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The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Southern Canaan/ Aren M. Maeir, Itzhaq Shai, Chris McKinny.
No full textIn English.The Late Bronze Age in the Levant is a period of much interest to archaeologists, historians and biblical scholars. This is a period with intense international relations, rich in ancient sources, which provide historical data for the period, and is a crucial formative period for the peoples and cultures who play central roles in the Hebrew Bible. Recent archaeological research in Israel and surrounding countries has provided new, exciting, and in some cases, groundbreaking finds, interpretations and understanding of this period.The fourteen papers in this volume represent the proceedings of a conference held at Bar-Ilan University in 2014 (with the additional of several invited papers not presented at the conference), which provide both overviews of Late Bronze Age finds from several important sites in Israel and surrounding countries, as well as several synthetic studies on the various issues relating to the period. These papers, by and large, represent a broad view of cuttting edge research in the archaeology of the ancient Levant in general, and on the Late Bronze Age specifically.Maeir, Aren M. / Shai, Itzhaq / McKinny, Chris -- Maeir, Aren M. / Chadwick, Jeffrey R. / Dagan, Amit / Hitchcock, Louise A. / Katz, Jill / Shai, Itzhaq / Uziel, Joe -- Frumin, Suembikya I. / Melamed, Yoel / Weiss, Ehud -- Kleiman, Sabine / Koch, Ido / Webster, Lyndelle / Berendt, Karl / Sergi, Omer / Oeming, Manfred / Gadot, Yuval / Lipschits, Oded -- Ortiz, Steven / Wolff, Samuel -- Mazar, Amihai / Panitz-Cohen, Nava -- Garfinkel, Yosef / Kreimerman, Igor / Hasel, Michael G. / Klingbeil, Martin G. -- Wimmer, Stefan Jakob -- McKinny, Chris / Tavger, Aharon / Shai, Itzhaq -- Uziel, Joe / Baruch, Yuval / Szanton, Nahshon -- Chadwick, Jeffrey R. -- Fischer, Peter M. -- Stockhammer, Philipp W. -- Pfoh, Emanuel -- Koch, Ido -- Frontmatter -- Foreword / Contents -- The Late Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi/Gath and the site's role in Southwestern Canaan / The Wheat-People of Canaan / Late Bronze Age Azekah -- an almost forgotten story / A reevaluation of Gezer in the Late Bronze Age in light of renewed excavations and recent scholarship / Tel Batash in the Late Bronze Age -- a retrospect / First impression on the urban layout of the last Canaanite city of Lachish: a view from the northeast corner of the site / Lachish is Lachish on the Lachish bowl: an object lesson for reading Hieratic, with little surprising results / Tel Burna in the Late Bronze -- assessing the 13th century BCE landscape of the Shephelah / Jerusalem in the Late Bronze Age -- The Glass Half Full / Hebron in the Late Bronze Age: Discoveries of the of the American expedition to Hebron (Tell er-Rumeide) / The Transjordanian Jordan Valley in the Late Bronze Age: under Egyptian control? / Shifting meanings and values of Aegean-type pottery in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant / Prestige and authority in the Southern Levant during the Amarna Age / Southwestern Canaan and Egypt during the Late Bronze Age I-IIA / Index1 online resource (295 p.)
Philistine Religion
No full textEvidence for religious praxis in the Philistine culture of the Iron Age Southern Levant, based on archaeological finds, and some information from biblical literature and ancient near eastern texts. The Philistine culture appeared in the southern Coastal Plain ("Philistia") of the southern Levant (modern Israel/Palestine) ca. 1200 BCE during the transition between the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. This culture is a combination of migrants from various regions in the eastern Mediterranean (with significant Aegean components), of various socio-economic backgrounds (including perhaps pirate groups), who settled in the Philistia alongside local Canaanites. Together, they formed a unique "entangled" culture, which combined attributes of various origins. This culture continued to exist in the region until ca. 600, when the last Philistine cities were destroyed by the Babylonians. The Philistine culture is well-known from excavations in the last century, at major cities such as Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron and Gath, and smaller sites such as Nahal Patish, Tel Qasile and Tel Yavneh. Important finds relation to cultic practices have been found at these sites, including public temples (Ekron, Gath, Patish and Qasile), domestic cult (Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron and Gath), and cultic repositories of various types (Gath, Qasile and Yavneh). The Philistine culture was not rich in written materials, and the small corpus of inscriptions from the Iron Age II (ca. 1000-600) is written in an alphabetic script, using a language similar to Phoenician, and contains minimal information on Philistine religion, including a few names of deities (e.g. Patgaiah, Baal), but very little other information. The Philistines are mentioned often in the Bible as neighbors and enemies of the Philistines, often in a negative manner. While the biblical texts may have been written, for the most part, later than the events they depict, they nevertheless seem to mirror the complex relationships that existed between the Israelites and the Philistines during the Iron Age.Non UBCUnreviewedFacult
The Second millennium BCE lithic assemblage from Area E, seasons 2005-2011
No full textDuring the 2 nd millennium BCE in the Near East, metals became more and more available and used. Nevertheless, this increasing availability of metals, first copper and then bronze, did not immediately result in the general cessation of the production and use of flint tools for either specialized or domestic activities, at least until the spread and general adoption of iron technology, in the early 1st millennium BCE (Rosen 1997). The 2nd millennium BCE assemblage recovered from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Area E, well reflects this scenario, already documented in other contemporary sites in the Levant (e.g. Rosen 2004 with references). These flint collections are characterized by two different components, a formal and standardized production of Large Geometric sickle segments, and a non-diagnostic manufacture of ad hoc tools produced and used in domestic contexts. Although the formal types show the existence of a craft-specialized production of sickle elements, the non-standardized ad hoc tools and the waste products associated with their production also offer important information about the production and use of flint in early historical times
A ‘Repertoire of Otherness’? Identities in early Iron Age Philistia
No full textRecent study of the Philistine culture of the Iron Age Southern Levant has enabled to suggest a much more
complex and multi-faceted understanding of the origins, composition and development of this fascinating culture,
first appearing in the transition between the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. In this paper, I discuss the entangled
identities that can be identified in Iron Age Philistia, and caution from previous, and in some cases, contemporary,
simplistic definitions and understanding of the identity matrix of the Philstines and their relations
with neighboring groups and cultures
New Perspectives on the Philistines in light of recent excavations at Tell es-Safi – biblical Gath of the Philistines
No full textThe Philistines and their culture represent one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of the early Near East, particularly in light of the rich archaeological, biblical and epigraphic data relating to this culture, and the central role in which the Philistines are portrayed in the early biblical narratives. The last two decades of excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath, identified as biblical Gath of the Philistines (home town of Goliath according to the biblical text), one of the five ci..
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