The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in Honor of William G Dever (Annual of ASOR) [Hardcover]

Beth Alpert Nakhai (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0897570650 | ISBN-13: 978-0897570657 | Publication Date: May 2004

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).

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About the Author

Beth Alpert Nakhai is Assistant Director of the Committee on Judaic Studies and Assistant Professor at The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research (May 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897570650
• ISBN-13: 978-0897570657
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.8 inches
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