The Archaeology of Israel

This challenging volume offers a timely and extensive overview of the current state of archaeology in Israel. Contributed by leading scholars, the essays focus on current problems and cutting-edge issues, ranging from reviews of ongoing excavations to new analytical approaches. Of interest not only to archaeologists, but to social historians as well, the topics include archaeology and social history, archaeology and ethnicity, as well as the overarching issue of how texts and archaeological knowledge are to be combined in the reconstruction of ancient Israel.

Foreword	p. 9
Abbreviations	p. 11
List of Figures	p. 13
List of Contributors	p. 15
Introduction	p. 17
Politics and Archaeology	p. 34
Archaeology, Political Culture, and Culture in Israel	p. 48
Structuring the Past: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Symbolic Authority of Archaeological Monuments	p. 62
Historical Imaginings, Ideological Gestures: W. F. Albright and the 'Reasoning Faculties of Man'	p. 82
Tel Miqne-Ekron: An Iron Age I Philistine Settlement in Canaan	p. 96
The Yigael Yadin Memorial Excavations at Hazor, 1990-93: Aims and Preliminary Results	p. 107
Discoveries at Tel Dor	p. 128
The Excavations at Tel Beth Shean during the Years 1989-94	p. 144
The Revolutionary Effects of Archaeology on the Study of Jewish History: The Case of the Ancient Synagogue	p. 166
Jewish Ritual Baths - Interpreting the Digs and the Texts: Some Issues in the Social History of Second Temple Judaism	p. 190
Pots and People Revisited: Ethnic Boundaries in the Iron Age I	p. 216
Can Pig Remains Be Used for Ethnic Diagnosis in the Ancient Near East?	p. 238
Group Identification and Ethnicity in the Construction of the Early State of Israel: From the Outside Looking in	p. 271
Philology, Theology, and Archaeology: What Kind of History Do We Want, and What Is Possible?	p. 290
Text and Artifact: Two Monologues?	p. 311
Index of References	p. 342
Index of Authors	p. 345
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