Confronting the past :  archaeological and historical essays on ancient Israel in honor of William G. Dever / 
edited by Seymour Gitin, J. Edward Wright, and J.P. Dessel. 
 - Winona Lake, Ind. :  Eisenbrauns,  2006. 
 - 1 online resource (xxiv, 376 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>The sad fate of statues and the mutilated statues of Hazor / Amnon Ben-Tor -- An archaeologist on Mars / Giorgio Buccellati -- Of pots and paradigms: interpreting the Intermediate Bronze Age in Israel/Palestine / Shlomo Bunimovitz and Raphael Greenberg -- A decorated ivory lid from Tel Miqne-Ekron / Trude Dothan -- Har Resisim 126: an ephemeral Early Bronze Age site / Barry M. Gittlen -- Gezer rectified: the dating of the South Gate complex / James W. Hardin and Joe D. Seger -- An early Iron Age I house with a cultic corner at Tall al-ʻUmayri, Jordan / Larry G. Herr -- Aphrodite/Aštarte on horseback / Vassos Karageorghis -- Planning a Paleolithic picnic / Albert Leonard, Jr. -- The Archaic Palace at Ebla: a royal building between Early Bronze Age IVB and Middle Bronze Age I / Paolo Matthiae -- Tel Beth-Shean and the fate of mounds in the Intermediate Bronze Age / Amihai Mazar -- Early Bronze Age IV transitions: an archaeometallurgical study / Suzanne Richard -- The chipped stone assemblage from Beʼer Resisim in the Negev Highlands: a preliminary study / Steven A. Rosen, Sorin Hermon, Jacob Vardi, and Yael Abadi -- Podium structures with lateral access: authority ploys in royal architecture in the Iron Age levant / Ilan Sharon and Anabel Zarzecki-Peleg -- Chariot fittings from Philistine Ashkelon / Lawrence E. Stager -- Goddesses and cults at Tel Dor / Ephraim Stern -- Cypriot anthropomorphic figurines of a certain type / Stuart Swiny. Women and the worship of Yahweh in ancient Israel / Susan Ackerman -- Purity strategies and political interests in the policy of Nehemiah / Rainer Albertz -- Proto-globalization and proto-secularization in ancient Israel / Norman K. Gottwald -- The miraculous wine of Cana in its Galilean ceramic context / Baruch Halpern -- The archaeology of memory: King Solomon, chronology, and biblical representation / Ronald Hendel -- Khirbet el-Qôm and Hebrew and Aramaic epigraphy / André Lemaire -- The ecological consequences of a siege: a marginal note on Deuteronomy 20:19-20 / Aren M. Maier, Oren Ackermann, and Hendrik J. Bruins -- Hierarchy or heterarchy? archaeology and the theorizing of Israelite society / Carol Meyers -- Israel and its neighbors then and now: revisionist history and the quest for history in the Middle East today / Eric M. Meyers -- Ostracon no. 7 from Arad reconsidered / Nadav Naʼaman -- Looking for Bethel: an exercise in historical geography / Anson F. Rainey -- In Solomon's Temple (1 Kings 6/7): between text and archaeology / Mark S. Smith. The predecessors of the Hyksos / Manfred Bietak -- "His seed is not": 13th-century BCE Israel / David Noel Freedman and David Miano -- Solomon and Gezer / Volkmar Fritz -- Hezekiah's tribute, long-distance trade, and the wealth of nations ca. 1,000/600 BC: a new perspective / John S. Holladay, Jr. -- Gezer and circumcision / Philip J. King -- Covenant and blood rituals: understanding Exodus 24:3-8 in its ancient Near Eastern context / Theodore J. Lewis -- Trade relations between Mari and Hazor (State of Research, 2002) / Abraham Malamat -- Implicit population figures and historical sense: what happened to 200,150 Judahites in 701 BCE? / Ziony Zevit. 
<br/><br/>Use copy 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>[S.l.] : <br/>HathiTrust Digital Library, <br/>2010. 
<br/><br/><br/>Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. <br/>http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781575065717 1575065711 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Dever, William G.--Bibliographie.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Old Testament--Antiquities.<br/>Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Bible.--Old Testament--Antiquities--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Bible.--Old Testament.<br/>Altes Testament--Aufsatzsammlung.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>To 622 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bronze age--Palestine.<br/>Iron age--Palestine.<br/>Excavations (Archaeology)--Middle East.<br/>HISTORY--Ancient--General.<br/>Antiquities.<br/>Bronze age.<br/>Excavations (Archaeology)<br/>Iron age.<br/>Bijbelse archeologie.<br/>Bijbelse geschiedenis.<br/>Biblische Archäologie.<br/>Archäologie--Israel (Staat)<br/>Archäologie--Palästina.<br/>Biblische Archäologie--Aufsatzsammlung.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Palestine--Antiquities.<br/>Israel--Antiquities.<br/>Middle East--Antiquities.<br/>Palestine--History--To 70 A.D.<br/>Middle East--History--To 622.<br/>Israel.<br/>Middle East.<br/>Middle East--Palestine.<br/>Palestina.<br/>Alter Orient--Aufsatzsammlung.<br/>Palästina--Geschichte--Altertum--Aufsatzsammlung.<br/>Israel (Altertum)--Aufsatzsammlung.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS111  / .C66 2006eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>933