Tell it in Gath : studies in the history and archaeology of Israel. Essays in honor of Aren M. Maeir on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday /
edited by Itzhaq Shai [y otros cinco].
- xvi, 1093 páginas : ilustraciones ; 31 centímetros.
- Ägypten und Altes Testament ; 90 .
The Rising Urban Entities: Studies in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant -- "and the Canaanite was then in the land": The middle and late Bronze Age -- "We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines": The origins, material culture and interactions of the Philistines -- "And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines": Entering the third decade of the tell es-Safi/Gath archaeological project --"Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it". The aramean realm -- "are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?": New perspectives on the biblical accounts -- "And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron": Textual and archaeological research of the iron age -- "Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve": Methodological approaches to the archaeology of the Ancient Near east -- "It's intereesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up": Reports on archaeological excavations and finds -- "Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today": Various other studies.