Urbanism in antiquity
Subtitle: from Mesopotamia to Crete
By: edited by Walter E. Aufrecht, Neil A. Mirau & Steven W. Gauley.
Contributors: Aufrecht, Walter Emanuel, 1942-; Mirau, Neil A. 1952-; Gauley, Steven W.
Series: Journal for the study of the Old Testament.; 244
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Sheffield, Eng
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Antiquities.; Cities and towns, Ancient -- Middle East -- Congresses.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East -- Congresses.; Urbanization -- Middle East -- Congresses.; Middle East -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Notes: In English; one contribution in French.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Papers from a conference at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, in January 1996.
Table of contents: title: Spatial perspectives on early urban development in Mesopotamia / E.B. Banning; title: Writing as a factor in the rise of urbanism / Ronald F.G. Sweet; title: Urbanisation et 'redistribution' de surplus agricoles en Mésopotamie septentrionale (3000-2500 av. J.-C.) / Michel Fortin; title: Craft specialization and the rise of secondary urbanism : a view from the Southern Levant / Steven A. Rosen; title: The agricultural base of urbanism in the Early Bronze II-III Levant / Arlene Miller Rosen; title: The social context of early iron working in the Levant / Neil A. Mirau; title: Urbanization and Northwest Semitic inscriptions of the late Bronze and Iron Ages / Walter E. Aufrecht; title: Learning to love the king : urbanism and the state in Iron Age Moab / Bruce Routledge; title: Urbanism at Tell el-ʻUmeiri during the late Bronze IIB-Iron IA transition / Larry G. Herr; title: Tell Jawa : a case study of Ammonite urbanism during Iron Age II / P.M. Michèle Daviau; title: Archaeology, urbanism, and the rise of the Israelite state / William G. Dever; title: The urban center of Jerusalem and the development of the literature of the Hebrew Bible / Ehud Ben Zvi; title: The ancient Egyptian 'city' : figment or reality? / Donald B. Redford; title: Temple as the center in ancient Egyptian urbanism / Carolyn Routledge; title: 'Metro' Nea Paphos : suburban sprawl in southwestern Cyprus in the Hellenistic and earlier Roman periods / David W. Rupp; title: Palace-centered polities in eastern Crete : neopalatial Petras and its neighbors / Metaxia Tsipopoulou; title: A viiw from the outskirts : realignments from modern to postmodern in the archaeological study of urbanism / D. Bruce Mackay.