These lectures investigate the numerous miniature baked clay images from Canaan, Israel and Judah (c. 1600-600 BC). They constitute vital evidence for the imagery and domestic rituals of ordinary people, but significantly are not explicitly mentioned in the Old Testament. These terracottas are treated as a distinctive phenomenon with roots deep in prehistory. Attention is focused on whether or not the female representations are worshippers of unknown deities or images of known goddesses, particularly in Early Israelite religion.

Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East (Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology)

History

MOOREY, P. R. S.

Ancient Civilizations

British Academy

This book catalogs the outstanding collection of stamp seals at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, covering 246 seals up to the Seleucid period. The late Buchanan's catalogue entries have been combined with fully referenced introductory sections written by Moorey, and each seal is illustrated twice to show the design and the shape of its back, crucial to any typological system. Also included is Buchanan's illustrated system for the terminology of stamp seals.

Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum

Reference

Ashmolean Museum

Buchanan, Briggs

Catalogs & Directories

Oxford University Press

This is the first systematic attempt to survey in detail the archaeological evidence for the crafts and craftsmanship of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 8000-300 BC). P.R.S. Moorey reviews briefly the textual evidence, and goes on to examine in detail a wide range of crafts and materials: stones, both common and ornamental, animal products, ceramics, glazed materials and glass, metals, and building materials. With a comprehensive bibliography, this generously illustrated volume will be a key work of reference for archaeologists and those interested in the early history of crafts and technology, as well as for specialists in the ancient Near East.

Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence

Ancient Persian bronzes in the Adam Collection

FABER

This historical survey of the relationship between archaeology and biblical studies in the archaeological excavations in Palestine at Tell el-Hesi from 1840 to 1990 concentrates on the work of major excavators and scholars. It is a panoramic overview of the methods and theories that served to illuminate the archaeology of the Holy Land, beginning with and introductory chapter that covers the early pioneering years before the work of Pitt Rivers and Petrie.

A Century of Biblical Archaeology

Westminster/John Knox Press

Ancient bronzes from Luristan

BRITISH MUSEUM

Series; The Making of the Past. Physical description; 151 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 137. Subjects; Bible. O.T. - History of Biblical events. Bible. Old Testament - Antiquities. Bible. Old Testament - History of Biblical events. Bible - Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) - Middle East. Phoenicians - History. Excavations (Archaeology) - Near East. Middle East - Antiquities. Iran - History - To 640. Middle East - History - To 622. Near East - History - To 622. Ancient Middle East, to ca B.C. 300. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.

Biblical Lands

Elsevier/Phaidon

Describes discoveries made during archaeological excavations at the site of the ancient city of Ur in Iraq, providing information on the Sumerian civilization

Ur of the Chaldees': A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur

Woolley, Leonard

Cornell Univ Pr

Surveys archaelogical discoveries made in the Middle East since 1958 and describes what we know about life in the region during different periods of time

The Bible and Recent Archaeology

Politics & Social Sciences

Kenyon, Kathleen

Social Sciences

Westminster John Knox Pr

Cemeteries of the First Millennium B.C. at Deve Hüyük, near Carchemish, salvaged by T. E. Lawrence and C. L. Woolley in 1913: (with a catalogue ... London and Oxford) (BAR International)

Archaeology

British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd

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