Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000 - 586 B.C.E.
By Amihai Mazar
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Preface Acknowledgements and Credits Bibliographical Note List of Abbreviations List of Tables List of Maps and Illustrations Glossary of Geographic Terms |
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION |
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The Geographic Setting; The Tell and the Ruin; History of the Research; Stratigraphy; Excavation Methods; Coping with the Finds; Regional Studies; Chronology; Terminology and Periodization' Publications; Ideology and Interpretation |
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CHAPTER TWO THE FIRST AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES: The Neolithic Period (ca. 8500-4300 B.C.E.) |
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| Before Agriculture | |
| The Natufian Culture |
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| The Neolithic Age (8500-4300 B.C.E.) | |
| Introduction; Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA); Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB); The Pottery Neolithic Period (PN); Desert Regions in the Neolithic Period |
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| Notes |
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CHAPTER THREE INNOVATIVE COMMUNITIES OF THE FOURTH MILLENIUM: The Chalcolithic Period (ca. 4300-3300 B.C.E.) |
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Introduction; Settlement Pattern; Settlement Planning and Architecture: The Temple at En Gedi; Pottery; Stone Implements: The Flint Industry; Stone Vessels and Shell Objects; The Copper Industry and the "Cave of the Treasure"; Ritual Art; Burial Customs; Subsistence Economy; The Origins of the Ghassulian Culture and its Chronology; The Collapse of the Ghassulian Culture |
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| Notes | |
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CHAPTER FOUR THE EMERGENCE OF CITIES: The Early Bronze Age (ca. 3300-2300 B.C.E.) |
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| Introduction |
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| The Early Bronze I Period (ca. 3300-3050 B.C.E.) | |
| Terminology; Settlement Pattern; Site Plan and Architecture; Burial Customs; Pottery; Other Finds; The Origins of the Early Bronze I Culture; Relations with Egypt and Chronology |
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| The Early Bronze II-III Urban Culture (ca. 3050-2300 B.C.E.) | |
| Inner Phasing and Chronology; The Background to Urbanization; Settlement Pattern and Population: The Urban Environment; The Golan-Galilee Enclosures; The Negev and Southern Sinai Pastoralists; Agriculture; Architecture: Fortifications; City Planning and Dwellings; Temples; The Granary at Beth-Yerah; The 'Ai Water Reservoir; Pottery; Metallurgy; International Connections: Connections with Egypt; Art Objects Indicating Relations with Syria, Analtolia, Mesopotamia and the Aegean; Burial Customs; Society, Politics and Economy; The Collapse of the Early Bronze Age Urban Culture; The Early Bronze Age and the Bible |
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CHAPTER FIVE AN INTERLUDE: The EB IV/MB I Period (ca. 2300-2000 B.C.E.) |
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| Introduction; Terminology; Settlement Pattern and Architecture; Burial Customs; Pottery: The Three Main Assemblages; Syria Imported Pottery; Metallurgy: Weapons and Pins; The 'Ain Samiya Goblet; Chronology; Interpretation |
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| Notes |
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CHAPTER SIX MIGHTY CANAANITE CITY-STATES: The Middle Bronze II Period (ca. 2000-1550 B.C.E.) |
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| General Outline |
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| The Middle Bronze IIA Period (ca. 2000-1800/1750 B.C.E.) | |
| Introduction; Settlement Pattern; Fortifications; Urban Architecture; Pottery; Metallurgy; Relations with Egypt; The Origin of the Middle Bronze IIA Culture; Chronology |
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| The Middle Bronze IIB-C Period (ca. 1800-1550 B.C.E.) | |
| Introduction; Subphasing and Chronology; Settlement Pattern; Fortifications: Ramparts and Glacis; City Gates; Urban Architecture: City Plan and Dwellings; Palaces; Temples; Agricultural Installations; Burial Customs; Pottery and Foreign Relations; Weapons; Art: Metal Figurines; Jewelry; Glyptic Art; Monumental Art; Writing; The Patriarchal Narratives and the Middle Bronze Age; The End of the Middle Bronze Age |
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CHAPTER SEVEN IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPTIAN DOMINATION: The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1200 B.C.E.) |
