Levant
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Sennacherib's Campaign Against Judah and Jerusalem in 701 B.C: A Historical Reconstruction [Hardback]
Nazek Khalid Matty (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9783110447880
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
This study offers a reconstruction of Sennacherib’s campaign against Judah and Jerusalem in 701 BC. It contrasts and compares various, partly contradictious readings of this event and challenges established narratives. By giving equal weight ... .... Learn More
Sepphoris II: The Clay Oil Lamps of Sepphoris in Galilee [Hardback]
Eric C. Lapp (Author)
£59.99ISBN: 9781575064048
Published by : Eisenbrauns
Sepphoris was an important Galilean site from Hellenistic to early Islamic times. This multicultural city is described by Flavius Josephus as the “ornament of all Galilee,” and Rabbi Judah the Prince (ha-Nasi) codified the Mishnah there aroun... .... Learn More
Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain [Paperback]
David Gange (Editor); Michael Ledger-Lomas (Editor)
£21.99ISBN: 9781316625651
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The history of archaeology is generally told as the making of a secular discipline. In nineteenth-century Britain, however, archaeology was enmeshed with questions of biblical authority and so with religious as well as narrowly scholarly concerns.... .... Learn More
Quaternary of the Levant:: Environments, Climate Change and Humans [Hardback]
Yehouda Enzel (Editor); Ofer Bar-Yosef (Editor)
£110.00ISBN: 9781107090460
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Quaternary of the Levant presents up-to-date research achievements from a region that displays unique interactions between climate, the environment and human evolution. Focusing on southeast Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel, it brings tog... .... Learn More
The King and the Land: A Geography of Royal Power in the Biblical World [Hardback]
Stephen C. Russell (Author)
£64.00ISBN: 9780199361885
Published by : Oxford University Press
In The King and the Land, Stephen C. Russell offers a history of space and power in the biblical world by demonstrating how the monarchies in ancient Israel and Judah asserted their power over strategically important spaces such as privately-... .... Learn More
Babatha's Orchard: The Yadin Papyri and an Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold [Hardback]
Philip F. Esler (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780198767169
Published by : Oxford University Press
In 1961 archaeologists discovered a family archive of legal papyri in a cave near the Dead Sea where their owner, the Jewish woman Babatha, had hidden them in 135 CE at the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt. Babatha's Orchard analyzes the oldest four o... .... Learn More
Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 5: Survey, Zooarchaeology and Ethnoarchaeology [Hardback]
P. M. Michele Daviau (Editor)
£181.00ISBN: 9789004316195
Published by : Brill
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 5, the authors present their research in the areas of regional survey, salvage excavation, zooarchaeology, ceramic typology, experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology. This work illustrates areas thr... .... Learn More
Syria's Monuments: Their Survival and Destruction [Hardback]
Michael Greenhalgh (Author)
£163.00ISBN: 9789004329577
Published by : Brill
Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. It ... .... Learn More
The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy [Paperback]
C. L. Crouch (Author)
£37.00ISBN: 9789004335974
Published by : Brill
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exil... .... Learn More
A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites [Paperback]
Youssef Kanjou (Editor); Akira Tsuneki (Editor)
Regular Price: £80.00
Special Price: £64.00
ISBN: 9781784913816
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
This volume presents the long history of Syria through a jouney of the most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 e... .... Learn More
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