Symbiosis, symbolism, and the power of the past Canaan, ancient Israel, and their neighbors from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina (Eisenbrauns, 2003)
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Islands in the Sea : Aegean Polities as Levantine Neighbors / Sarah P. Morris -- The Case of Ugarit and Carchemish: A Contrast / Annie Caubet -- Greece and Anatolia in the Early Iron Age : The Archaeological Evidence and the Literary Tradition / James D. Muhly -- The Mediterranean Economy : "Globalization" at the End of the Second Millennium B.C.E. / Susan Sherratt -- The Patrimonial Kingdom of Solomon / Lawrence E. Stager -- City-States to States : Polity Dynamics in the 10th-9th Centuries B.C.E. / Israel Finkelstein -- Remarks on Biblical Traditions and Archaeological Evidence Concerning Early Israel / Amihai Mazar -- Assyria's Expansion in the 8th and 7th Centuries and Its Long-Term Repercussions in the West / Simo Parpola -- Egyptian Interventions in the Levant in Iron Age II / Kenneth A. Kitchen -- Early Achaemenid Iran : New Considerations / David Stronach -- Palestine among the Empires from the 4th to the 1st Century B.C.E. : Impact and Reaction / Doron Mendels --
- Temple or "Bêt Marzeaḥ"? / Manfred Bietak -- Amarna and Later : Aspects of Social History / Anson F. Rainey -- The Aegean and the Orient : Cultic Interactions / Trude Dothan -- The Cult of Astarte in Cyprus / Vassos Karageorghis -- False Dichotomies in Descriptions of Israelite Religion : A Problem, Its Origin, and a Proposed Solution / Ziony Zevit -- Mesopotamian Imperialism and Israelite Religion : A Case Study from the Second Isaiah / Peter Machinist -- When the Heavens Darkened : Yahweh, El, and the Divine Astral Family in Iron Age II Judah / Mark S. Smith -- Israelite and Philistine Cult and the Archaeological Record in Iron Age II : The "Smoking Gun" Phenomenon / Seymour Gitin -- Phoenician Cult Expressions in the Persian Period / Edouard Lipiński -- The Phoenician Source of Palestinian Cults at the End of the Iron Age / Ephraim Stern -- Late Israelite Astronomies and the Early Greeks / Baruch Halpern -- The Jewish World and the Coming of Rome / John J. Collins --
- Helios and the Zodiac Cycle in Ancient Palestinian Synagogues / Jodi Magness -- Nine Months among the Peasants in the Palestinian Highlands : An Anthropological Perspective on Local Religion in the Early Iron Age / Karel van der Toorn -- Building Identity : The Four-Room House and the Israelite Mind / Shlomo Bunimovitz and Avraham Faust -- Material Remains and Social Relations : Women's Culture in Agrarian Households of the Iron Age / Carol Meyers -- The Clan-Based Economy of Biblical Israel / Baruch A. Levine -- At Home with the Goddess / Susan Ackerman -- The Family in Persian Period Judah : Some Textual Reflections / H.G.M. Williamson -- Roman-Period Houses from the Galilee : Domestic Architecture and Gendered Spaces / Eric M. Meyers -- Apocryphal Women : From Fiction to (Arti)fact / Amy-Jill Levine -- Syro-Palestinian and Biblical Archaeology : Into the Next Millennium / William G. Dever --