"I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times": Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday

940 Pages·2006·135.06 MB·English

by  Aren M. Maeir

“I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times”
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Amihai Mazar
“I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times”
Archaeological and Historical Studies
in Honor of
Amihai Mazar
on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday
Volume 1
Edited by
Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji
Winona Lake, Indiana
Eisenbrauns
2006
ç Copyright 2006 by Eisenbrauns.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
“I will speak the riddles of ancient times” : archaeological and historical
studies in honor of Amihai Mazar on the occasion of his sixtieth
birthday / edited by Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57506-103-0 (hardback; set : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-57506-103-1 (hardback; set : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-1-57506-125-2 (hardback; vol. 1 : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-1-57506-126-9 (hardback; vol. 2 : alk. paper)
1. Middle East—Antiquities. 2. Excavations (Archaeology)—
Middle East. I. Maeir, Aren M. II. Miroschedji, Pierre de.
III. Mazar, Amihay, 1942–
DS56.I16 2006
933—dc22
2006018766
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the
American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper
for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. †‘
Contents
Volume 1
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji
Introduction: Amihai Mazar, an Appreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Bibliography of Amihai Mazar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Compiled by Nava Panitz-Cohen
Part 1
Early Bronze Age Studies
Parochialism in Early Bronze Age I Ceramic Traditions:
The Case of a “Safi Cup” from the EB I Site at
Palmahim Quarry, Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Eliot Braun
Two Notes on Early Bronze Age Megiddo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Israel Finkelstein and David Ussishkin
Copper and Bronze Objects from Tell Abu al-Kharaz and
Sahem, Jordan: Some Reflections on the Results of
Atomic-Absorption Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Peter M. Fischer
The Southern Frontier of Canaan during the Early Bronze Age III:
Some Neglected Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Ram Gophna and Dan Gazit
What’s Cooking in Early Bronze Age II? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Raphael Greenberg
A Failed Innovation: Early Bronze Age Trapezoid Mud Bricks at Lod . . . . . . 49
Egon H. E. Lass
At the Dawn of History: Sociopolitical Developments in
Southwestern Canaan in Early Bronze Age III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Pierre de Miroschedji
The Fourth-Millennium bce Origin of the Three-Tanged “Epsilon” Axe . . . 79
Benjamin Sass and Michael Sebbane
The Origin and Distribution of the Collared-Rim Pithos and Krater:
A Case of Conservative Pottery Production in the Ancient Near East
from the Fourth to the First Millennium bce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Eli Yannai
v
vi Contents
Part 2
Middle and Late Bronze Age Studies
“Filling in” the Void: Observations on the Habitation Pattern
at Tel Akko at the End of the Late Bronze Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Michal Artzy
Nomads or mnmn.t-Shepherds in the Eastern Nile Delta
in the New Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Manfred Bietak
Quelques perles de cornaline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Annie Caubet et Marguerite Yon
Female Figurines from the Deir el-Balah Settlement and Cemetery . . . . . . . 149
Trude Dothan
The Political Organization of the City-States in Southwestern Palestine
in the Late Bronze Age IIB (13th Century bc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Michaël Jasmin
Architecture et modélisme au Proche-Orient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Jean-Claude Margueron
Middle Bronze Age II Minor Cult Places at Ebla? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Paolo Matthiae
A Seal-Cutter’s Workshop at Enkomi and Its Implications for
the Nationality of Late Cypriot Bronze Age Glyptics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Robert S. Merrillees
A Corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian-Style Pottery
from Tel Beth-Shean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Robert A. Mullins
An Egyptian Marsh Scene on Pottery from Tel Seraº:
A Case of Egyptianization in Late Bronze Age III Canaan . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Eliezer D. Oren
Sinuhe’s World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Anson F. Rainey
Part 3
Philistine/Sea Peoples Studies
Philistine Bichrome Pottery:
