Exploring the Narrative Jerusalem and Jordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages: Papers in Honour of Margreet Steiner

This volume brings together a number of scholars who use archaeology as a tool to question the sometimes easy assumptions made by historians and biblical scholars about the past. It combines essays from both archaeologists and biblical scholars whose subject matter, whilst differing widely in both geographical and chronological terms, also shares a critical stance used to examine the relationship between 'dirt' archaeology and the biblical world as presented to us through written sources.

Noor Mulder is an independent scholar and classical archaeologist.
Eveline van der Steen is a Near Eastern archaeologist with a special interest the archaeology of the Southern Levant. She is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, UK. 

Introduction \ 1. Margreet Steiner's career, by her friends, Kees Franken et al \ 2. The people who did not die? Piotr Bienkowski \ 3. Were Casemate walls ever filled?, Dinie Boas \ 4. Temples, Texts and
Textile production in Iron Age Jordan. What textile and textile production remainscan tell about the religion of Israel, Jeannette Boertien \ 5. Recycling in the Biblical World: Potsherds and mended pots, Michele Daviau \ 6. Local cult in Iron Age Jerusalem, Alon de Groot \ 7. Colour in figurines.The significance of colour in the use and research of Persian figurines of Jerusalem, Izaak de Hulster \ 8. Northern Jordan in the Assyrian period: Gilead is supposed to be one of the areas depopulated in the 2nd half of the 8th century by Tiglath Pileser and his successors (2 Kings 15:29), Meindert Dijkstra and Karel Vriezen \ 9. Jerusalem's expansion during IA II, Avraham Faust \ 10. Identifying the Ophel: Jerusalem, Samaria and Dibon, Norma Franklin \ 11. The Late Persian period in Central Jordan: The
relation between history and archaeology inthe central Jordan Valley and surrounding regions, Niels Groot \ 12. Iron Age cooking pots at Tell Umeiri and Hisban, Larry Herr \ 13. The Belgian Excavations
at Lehun (Jordan). The importance ofthe Geo-Archaeological Museum of Lehun for understanding history, Denise Homes Fredericq \ 14. Jerusalem in the Bronze and the Beginning of Iron Ages: Biblical
Narratives, the Archaeological Evidences and Margreet Steiner, Zeidan Kafafi \ 15. The Late Bronze and Iron Age landscape of the Jordan Valley: the start of a long tradition, Eva Kapteyn \ 16. The search for King David's Tomb, Ann Killebrew \ 17. Archaeological voices from Jerusalem, 1948-1974, Raz Kletter \ 18. Iron Age II potters and their craft. What pottery remains excavated at Tall al-'Umayri contribute to our knowledge of potters and the economy of pottery, Gloria London \ 19. The ideological rise of Jerusalem in the Iron Age. Relationship between ideology and archaeology in the holy city, Ed Noort \ 20. Understanding the ‘Pit People'. The Jordan Valley during the late Iron Age and Persian Period, Lucas Petit \ 21. Jerusalem in the Late Bronze Age. The question of Jerusalem's
existence in the Late Bronze Age, Kay Prag \ 22. the pottery of Khirbet Mudayna, Bruce Routledge \ 23. The Siloam Tunnel, its Length and Function, David Ussishkin \ 24. 19th century Travellers
in Jerusalem. The impressions of 19th century travellers, and how they related to their perception of Jerusalem as a holy city, Eveline van der Steen \ 25. Jerusalem: Why on Earth Is It in Heaven? The relationship and interaction between the perception of the heavenly Jerusalem, and the reality of the earthly Jerusalem, Cor de Vos \ Bibliography \ Index