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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461836703321

Autore

Pritchard James B (James Bennett), <1909-1997.>

Titolo

Gibeon, where the sun stood still [[electronic resource] ] : the discovery of the Biblical city / / by James B. Pritchard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 1962

ISBN

1-280-49456-5

9786613589798

1-4008-4318-9

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Princeton Studies on the Near East

Classificazione

BC 8763

Disciplina

913.33

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology

Electronic books.

Al Jīb Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First Princeton paperback edition, 1973."

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR ILLUSTRATIONS -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TEXT DRAWINGS -- I . EL-JIB, THE SITE OF GIBEON -- II. THE LINK WITH THE BIBLE -- III. DRAWERS OF WATER -- IV. MAKERS OF WINE -- V. EVERYDAY LIFE -- VI. THE NECROPOLIS -- VII. THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY -- APPENDIX -- The Staff at el-Jib -- Chronology of Preliminary Reports -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This first book-length presentation of the results of our excavations at el-Jib has been written for the general reader who is concerned with the contribution that archaeology has made to the biblical history of the site.... In telling the story of Gibeon I have tried to show how the tale of the city unfolded week by week and year by year through excavation and study. I have sought to give in these pages a personally conducted tour, as it were, of the ruins of ancient Gibeon and what we have seen in them.... The results of the excavations at el-Jib are unique in that they can be related with a high degree of certainty to specific events described in the Old Testament. For the first time in the history of scientific archaeology in the land of the Bible an actual place name of a biblical city, neatly incised on clay, has been found under



circumstances which make certain the identification of the name with the ruins.--from the Preface