Confronting the Past : Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of William G. Dever.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Archaeology -- The Sad Fate of Statues and the Mutilated Statues of Hazor -- An Archaeologist on Mars -- Of Pots and Paradigms: Interpreting the Intermediate Bronze Age in Israel/Palestine -- A Decorated Ivory Lid from Tel Miqne-Ekron -- Har Resisim 126: An Ephemeral Early Bronze Age Site -- Gezer Rectified: The Dating of the South Gate Complex -- An Early Iron Age I House with a Cultic Corner at Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan -- Aphrodite/Aštarte on Horseback -- Planning a Paleolithic Picnic -- The Archaic Palace at Ebla: A Royal Building between Early Bronze Age IV Band Middle Bronze Age I -- Tel Beth-Shean and the Fate of Mounds in the Intermediate Bronze Age -- Early Bronze Age IV Transitions: An Archaeometallurgical Study -- The Chipped Stone Assemblage from Be'er Resisim in the Negev Highlands: A Preliminary Study -- Podium Structures with Lateral Access: Authority Ploys in Royal Architecture in the Iron Age Levant -- Chariot Fittings from Philistine Ashkelon -- Goddesses and Cults at Tel Dor -- Cypriot Anthropomorphic Figurines of a Certain Type -- Part 2: Bible and Ancient Israel -- Women and the Worship of Yahweh in Ancient Israel -- Purity Strategies and Political Interests in the Policy of Nehemiah -- Proto-Globalization and Proto-Secularization in Ancient Israel -- The Miraculous Wine of Cana in Its Galilean Ceramic Context -- The Archaeology of Memory: King Solomon, Chronology, and Biblical Representation -- Khirbet el-Qôm and Hebrew and Aramaic Epigraphy -- The Ecological Consequences of a Siege: A Marginal Note on Deuteronomy 20:19-20 -- Hierarchy or Heterarchy? Archaeology and the Theorizing of Israelite Society -- Israel and Its Neighbors Then and Now: Revisionist History and the Quest for History in the Middle East Today.

Ostracon No. 7 from Arad Reconsidered -- Looking for Bethel: An Exercise in Historical Geography -- In Solomon's Temple (1 Kings 6-7): Between Text and Archaeology -- Part 3: Ancient Near East -- The Predecessors of the Hyksos -- "His Seed Is Not": 13th-Century Israel -- Solomon and Gezer -- Hezekiah's Tribute, Long-Distance Trade, and the Wealth of Nations ca. 1000-600 BC: A New Perspective -- Gezer and Circumcision -- Covenant and Blood Rituals: Understanding Exodus 24:3-8 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context -- Trade Relations between Mari and Hazor (State of Research, 2002) -- Implicit Population Figures and Historical Sense: What Happened to 200,150 Judahites in 701 BCE? -- Indexes.

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