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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.
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