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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958037403321

Titolo

Exploring the Longue Durée : essays in honor of Lawrence E. Stager / / edited by J. David Schloen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winona Lake, Ind., : Eisenbrauns, c2009

ISBN

1-57506-608-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (561 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchloenJ. David <1962->

StagerLawrence E

Disciplina

933

Soggetti

Bronze age - Palestine

Iron age - Palestine

Excavations (Archaeology) - Middle East

Palestine Antiquities

Israel Antiquities

Middle East Antiquities

Palestine History To 70 A.D

Middle East History To 622

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Publications of Lawrence E. Stager": p. [xix]-xxii.

Nota di contenuto

7. CORES, PERIPHERIES, AND PORTS OF POWER: THEORIES OF CANAANITE DEVELOPMENT IN THE EARLY SECOND MILLENNIUM B.C.E.8. THE SOCIAL WORLDS OF THE BOOK OF JOB; 9. TELLTALE REMNANTS OF ORAL EPIC IN THE OLDER SOURCES OF THE TETRATEUCH: DOUBLE AND TRIPLE PROPER NAMES IN EARLY HEBREW SOURCES, AND IN HOMERIC AND UGARITIC EPIC POETRY; 10. MERENPTAH'S "ISRAEL," THE BIBLE'S, AND OURS; 11. LINCHPINS REVISITED; 12. CITIES, VILLAGES, AND FARMSTEADS: THE LANDSCAPE OF LEVITICUS 25:29-31; 13. DESTRUCTIONS: MEGIDDO AS A CASE STUDY; 14. THE LATE IRON AGE II INCENSE ALTARS FROM ASHKELON

15. PALMACHIM-GIV'AT HA'ESEV: A NAVIGATIONAL LANDMARK FOR ANCIENT MARINERS?16. WINE FOR THE ELITE, OLIVE OIL FOR THE MASSES: SOME ASPECTS OF EARLY AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY IN CYPRUS; 17. THE DAWN OF AN AGE: MEGIDDO IN THE IRON AGE I; 18.



COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES IN THE BOOK OF HAGGAI; 19. LIFTING THE VEIL ON A "DARK AGE": TA'YINAT AND THE NORTH ORONTES VALLEY DURING THE EARLY IRON AGE; 20. OTHER EDENS; 21. THE HOUSE OF THE FATHER AT IRON I TALL AL-'UMAYRI, JORDAN; 22. ISRAEL'S ANCESTORS WERE NOT NOMADS; 23. HOW MUCH IS THAT IN . . . ? MONETIZATION, MONEY, ROYAL STATES, AND EMPIRES

43. TRADE AND POWER IN LATE BRONZE AGE CANAAN

Sommario/riassunto

Fifty scholars who represent a wide range of nationalities and specialties--archaeologists, biblical scholars, philologists, and historians--have contributed essays in honor of Lawrence E. Stager, the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel and Director of the Semitic Museum at Harvard University, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Various academic generations are represented: among the contributors to this volume are Professor Stager's former students and some of his own teachers, as well as a diverse group of his many friends and colleagues of all ages. Moreover, the studies collected herein span the gamut from detailed analyses of sites, artifacts, and texts to broad theoretical syntheses. Several authors draw directly upon Stager's theoretical work, invoking his model of "port power" and his ideas about kinship and "patrimonialism" in ancient Israel, thereby demonstrating his influence as one of the leading Near Eastern archaeologists of his generation. Others discuss archaeological phenomena that have figured prominently in Stager's research over the years, such as ancient horticulture, Iron Age houses and villages, and finds related to the site of Ashkelon in Israel, where he has directed excavations since 1985. The remaining chapters are a fascinating sample of research in biblical studies (often with a sociological emphasis, as in Stager's own work), in nonbiblical philology, and in the archaeology of Israel and the eastern Mediterranean region in the Bronze and Iron Ages.