The Near East in the southwest
Subtitle: essays in honor of William G. Dever
By: edited by Beth Alpert Nakhai.
Contributors: Nakhai, Beth Alpert, 1951-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research ;; v. 58
Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Bronze age -- Palestine; Palestine -- Antiquities; Israel -- Antiquities; Middle East -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biography of William G. Dever; title: Students of William G. Dever; title: Introduction / Beth Alpert Nakhai; title: Bronze age rural economic transitions in the Jordan Valley / Steven E. Falconer, Patricia L. Fall, Mary C. Metzger and Lee Lines; title: Merenptah's inscription and reliefs and the origin of Israel / Michael G. Hasel; title: Slouching toward Beersheva : chalcolithic mortuary practices in local and regional context / Alexander H. Joffe; title: Four-room structures at late Bronze/Iron I age hill country workstations / Gloria London; title: The birth of the ancestors : the meanings of human figurines in Near Eastern neolithic villages / Jonathan B. Mabry; title: Pottery production and demand in a middle Bronze age Levantine village : ceramic specialization and rural development / Bonnie Magness-Gardiner; title: Israel on the horizon : the Iron I settlement of the Galilee / Beth Alpert Nakhai; title: The emergence of Ammon : a view of the rise of Iron age polities from the other side of the Jordan / Randall W. Younker.