group identification and ethnicity in the construction of the early state of Israel : from the outside looking in --
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Bible.--Old Testament--Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel--Congresses.
DS111.P549.A734 1997
"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"--Introd.
Introduction -- Politics and archaeology -- Archaeology, political culture, and culture in Israel -- Structuring the past : Israelis, Palestinians, and the symbolic authority of archaeological monuments -- Historical imaginings, ideological gestures : W.F. Albright and the 'reasoning faculties of man' -- Tel Miqne-Ekron : an Iron Age I Philistine settlement in Canaan -- The Yigael Yadin memorial excavations at Hazor, 1990-93 : aims and preliminary results -- Discoveries at Tel Dor -- The excavations at Tel Beth Shean during the years 1989-94 -- The revolutionary effects of archaeology on the study of Jewish history : the case of the ancient synagogue -- Jewish ritual baths : interpreting the digs and the texts : some issues in the social history of Second Temple Judaism -- Pots and people revisited : ethnic boundaries in the Iron Age I -- Can pig remains be Philology, theology, and archaeology : what kind of history do we want, and what is possible? -- Text and artifact : two monologues? sed for ethnic diagnosis in the ancient Near East? -- Group identification and ethnicity in the construction of the early state of Israel : from the outside looking in --
97154186 //r97
GB97-40002
Bible.--Old Testament--Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel--Congresses.
DS111.P549.A734 1997