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.

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.

Jeannette Boertien is an archaeologist in the faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands Her research focuses on archaeological textiles and technological, social and religious aspects of textile production.

Noor Mulder is an independent scholar and classical archaeologist.

JORDAN
Meinders Dijkstra and Karel Vriezen
1. The Assyrian Province of Gilead and the 'Myth of the Empty Land'
Eva Kapteyn
2. The Late Bronze and Iron Age Cultural Landscape of the Eastern Jordan Valley: The Start of a Long Tradition
Gloria London and Robert Schuster
3. Organization of Pottery Production in the Iron Age: Evidence from Tell Hesban and Tell el-Umayri
Niels Groot
4. Regional Interaction in Ammon During the Iron Age IIc: An Insight into Regional Exchange Through Ceramics from the Amman Citadel and Tell Deir Alla
Bruce Routledge et al
5. A Late Iron Age I Ceramic Assemblage from Central Jordan: Integrating Form, Technology and Distribution
Larry Herr
6. The Typology of Iron Age Cooking Pots at Tall al-?Umayri, Jordan
Michele Daviau
7. Recycling in the Ancient World: Potsherds and Mended Pots
Jeannette Boertien
8. Public or Domestic? Temple, Text and Textile Production at Khirbet al-Mudayna in Moab
Noor Mulder
9. The Bread Ovens of Khirbet Mudayna al-Thamad
Lucas Petit
10. Understanding the Pit People
Dinie Boas
11. Were the Casemates Ever Filled?
Piotr Bienkowski
12. In Search of Edomite Burials

JERUSALEM
Koert van Bekkum
13. 'The Situation is More Complicated': Archaeology and Text in the Historical Reconstruction of the Iron Age IIa Southern Levant
Zeidan Kafafi
14. Jerusalem in the Bronze and the Beginning of the Iron Ages: Biblical Narratives, Literary Sources, the Archaeological Evidence and Margreet Steiner
Avraham Faust
15. In Jerusalem's Expansion during the Iron Age II
Norma Franklin
16. Dispelling the Fog Around the Ophel
Izaak De Hulster
17. Colour Remains on Figurines from Jerusalem.
Cor de Vos
18. Jerusalem: Why on Earth is it in Heaven?
Eveline Van der Steen
19. Exploring Jerusalem in the 19th Century
Shimon Gibson
20. Charles Warren's Kidron Valley Tunnels, Bir Ayyub, and the Location of Biblical En Rogel
Raz Kletter
21. Archaeological voices from Jerusalem