Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past : : Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors, from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina / / ed. by Seymour (Sy) Gitin, William G. Dever.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Ackerman, Susan,; Bietak, Manfred,; Bunimovitz, Shlomo,; Caubet, Annie,; Collins, John J.,; Dever, William G.,; Dothan, Trude,; Faust, Avraham,; Finkelstein, Israel,; Gitin, Seymour,; Halpern, Baruch,; Karageorghis, Vassos,; Kitchen, Kenneth A.,; Levine, Amy-Jill,; Levine, Baruch A.,; Lipinski, Edouard,; Machinist, Peter,; Magness, Jodi,; Mazar, Amihai,; Mendels, Doron,; Meyers, Carol,; Meyers, Eric M.,; Morris, Sarah P.,; Muhly, James D.,; Parpola, Simo,; Rainey, Anson F.,; Sherratt, Susan,; Smith, Mark S.,; Stager, Lawrence E.,; Stern, Ephraim,; Stronach, David,; Toorn, Karel van der,; Ussishkin, David,; Williamson, H. G. M.,; Zevit, Ziony,
• HerausgeberIn: Dever, William G.,; Gitin, Seymour (Sy),
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (624 p.)

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, this collection of erudite essays concentrates on the archaeology of ancient Israel, Canaan, and neighboring nations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Opening Remarks: Greetings -- Part I Historical and Political Landscape: The Levant and Beyond -- Palace Economies in the Late Bronze Age and The Dark Age That Never Was (Iron Age I) -- Islands in the Sea: Aegean Polities as Levantine Neighbors -- The Case of Ugarit and Carchemish: A Contrast -- Greece and Anatolia in the Early Iron Age: -- The Mediterranean Economy: -- The Dynamics of Statehood (Iron Age II) -- The Patrimonial Kingdom of Solomon -- City-States to States: Polity Dynamics in the 10th-9th Centuries B.C.E. -- Remarks on Biblical Traditions and Archaeological Evidence concerning Early Israel -- Assyria's Expansion in the 8th and 7th Centuries and Its Long-Term Repercussions in the West -- Egyptian Interventions in the Levant in Iron Age II -- Imperial Interventions (The Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods) -- Early Achaemenid Iran: New Considerations -- Palestine among the Empires from the 4th to the 1st Century B.C.E.: Impact and Reaction -- Part II Religion and Distinction -- Shadow-Boxing the Canaanites (The Late Bronze Age) -- Temple or "Bêt Marzea" -- Amarna and Later: Aspects of Social History -- Emerging Forms and Practices (Iron Age I) -- The Aegean and the Orient: Cultic Interactions -- The Cult of Astarte in Cyprus -- False Dichotomies in Descriptions of Israelite Religion: -- The Formative Period of State Religion (Iron Age II) -- Mesopotamian Imperialism and Israelite Religion: -- When the Heavens Darkened: Yahweh, El, and the Divine Astral Family in Iron Age II Judah -- Israelite and Philistine Cult and the Archaeological Record in Iron Age II: The "Smoking Gun" Phenomenon -- Cult-Coast and Interior (The Persian Period) -- Phoenician Cult Expressions in the Persian Period -- The Phoenician Source of Palestinian Cults at the End of the Iron Age -- Late Israelite Astronomies and the Early Greeks -- Romans, Jews, and Christians -- The Jewish World and the Coming of Rome -- Helios and the Zodiac Cycle in Ancient Palestinian Synagogues -- Part III The History of the Family: Continuity and Change -- Units and Cultural Unities (Iron Age I) -- Nine Months among the Peasants in the Palestinian Highlands: An Anthropological Perspective on Local Religion in the Early Iron Age -- Building Identity: -- Household Economy (Iron Age II) -- Material Remains and Social Relations: -- The Clan-Based Economy of Biblical Israel -- At Home with the Goddess -- Families, Houses, and Homes (The Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods) -- The Family in Persian Period Judah: Some Textual Reflections -- Roman-Period Houses from the Galilee: -- Apocryphal Women: From Fiction to (Arti)fact -- Part IV Closing Remarks -- Syro-Palestinian and Biblical Archaeology: Into the Next Millennium -- Special Public Lecture -- Jerusalem as a Royal and Cultic Center in the 10th-8th Centuries B.C.E. -- Discussions -- Part I. Historical and Political Landscape: The Levant and Beyond -- Part II. Religion and Distinction -- Part III. The History of the Family: Continuity and Change -- Special Public Lectures -- Appendix I -- Opening of the Israel Museum Exhibit Thundering on High: -- Appendix II -- Greetings Presented at the Israel Exploration Society Reception on Behalf of the Archaeological Institutions in Israel Held at the Israel Museum -- Indexes -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Ancient Texts