The Documentary Hypothesis and the Composition of the Pentateuch

Cassuto, U.

Religion & Spirituality

Eisenbrauns

A Commentary on the Book of Exodus

The International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economics, no. 1Essays on the development of private landownership and its socio-political factors in ancient Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Phoenicia, and Palestine.

Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical World

Business & Money

Levineeds, Baruch

Economics

The second volume in an ongoing series sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), "Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near East" examines the impact of debt, private land ownership, and urbanization on ancient societies. Evidence of privatization of land is supported by archaeological data, surviving documents, and financial records.  This volume contains three sets of papers ranging from the Ice Age through early Egypt and Bronze Age Sumer, Babylonia, and Israel, given by archaeologists, economists, Assyriologists, and Egyptologists.  The first set of papers deals with the social cosmology of early urban areas as ritual centers. The second set focuses on the physical archaeology of Near Eastern cities and reconstructs their land-use patterns. The final set examines what Assyriologists have been able to extract from the cuneiform record concerning urban land use, land tenure, and the emergence of real estate as something privately owned and transferable.  One of the most valuable parts of this volume is the oral discussion of each paper by the participants. Highlighting the different methodologies used in each discipline and the difficulties in establishing a common vocabulary, these discussions raise universal questions concerning ancient economies and their relevancy to long-term economic trends.  The first volume in this series was "Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical World," edited by Michael Hudson and Baruch A. Levine (Peabody Museum Bulletin 5, ISBN 0-87365-955-4).

Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near East (Peabody Museum Bulletin, #7)

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Levine, Baruch

Biblical Archaeologist Reader: 001

Freedman, David Noel

Wright, G.Ernest

<p>This new and attractively printed and illustrated edition of "The Other Side of the Jordan" serves to portray one of the greatest single-handed archaeological achievements of the century. The desert and the sown land - what special fascination this gives to the study of the Near East! In between them to this day are a floating population. Sometimes they settled and built towns. More often they roamed with their flocks, home-base being where they grew one crop a year on marginal land. Many are the theories to explain them, who they are and what they have accomplished. Yet what are the facts? What actually can one find out by travel on foot, horseback, or camel, living among present Bedouin to search the hills and valleys for evidence of a past they have long forgotten? Here is the story of what one man found out about this mystery in a search of many years, between 1932 and 1947. Its main conclusions are today still true - an important new chapter in the ancient story of man.</p>

The Other Side of the Jordan

Nelson Glueck

Romans and Saracens: A History of the Arabian Frontier: 6 (AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH)

History

Parker, S. Thomas

Africa

In-depth descriptions of ancient pottery found in Israel. Includes black-and-white photographs of fragments of pottery alongside diagrams that give a more complete picture of what the pottery would have looked like.

Taanach I: Studies in the Iron Age Pottery

Rast, Walter E.

Tell-El Hesi Field Manual: Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell El-Hesi/Volume 1 (Excavation Reports Series No. 3)

Blakely, Jeffry A.

Toombs, Lawrence E.

Reference

Qasr Kharana in the Transjordan

Politics & Social Sciences

Urice, Stephen K.

Archaeology

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