The View from the Northern Canaanite Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Ayelet Gilboa, Anat Cohen-Weinberger, Yuval Goren
A Philistine “Head Cup” (Rhyton) from Tell es-Sâfi/Gath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Aren M. Maeir
The Political Organization of the Philistines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Itzhaq Shai
The Chronology of the Philistine Monochrome Pottery:
An Outsider’s View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Susan Sherratt
Contents vii
Biblical Philistines: A Hellenistic Literary Creation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Lawrence E. Stager
The Sea Peoples Cult in Philistia and Northern Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Ephraim Stern
Volume 2
Part 4
Iron Age Studies
Ecological Principles in the Bible: Surviving in the Hill Country . . . . . . . . . 401
Oded Borowski
The Early Israelite Monarchy in the Sorek Valley: Tel Beth-Shemesh
and Tel Batash (Timnah) in the 10th and 9th Centuries bce . . . . . . . . 407
Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman
The Excavations at Tell el-Hammah: A Prelude to Amihai Mazar’s
Beth-Shean Valley Regional Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Jane M. Cahill
Archaeology and Ancient Israelite Iconography:
Did Yahweh Have a Face? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
William G. Dever
Farmsteads in the Foothills of Western Samaria: A Reexamination . . . . . . . 477
Avraham Faust
The lmlk Jar-Form Redefined: A New Class of Iron Age II
Oval-Shaped Storage Jar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Seymour Gitin
Black-Burnished Ammonite Bowls from Tall al-ºUmayri and
Tall Hisban in Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Larry G. Herr
Notes on Religious Symbolism in
Cypriot Vase-Painting, ca. 1050–600 bc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Vassos Karageorghis
The Emergence of Ancient Israel: The Social Boundaries of a
“Mixed Multitude” in Canaan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Ann E. Killebrew
Can a Proto-Israelite Please Stand Up?
Notes on the Ethnicity of Iron Age Israel and Judah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
Raz Kletter
Does the “Low Chronology” Work? A Case Study of Tell Qasile X,
Tel Gezer X, and Lachish V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Steven M. Ortiz
“Off the Wall”: Wall Brackets and Cypriots in Iron Age I Israel . . . . . . . . . . 613
Nava Panitz-Cohen
The Provenance of the Unpublished Ivories from Samaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
Ron E. Tappy
viii Contents
Part 5
Historical, Biblical,
and Epigraphic Studies
The Function of the m(w)ßh-Stamped Jars Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
Diana Edelman
The Historical Prologue in a Letter from Suppiluliuma II to ºAmmurapiª,
King of Ugarit (RS 18.038) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Amir Sumakaªi Fink
The Complex of Traditions in Judges 4 and 5
and the Religion of Pre-state Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
Volkmar Fritz
Salomon et la fille de Pharaon: Un problème d’interprétation historique . . 699
André Lemaire
The Search for Gibeah: Notes on the Historical Geography of
Central Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711
William M. Schniedewind
The Hittites and the Bible Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723
Itamar Singer
A Provenance Study of Hebrew Seals and Seal Impressions:
A Statistical Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
Andrew G. Vaughn and Carolyn Pillers Dobler
Part 6
Jerusalem Studies
The Solomonic Wall in Jerusalem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775
Eilat Mazar
Jerusalem of Gold—Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787
Shalom M. Paul
On the Original Length of Hezekiah’s Tunnel:
Some Critical Notes on David Ussishkin’s Suggestions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795
Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron
The Burials of the Judean Kings:
Sociohistorical Considerations and Suggestions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801
Jeffrey R. Zorn
Part 7
Post–Iron Age Studies
Two Notes on the History and Archaeology
of Judea in the Persian Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823
Hanan Eshel and Boaz Zissu
The Application of Ethnographic Analogy to the Examination of
Roman/Byzantine Pastoral Practices in the Mount Carmel Region . . . 833
Liora Kolska Horwitz
The Structure and Installations at Hulda and
Their Function as a Jewish Winepress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853
Amos Kloner
Contents ix
The Ceramic Incense Shovels from Sepphoris: Another View . . . . . . . . . . . . 865
Eric M. Meyers
The Tyranny of Texts: A Rebellion against the Primacy of
Written Documents in Defining Archaeological Agendas . . . . . . . . . . . 879
Steven A. Rosen