Preliminary Excavation Reports: Sardis, Idalion, and Tell El-Handaquq North (Annual of Asor)

History

Dever, W. G.

Ancient Civilizations

American Schools of Oriental Research

Taanach I: Studies in the iron age pottery (Excavation reports)

Rast, Walter E.

Caesarea Maritima, a port town on the Mediterranean coast about 40km north of modern Tel Aviv, was founded by King Herod the Great sometime shortly after 22 BC and flourished as a major urban centre during the first six centuries C.E. The 411 inscriptions included in this volume represent the finds of a quarter of a century of investigation at the site and bear crucial testimony to the civil and military organization, urban construction, religion and funerary practices of an important Roman and Byzantine provincial centre. In addition, the language of the Greek and Latin inscriptions provides important insights into the evolution of those languages as well as information on the demographic, ethnic and social make-up of the population of Caesarea Maritima in the Roman and Late Antique Periods.

The Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima (American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports)

Lehmann, C.M.

Welcome to ASOR's 2013 Annual Meeting History of ASOR Program at a Glance Schedule of Business Meetings, Receptions, and Events Academic Program Projects on Parade Poster Session Members' Meeting Agenda Exhibitor List Ten Things To Do in Baltimore ACOR Jordanian Travel Scholarships ASOR Development Update Fiscal Year 2013 Honor Roll Annual Fund Pledge Card Excavation Grants and Fellowships Awarded Hotel and General Information 2014 Annual Meeting Registration Form Academic Program Updates for the 2014 Annual Meeting ASOR Staff ASOR Board of Trustees Committees and Members 2013 ASOR Membership Form 2012 Honors and Awards ASOR Journals The Contributions of Frank Moore Cross, A Joint Session of SBL and ASOR Institutional Members Overseas Centers ASOR Scholarship Program Abstracts for Papers and Poster Presentations Index of Sessions Index of Participants Notes and Contacts Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel - Floor Plans

Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts Book 2013 (Asor Annual Meeting Program)

ASOR Staff

Americas

Desire, Discord, and Death: Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Myth (Asor Books)

Walls, Neal H.

Religion & Spirituality

The three essays presented in this volume reveal the symbolic complexity and poetic visions of ancient Near Eastern mythology. The author explores the interrelated themes of erotic desire, divine conflict, and death's realm in selected ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian mythological narratives using contemporary methods of literary analysis. Topics include the construction of desire in the Gilgamesh epic, a psychoanalytic approach to 'The Contendings of Horus and Seth', and gender and the exercise of power in the stormy romance of Nergal and Ereshkigal. Walls' fresh treatment of these three important myths brings them to life for the specialist and mythology buff alike.

Desire, Discord and Death: Approaches to Near Eastern Myth (Asor Books)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

This volume presents the stratigraphy and architectural remains of the tell of ancient (biblical) Shechem on the eastern outskirts of the modern municipality of Nablus, in what was at the time of excavation the independent village of Balatah. First identified as an ancient ruin and proposed as ancient Shechem in 1903, the site was excavated by an Austro-German team in the period between 1913 and 1934, and by the Drew-McCormick Archaeological Expedition, later named the Joint Expedition, between 1956 and 1973. Now, 87 years after Ernest Sellin began the dig, and 27 years after the expedition mounted by G. Ernest Wright left the field, this volume sets out to give that sort of portrayal to this mound of ancient cities that began its history at least 4000 years BCE and ended its premodern history in 107 BCE.

Shechem III (ASOR Arch Reports) vol.1

Edward F. Campbell

Middle East

This volume presents the stratigraphy and architectural remains of the tell of ancient (biblical) Shechem on the eastern outskirts of the modern municipality of Nablus, in what was at the time of excavation the independent village of Balatah. First identified as an ancient ruin and proposed as ancient Shechem in 1903, the site was excavated by an Austro-German team in the period between 1913 and 1934, and by the Drew-McCormick Archaeological Expedition, later named the Joint Expedition, between 1956 and 1973. Now, 87 years after Ernest Sellin began the dig, and 27 years after the expedition mounted by G. Ernest Wright left the field, this volume sets out to give that sort of portrayal to this mound of ancient cities that began its history at least 4000 years BCE and ended its premodern history in 107 BCE.

Shechem III (ASOR Arch Reports) vol. 2

Campbell Jr., Edward F.

These essays were written in honour of William G Dever, doyen of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona, where he was Professor from 1975 until his retirement in 2001. The contents include: Bronze Age Rural Economic Transitions in the Jordan Valley (Steven E Falconer, et al); Merenptah's Inscription and Reliefs and the Origin of Israel (Michael G Hasel); Slouching toward Beersheva: Chalcolithic Mortuary Practices in Local and Regional Context (Alexander H Joffe); Four-Room Structures at Late Bronze/Iron I Age Hill Country Workstations (Gloria London); The Birth of the Ancestors: The Meanings of Human Figurines in Near Eastern Neolithic Villages (Jonathan B Mabry); Pottery Production and Demand in a Middle Bronze Age Levantine Village: Ceramic Specialization and Rural Development (Bonnie Magness-Gardiner); Israel on the Horizon: The Iron I Settlement of the Galilee (Beth Alpert Nakhai); The Emergence of Ammon: A View of the Rise of Iron Age Polities from the Other Side of the Jordan (Randall W Younker).

The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in Honor of William G Dever (Annual of Asor)

Nakhai, Beth Alpert

This report presents the archaeological evidence for human settlement and land use in the Tafila-Busayra region of southern Jordan from the Palaeolithic (ca. 500,000 BP) to the 20th century AD. The 480-square-kilometre survey stretched from Tafila and Busayra in the west to Jurf ad-Darawish in the east, adjoining areas earlier surveyed by MacDonald - the Wadi al-Hasa (1979-1983) and the southern Ghor and northeast Arabah (1985-1986). Using a combination of random and purposive sampling, reinvestigation of documented sites, and aerial photography, the survey recorded some 290 sites, ranging from the well known Iron Age citadel at Busayra to architectural ruins, camp sites and cemeteries along with isolated sherd or lithic scatters and other cultural features such as watch towers, terraces, water channels, quarries and roads.

The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey 1999-2001, West-Central Jordan (Archaeological Reports)

MacDonald, Burton

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