TY  - BOOK
AU  - Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies (Lehigh University)
AU  - Silberman,Neil Asher
AU  - Small,David B.
TI  - The Archaeology of Israel: constructing the past, interpreting the present 
AV  - DS111.P549.A734 1997 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Sheffield, Eng.
PB  - Sheffield Academic Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Israel
N1  - "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; 1 and indexes; 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; 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 --; Philology, theology, and archaeology : what kind of history do we want, and what is possible? -- Text and artifact : two monologues?; 2
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