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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821768303321

Titolo

Midian, Moab and Edom : The history and archaeology of late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and north-west Arabia / / edited by John F.A. Sawyer and David J.A. Clines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, : JSOT Press, 1983

ISBN

9786611802783

1-281-80278-6

0-567-17445-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations, maps, plates

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 24

Altri autori (Persone)

SawyerJohn F. A

ClinesDavid J. A

Disciplina

933

Soggetti

Bronze age - Jordan

Jordan Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; SITES AND SURVEYS; ""Excavations at Buseirah (Biblical Bozrah)""; ""The Late Bronze and Iron Age Sites of the Wadi el Hasà„ Survey 1979""; ""Social-Religious Distinctions in Iron Age Burial Practice in Jordan""; POTTERY; ""Painted Pottery of Tayma and Problems of Cultural Chronology in Northwest Arabia""; ""The Edomite Pottery""; ""The Midianite Pottery""; METALLURGY; ""A Laboratory Reconstruction of Late Bronze - Early Iron Age Copper Smelting in the Arabah""; ""The meaning of barzel in the Biblical expressions 'Chariots of Iron', 'Yoke of Iron', etc.""

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY""The 'United' Campaign against Moab in 2 Kings 3:4-27""; ""Midianites and Ishmaelites""; ""The Midianite Arc in Joshua and Judges""

Sommario/riassunto

Specialists from different fields converge on one relatively circumscribed and, until recently, largely neglected area of biblical archaeology. The eleven papers comprise archaeological reports from Buseira (Biblical Bozrah) and Wadi el Hasa in Moab, technical studies of Midianite and Edomite pottery, Iron Age burial practices and copper smelting in the Arabah, a semantic study of barzel ('iron') in Biblical



Hebrew, and three essays of more general interest, on the history of the Ishmaelites and the Midianites.