The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

Carolina López-Ruiz is a Professor of Classics at The Ohio State University. She studies the interaction between Greek and Near Eastern cultures, with a focus on the Phoenicians and North-West Semitic cultures. Her books include Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia (Oxford University Press, 2016, with S. Celestino) Gods, Heroes and Monsters: A Sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Myths in Translation (second edition, 2018, 1st ed. 2014), When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East (Harvard University Press, 2010; published in Turkish 2012), and Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations (University of Chicago Press, 2009, co-editor with M. Dietler). She is preparing monographs on the Phoenicians and cultural contact in the orientalizing Mediterranean.

Brian R. Doak (PhD Harvard University) is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University, just outside of Portland, Oregon. He is the recipient of the Aviram Prize for archaeological research (2012) as well as the George Fox University Undergraduate Researcher of the Year (2014). He is the author of several books, including Phoenician Aniconism in its Mediterranean and Ancient Near Eastern Contexts (SBL Press, 2015), Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel (Oxford University Press, 2018), and the forthcoming Ancient Israel's Neighbors (Oxford University Press).

Introduction (Brian Doak and Carolina López-Ruiz)
Research Tools (Philip Schmitz)
Birth and Prospects of a Discipline (Nicholas Vella)


Part One: Histories

The East
Canaanite Roots and the Proto-Phoenician Period: c. 1300-1000 BCE (Ann E. Killebrew)
Phoenicia in the Later Iron Age: Tenth Century BCE to the Assyrian and Babylonian Periods (Guy Bunnens)
Tyre and its Colonial Expansion (María Eugenia Aubet Semmler)
Phoenicia under the Achaemenid Empire (Vadim Jigoulov)
The Hellenistic Period and Hellenization in Phoenicia (Corinne Bonnet)
Phoenicia in the Roman Empire (Julien Aliquot)
The Archaeology of Phoenician Cities (Hélène Sader)

The West
Early Carthage: From its Foundation to the Battle of Himera (ca. 814-480 BCE) (Hédi Dridi)
Classical-Hellenistic Carthage before the Punic Wars (479-265 BCE) (Dexter Hoyos)
The Punic Wars (264-146 BCE) (Christopher de Lisle)
Carthage after the Punic Wars and the Neo-Punic Legacy (Matthew Hobson)


Part Two: Areas of Culture

Language and Literature
The Language (Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo)
Inscriptions (Madadh Richey)
The Alphabet and its Legacy (Madadh Richey)
Phoenician Literature (Carolina López-Ruiz)

Religion
Religion (Paolo Xella)
Ritual and the Afterlife (Mireia López-Bertrán)
The tophet and Infant Sacrifice (Matthew McCarty)

Material Culture
Pottery and Trade (Francisco J. Núñez)
Art and Iconography (Eric Gubel)
Levantine Art in the Orientalizing Period (Marian Feldman)
Coins (John Betlyon)
Metallurgy and Other Technologies (Philip Andrew Johnston and Brett Kaufman)
Seafaring and Shipwreck Archaeology (Jeffrey P. Emanuel)
Residential Architecture (Roald Docter)
Agriculture (Carlos Gómez Bellard)

Part Three: Regional Studies and Interactions

The Levant (Gunnar Lehmann)
Cyprus (Sabine Fourrier)
The Aegean (Nicholaos Chr. Stampolidis)
The Italian Peninsula (Jeremy Hayne)
Sardinia (Andrea Roppa)
Sicily (Salvatore de Vincenzo)
Malta and Gozo (Maxine Anastasi and Nicholas Vella)
Ibiza (Benjamín Costa)
The Iberian Peninsula (José Luis López Castro)
Phoenicians in Portugal (Ana Margarida Arruda)
The Gadir-Tyre Axis (Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar)
North Africa: from the Atlantic to Algeria (Alfredo Mederos)
Phoenician Exploration (Duane W. Roller)

Part Four: Receptions

Phoenicians in the Hebrew Bible (Brian Doak)
Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Classical Literature (Josephine C. Quinn)
Neo-Phoenician Identities in the Roman Empire (Anthony Kaldellis)
Phoenicians and Carthaginians in the Western Imagination (Brien Garnand)
Phoenician Identity in Modern Lebanon (Claude Doumet-Serhal)
Punic Heritage in Tunisia (Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Peter van Dommelen)