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This authoritative volume brings together a team of world-class scholars to cover the full range of Old Testament backgrounds studies in a concise, up-to-date, and comprehensive manner. With expertise in various subdisciplines of Old Testament backgrounds, the authors illuminate the cultural, social, and historical contexts of the world behind the Old Testament. They introduce readers to a wide range of background materials, covering history, geography, archaeology, and ancient Near Eastern textual and iconographic studies. Meant to be used alongside traditional literature-based canonical surveys, this one-stop introduction to Old Testament backgrounds fills a gap in typical introduction to the Bible courses. It contains over 100 illustrations, including photographs, line drawings, maps, charts, and tables, which will facilitate its use in the classroom.

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2018 by Jonathan S. Greer, John W. Hilber, and John H. Walton

Published by Baker Academic

a division of Baker Publishing Group

PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

www. bakeracademic.com

Ebook edition created 2018

Ebook corrections 02.21.2019

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meansfor example, electronic, photocopy, recordingwithout the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

ISBN 978-1-4934-1554-0

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations labeled CEB are from the COMMON ENGLISH BIBLE. 2011 COMMON ENGLISH BIBLE. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.CommonEnglishBible.com.

Scripture quotations labeled NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States. Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.

Figure 19.7 included courtesy of The Eretz Israel Museum.

Figure 22.1 included courtesy of the Israel Museum. Collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority, exhibited at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Cover art

Top register: Painted lion hunt scene from Til Barsip (Fort Shalmaneser) dating to the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III (r. 745727 BCE).

Bottom register: Monleon y Torres , Rafael (18351900). Watercolor. Navy Museum, Madrid. The painting is apparently based on Phoenician vessels depicted in an Assyrian wall relief from the southern palace of Sennacherib (r. 704681 BCE).

Illustrations

2.1. Key Trade Routes of the Ancient Near East

2.2. Map of the Southern Levant

2.3. Southern Regions of the Levant

4.1. Phytogeographic regions of the southern Levant and rainfall isohyets

4.2. Rock outcrops as a runoff source in the Judean foothills

4.3. Runoff farms in the Negev Highlands

5.1. Sir Flinders Petrie and Lady Petrie in Jerusalem in 1938

5.2. Tell Beit Mirsim excavation staff, Class of 1932

5.3. Nelson Glueck on survey in Transjordan

5.4. Yigael Yadin

5.5. Yohanan Aharoni

5.6. Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription

5.7. The Tel Dan Inscription

10.1. Classical orders of columns

10.2. Fortress-palace of Iraq al-Amir, Jordan

10.3. Monumental stone-cut tombs in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem

10.4. The stamped handle of a Rhodian amphora

10.5. A miqvah discovered at Magdala

10.6. Bronze prutah of Alexander Jannaeus

10.7. The Givati parking lot excavations

10.8. The synagogue at Gamla in the Golan Heights

10.9. A street in Magdala in Galilee

10.10. Synagogue ruins in New Testament Jericho

14.1. Map of Anatolia

16.1. Example of a tree model

16.2. Example of the dialect continuum model

19.1. Pharaoh as giant smiting the enemy

19.2. Siege of the city of Lachish

19.3. Replica of the Et-Tel/Bethsaida Stela

19.4. Cylinder seal and modern impression

19.5. Scarab seal and modern impression

19.6. Judean Pillar Figurines

19.7. Yehud coin

21.1. Winged composite creature

21.2. The Stele of the Vultures

21.3. Sargons Victory Stele

21.5. Painting of the investiture of the king of Mari

21.6. Statue of a goddess with a flowing vase

21.7. Statue of King Gudea of Laga

21.8. Seal impression from an Akkadian cylinder-seal

21.9. Orthostat reliefs

22.1. Bronze figurine

22.2. Judean Pillar Figurines

22.3. Pithos A

22.4. Projection drawing of Pithos A

22.5. Projection drawing of Pithos B

22.6. Detail of Pithos A

22.7. Limestone scaraboid

22.8. Bone scaraboid

22.9. Scaraboid from Beth-Shemesh

22.10. Scaraboid from Tell en-Nasbeh

33.1. Illustration of captive Sea Peoples

33.2. Map of settlements destroyed, attacked, or abandoned in the East Mediterranean

33.3. Illustration of the Sea Peoples fleet destroyed at the eastern delta river mouth

34.1. Sheshonq conquest list on the Bubastite Portal of the Karnak temple

34.2. Partial Egyptian victory stele with cartouche of Sheshonq I

34.3. Possible itinerary for the Levantine campaign of Sheshonq I

36.1. The Mesha Inscription

57.1. Aerial photograph of Khirbat en-Nahas

57.2. A shaft mine in the Wadi Khalid in Faynan

58.1. A traditional potter in her courtyard

58.2. People pounding clay with a bent tree branch

58.3. Traditional potters in Cyprus

58.4. Communal Kornos Pottery Cooperative kiln

58.5. Traditional kiln, with a permanent roof

58.6. Ovens, jars, cooking pots, and flowerpots stacked in the Cooperative kiln

58.7. A traditional potter creates a temporary kiln door from factory-made bricks

58.8. Reconstruction of a two-story late-thirteenth-century house

59.1. An Iraqi woman baking with a tannur

59.2. Experimental archaeology at Tel Halif, Israel

59.3. Ninth-century traditional-style cooking pots

63.1. Plan of Tell el-Fara (North)

63.2. Graph representing (weighted) inequality at Tell el-Fara (North)

63.3. Graph representing (weighted) inequality at Beersheba II

63.4. Plan of the village of Khirbet Jemein

63.5. Graph representing (weighted) inequality at Khirbet Jemein

63.6. Graph representing (weighted) inequality at Beit Aryeh

Contributors

Editors

Jonathan S. Greer (PhD, The Pennsylvania State University), Associate Professor of Old Testament, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan

John W. Hilber (PhD, University of Cambridge), Professor of Old Testament, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan

John H. Walton (PhD, Hebrew Union College), Professor of Old Testament, Wheaton College and Graduate School, Wheaton, Illinois

Authors

Peter Altmann (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary), Research Associate and Instructor in Old Testament, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Elizabeth Arnold (PhD, University of Calgary), Associate Professor of Archaeology, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Richard E. Averbeck (PhD, Dropsie College), Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois

David W. Baker (PhD, University of London), Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland, Ohio

William D. Barker (PhD, University of Cambridge), Professor of Biblical Studies and Director of the Center for Faith and Inquiry, Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts

Daniel Bodi (PhD, Union Theological Seminary), Professor of History of Religions of Antiquity, University of ParisSorbonne, Paris, France

Oded Borowski (PhD, University of Michigan), Professor of Biblical Archaeology and Hebrew, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Annie F. Caubet (PhD, University of ParisSorbonne), Louvre Museum, Department of Oriental Antiquities, Paris, France

Mark W. Chavalas (PhD, University of CaliforniaLos Angeles), Professor of History, University of WisconsinLa Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin

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