Exploring the Narrative: Jerusalem and Jordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages
Overview
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 includes essays from both archaeologists and biblical scholars whose subject matter, whilst differing widely in both geographical and chronological terms, shares a critical stance used to examine the relationship between dirt archaeology and the biblical world as presented to us through written sources.
Key Features
- Clear and balanced window into the worlds inhabited by biblical characters
- Leading scholarship from a diverse field of disciplines
- Thorough examinations of Near Eastern history
Contents
- Part I: Jordan
- “The Assyrian Province of Gilead and the ‘Myth of the Empty Land’” by Meindert Dijkstra and Karel Vriezen
- “The Late Bronze and Iron Age Cultural Landscape of the Eastern Jordan Valley: The Start of a Long Tradition” by Eva Kaptijn
- “Organization of Pottery Production in the Iron Age: Evidence from Tell Hesban and Tell al-‘Umayri” by Gloria London and Robert D. Shuster
- “Regional Interaction in Ammon During the Iron Age IIC: An Insight into Regional Exchange Through Ceramics from the ‘Amman Citadel and Deir ‘Alla” by Niels C.F. Groot
- “A Late Iron Age I Ceramic Assemblage from Central Jordan: Integrating Form, Technology and Distribution” by Bruce Routledge, Stephanie Smith, Alexandra Mullan, Benjamin Porter, and Stanley Klassen
- “The Typology of Iron Age Cooking Pots at Tall al-‘Umayri, Jordan” by Larry G. Herr
- “Recycling in the Ancient World: Potsherds and Mended Pots” by P.M. Michèle Daviau, with a contribution by Jeannette Boertien
- “Public or Domestic? Temple, Text and Textile Production at Khirbet al-Mudayne in Moab” by Jeannette H. Boertien
- “The Iron Age Bread Ovens in the Kitchen of Khirbat al-Mudayna, Jordan” by Noor Mulder-Hymans
- “Understanding the ‘Pit People’: An Imaginary Conversation in the Central Jordan Valley During the Late Seventh or Sixth Century BCE” by Lucas P. Petit
- “Were the Casemates Ever Filled?” by Dinie Boas-Vedder
- “In Search of Edomite Burials” by Piotr Bienkowski
- Part II: Jerusalem
- “‘The Situation Is More Complicated’: Archaeology and Text in the Historical Reconstruction of the Iron Age IIA Southern Levant” by Koert van Bekkum
- “Jerusalem in the Bronze and the Beginning of the Iron Ages: Biblical Narratives, Literary Sources, the Archaeological Evidence and Margreet Steiner” by Zeidan A. Kafafi
- “On Jerusalem’s Expansion During the Iron Age II” by Avraham Faust
- “Dispelling the Fog (
אפל ) Around the Ophel (צפֶל )” by Norma Franklin - “Colour Remains on Figurines from Jerusalem” by Izaak J. de Hulster
- “Jerusalem: Why on Earth Is It in Heaven? A Comparison between Galatians 4:21–31 and 2 Baruch 4:1–7” by J. Cornelis de Vos
- “Exploring Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century” by Eveline J. van der Steen
- “Charles Warren’s Kidron Valley Tunnels, Bir Ayyub, and the Location of Biblical En Rogel” by Shimon Gibson
- “Archaeological Voices from Jerusalem” by Raz Kletter
Product Details
- Title: Exploring the Narrative: Jerusalem and Jordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages
- Editors: Noor Mulder, Jeannette Boertien, and Eveline van der Steen
- Series: Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies (LHBOTS)
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Publication Date: 2013
- Pages: 352
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: Bible Backgrounds
About the Editors
Noor Mulder is an independent scholar and classical archaeologist.
Jeannette Boertien is an archaeologist in the faculty of theology and religious studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Eveline van der Steen is a Near Eastern archaeologist and an honorary research fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.