The archaeology of Israel
Subtitle: constructing the past, interpreting the present
By: edited by Neil Asher Silberman & David Small.
Contributors: Silberman, Neil Asher, 1950-; Small, David B.; Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies (Lehigh University)
Series: Journal for the study of the Old Testament.; 237
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Sheffield, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Antiquities -- Congresses.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Israel -- Congresses.; Israel -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Description: This volume represents an overview of the current state of archaeology in Israel. With contributions from leading scholars of archaeology in ancient Israel, the essays focus on current problems and cutting-edge issues, ranging from reviews of ongoing excavations to new analytical approaches.

Of interest not only to archaeologists, but social historians as well, the topics include archaeology and social history, archaeology and ethnicity, and issues relating to combining texts and archaeology in the reconstruction of ancient Israel.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
"Presented in this volume are papers delivered at a conference of the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University entitled 'The archaeology of Israel: constructing the past, interpreting the present' held on the Lehigh campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, May 22-24, 1994"--Introd.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Neil Asher Silberman and David B. Small; title: Politics and archaeology / Amos Elon; title: Archaeology, political culture, and culture in Israel / Yaacov Shavit; title: Structuring the past : Israelis, Palestinians, and the symbolic authority of archaeological monuments / Neil Asher Silberman; title: Historical imaginings, ideological gestures : W.F. Albright and the 'reasoning faculties of man' / Burke O. Long; title: Tel Miqne-Ekron : an Iron Age I Philistine settlement in Canaan / Trude Dothan; title: The Yigael Yadin memorial excavations at Hazor, 1990-93 : aims and preliminary results / Amnon Ben-Tor; title: Discoveries at Tel Dor / Ephraim Stern; title: The excavations at Tel Beth Shean during the years 1989-94 / Amihai Mazar; title: The revolutionary effects of archaeology on the study of Jewish history : the case of the ancient synagogue / Lee I. Levine; title: Jewish ritual baths : interpreting the digs and the texts : some issues in the social history of Second Temple Judaism / Benjamin G. Wright III; title: Pots and people revisited : ethnic boundaries in the Iron Age I / Israel Finkelstein; title: Can pig remains be used for ethnic diagnosis in the ancient Near East? / Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish; title: Group identification and ethnicity in the construction of the early state of Israel : from the outside looking in / David B. Small; title: Philology, theology, and archaeology : what kind of history do we want, and what is possible? / William G. Dever; title: Text and artifact : two monologues? / Baruch Halpern.