The session is intended to bring together scholars with different areas of expertise and perspective in the hope that a narrative history can be produced and published. The selections for the first year are the Transjordan tribes of Reuben and Gad. The purpose of this session is to consider how to integrate the archaeological record of the Transjordan and the text of the Hebrew Bible into a single narrative story. Our intention is that this session and subsequent ones will serve as a model or case study both in the pursuit of that goal here and for other biblical topics as well. Virtually all of the Moabite place-names mentioned in the Hebrew Bible pertain to the region north of the Arnon.
Responses can include military, political, economic, religious, literary and other consideration.
Compare the material culture of Transjordan and Cisjordan in the Iron II period. College 2900 Purchase Street Purchase, NY 10577. I will be away at AOS beginning next Sunday. E-mail response indicating your intention to submit a paper abstract are appreciated. First First Int Cong on the Arch of the ANE Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed.