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The archaeology of Israel : constructing the past, interpreting the present / edited by Neil Asher Silberman & David Small

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"Presented in this volume are papers delivered at a conference of the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University entitled 'The archaeology of Israel: constructing the past, interpreting the present' held on the Lehigh campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, May 22-24, 1994"--Introd.
Contents
Introduction / Neil Asher Silberman and David B. Small -- Politics and archaeology / Amos Elon -- Archaeology, political culture, and culture in Israel / Yaacov Shavit -- Structuring the past : Israelis, Palestinians, and the symbolic authority of archaeological monuments / Neil Asher Silberman -- Historical imaginings, ideological gestures : W.F. Albright and the 'reasoning faculties of man' / Burke O. Long -- Tel Miqne-Ekron : an Iron Age I Philistine settlement in Canaan / Trude Dothan -- The Yigael Yadin memorial excavations at Hazor, 1990-93 : aims and preliminary results / Amnon Ben-Tor -- Discoveries at Tel Dor / Ephraim Stern -- The excavations at Tel Beth Shean during the years 1989-94 / Amihai Mazar -- The revolutionary effects of archaeology on the study of Jewish history : the case of the ancient synagogue / Lee I. Levine -- Jewish ritual baths : interpreting the digs and the texts : some issues in the social history of Second Temple Judaism / Benjamin G. Wright III -- Pots and people revisited : ethnic boundaries in the Iron Age I / Israel Finkelstein -- Can pig remains be used for ethnic diagnosis in the ancient Near East? / Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish -- Group identification and ethnicity in the construction of the early state of Israel : from the outside looking in / David B. Small -- Philology, theology, and archaeology : what kind of history do we want, and what is possible? / William G. Dever -- Text and artifact : two monologues? / Baruch Halpern
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Date
1997
C1997
Author
Silberman, Neil Asher 1950-
Small, David B
Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies (Lehigh University)
Type
Congresses
Physical description
350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Place
Israel
Topic
Excavations (Archaeology)
Antiquities
Record ID
siris_sil_540673
Usage
CC0

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