Bene Israel: Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant During the Bronze and Iron Ages in Honour of Israel Finkelstein (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East)

331 Pages·2008·6.16 MB·English

by  Alexander Fantalkin

Israel Finkelstein
Bene Israel
Culture and History of the
Ancient Near East
Founding Editor
M. H. E. Weippert
Editors-in-Chief
Thomas Schneider
Editors
Eckart Frahm, W. Randall Garr, B. Halpern,
Theo P. J. van den Hout, Irene J. Winter
VOLUME 31
Bene Israel
Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant
during the Bronze and Iron Ages in Honour of
Israel Finkelstein
edited by
Alexander Fantalkin and Assaf Yasur-Landau
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2008
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bene Israel : studies in the archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze
and Iron ages in honour of Israel Finkelstein / edited by Alexander Fantalkin and
Assaf Yasur-Landau.
p. cm. — (Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 31)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-90-04-15282-3 (alk. paper)
1. Bronze age—Palestine. 2. Iron age—Palestine. 3. Excavations (Archaeology)—
Palestine. 4. Palestine—Antiquities. 5. Bronze age—Middle East. 6. Iron age—Mid-
dle East. 7. Excavations (Archaeology)—Middle East. 8. Middle East—Antiquities.
I. Fantalkin, Alexander. II. Yasur-Landau, Assaf. III. Finkelstein, Israel. IV. Title.
V. Series.
GN778.32.P19B45 2008
933—dc22
2008014960
ISSN 1566-2055
ISBN 978 90 04 15282 3
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ....................................................................... vii
List of Figures ............................................................................. ix
Introduction ................................................................................ xv
Urban Land Use Changes on the Southeastern Slope of
Tel Megiddo during the Middle Bronze Age ............................ 1
Eran Arie
The Appearance of Rock-Cut Bench Tombs in Iron Age
Judah as a Reflection of State Formation .................................. 17
Alexander Fantalkin
Trademarks of the Omride Builders? ........................................ 45
Norma Franklin
Continuity and Change in the Late Bronze to Iron Age
Transition in Israel’s Coastal Plain: A Long Term
Perspective ................................................................................... 55
Yuval Gadot
Permanent and Temporary Settlements in the South of the
Lower Besor Region: Two Case Studies .................................... 75
Dan Gazit
The Socioeconomic Implications of Grain Storage in
Early Iron Age Canaan: The Case of Tel Dan ........................ 87
David Ilan
A Re-analysis of the Archaeological Evidence for the
Beginning of the Iron Age I ...................................................... 105
Yitzhak Meitlis
vi contents
Reassessing the Bronze and Iron Age Economy: Sheep and
Goat Husbandry in the Southern Levant as a Model Case
Study ........................................................................................... 113
Aharon Sasson
Settlement Patterns of Philistine City-States ............................. 135
Alon Shavit
Levantine Standardized Luxury in the Late Bronze Age:
Waste Management at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) .......................... 165
Amir Sumaka(cid:120)i Fink
Desert Outsiders: Extramural Neighborhoods in the Iron Age
Negev .......................................................................................... 197
Yifat Thareani-Sussely
A Message in a Jug: Canaanite, Philistine, and Cypriot
Iconography and the “Orpheus Jug” ......................................... 213
Assaf Yasur-Landau
Index ........................................................................................... 231
Plates ........................................................................................... 247
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
As the editors of present volume, we would like to express our thanks
to a number of colleagues who had contributed significantly to its
accomplishment. Inbal Samet spared no effort, helping immensely in
preparation the manuscript for publication. Alon Shavit and Gocha
R. Tsetskhladze has offered advice and help in a number of crucial
points of the project. Baruch Halpern and Ephraim Lytle have read
the entire manuscript, kindly providing their valuable comments, while
Benjamin Sass, Eric H. Cline and David Ilan have kindly commented
on several papers.
We were privileged to have on our side Michiel Klein Swormink,
Michael J. Mozina, and Jennifer Pavelko from the Brill staff, whose
professional and dedicated work made the usually complicated task of
producing an edited volume considerably simpler. Likewise, we would
like to thank the editorial board of Brill’s Culture and History of the
Ancient Near East series. Finally, but perhaps most importantly, this
project could never has been materialized without the enthusiastic par-
ticipation of our contributors. We have greatly enjoyed working with
such knowledgeable, reliable and responsive colleagues as have come
together for the present volume.
A.F.
A.Y.-L.