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| Historical Background; Inner Division and Terminology; Settlement Pattern; The Occupation History of Late Bronze Sites; Aspects of Canaanite Town Planning and Architecture: Fortifications; Town Planning; Palaces; Domestic Architecture; Temples; Pottery and International Trade: Local Pottery; The Bichrome Group; Cypriot Imported Pottery; Mycenaean Imports; Mettalurgy; Art: Sculpture in Stone; Glyptic; Ivories; Metal Art Objects; Clay Figurines; Writing; Burial Customs; The Egyptian presence in Canaan: Egyptian Forts and Residencies; Anthropoid Coffins; Egyptian Mines; The End of the Late Bronze Age |
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CHAPTER EIGHT THE DAYS OF THE JUDGES: Iron Age I (ca. 1200-1000 B.C.E.) |
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| Terminology and Inner Division |
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| Iron Age IA: The Last Phase of Egyptian Control in Canaan |
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| The Settlements of the Philistines and Other Sea Peoples | |
| Historical Sources; The Initial Settlement of the Sea Peoples; Settlement Pattern and Stratigraphy; Philistine Bichrome Pottery; Architecture: Fortifications; Town Planning and Dwellings; The Tell Qasile Temples; Cult Objects; Glyptic Art and Writing; Burial Customs; The End of Philistine Culture |
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| The Material Culture of the Israelite Tribes in the Period of the Judges | |
| Introduction; The Israelite Conquest of Canaan in the Light of Archaeological Evidence; The Israelite Settlement; Settlement Planning and Architecture; Pottery; Religious Practice; The Problem of Ethnic Identity and Origins of Israelite Culture; |
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| The Canaanites and the Emergence of Phoenician Culture |
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| Transjordan in Iron Age I |
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| Metallurgy, Art and Writing in Iron Age I |
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| Notes |
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CHAPTER NINE THE UNITED MONARCHY: Iron Age IIA (ca. 1000-925 B.C.E.) |
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| Introduction; Historical Outline; Archaeology of the Time of Saul and David; The Time of Solomon: Solomonic Buildings in Jerusalem; Solomon's Buildings Outside Jerusalem; Settlement and Architecture: Fortifications; Town Planning; Other Settlement Features Related to the United Monarchy; Settlements in the Negev: The Central Negev Highlands; The Northern Negev; Ezion-Geber; The Outcome of Shishak's Campaign |
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| Notes |
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CHAPTER TEN THE DIVIDED MONARCHY: Iron Age IIB-C (925-586 B.C.E.) |
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| Historical Outline |
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| The Northern Kingdom of Israel | |
| Samaria: The Samaria Ostraca; Major Cities in the Kingdom of Israel; Other Towns and Forts in the Northern Kingdom |
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| The Southern Kingdom of Judah | |
| Settlement Pattern; Jerusalem: The Palace of Ramat Rahel; Lachish: Lachish Before 701 B.C.E.; The Conquest of Lachish by Sennacherib; Lachish in the Seventh Century B.C.E.; Judean County Towns: Occupation History of Judean Towns; The Northern Negev: Arad; Other Sites in the Northern Negev; The Central and Southern Negev: Kadesh-Barneau; Kuntillet 'Ajrud; Tell el-Kheleifah; The Judean Desert; Other Forts and Towers in Judah; The Lamelach and Rossette Seal Impressions; Judah's Downfall |
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CHAPTER ELEVEN GENERAL ASPECTS OF THE ISRAELITE MATERIAL CULTURE |
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| Aspects of Israelite Town Planning and Architecture: Classification of Cities; Town Planning; Fortifications; Streets; Royal Architecture and Ashlar masonry; Stables and Store Buildings; Water Supply Projects; Dwellings; Industrial Installations; Insraelite Cult: Temples, Altars and Artifacts: Dan; Beer-sheba; Arad; Hurvat Qitmit; Other Cult Installations; Clay Figurines; Cult Stands; Art in Israel and Judah: The Samaria Ivories; Seal Engravings; Israelite Pottery; Metallurgy; Trade and Foreign Connections: Internal trade; International Trade; Literacy and Inscriptions: Israelite Seals and Seal Impressions; Burial Customs |
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CHAPTER TWELVE ISRAEL'S NEIGHBORS AND THE ASSYRIAN AND BABYLONIAN DOMINATIONS |
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| Philistia Phoenicia Transjordan The Assyrian Conquests and Domination The Babylonian Period |
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| Notes |
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| General Index Scriptures Index |
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