Gershon Galil, Ayelet Gilboa, Aren M. Maeir, and Dan´el Kahn (eds.)

AOAT 392

 

 

    The Ancient Near East in the 12th–10th Centuries BCE:

    Culture and History.

ISBN 978-3-86835-066-1

   

xviii + 647 pp.

    Proceedings of the International Conference

    held at the University of Haifa, 2–5 May, 2010

2012

   

€ 116,–

 

“The history of the ancient Near East in the 12th–10th centuries BCE is still an unsolved riddle. At times the veil is lifted and tiny components of this elaborate puzzle glow in a new light. But many questions are as yet unanswered, and most details are

still vague. Nevertheless, the broad outlines of this age are fairly well agreed by most scholars: the three superpowers Egypt, Hatti and Assyria gradually lost their hold and their influence in the area: first the Hittites, just after 1200 BCE, and a few dozens of years later, Egypt and Assyria. Historians generally concur that after the reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I (1243–1208 BCE), Assyria plunged into a prolonged decline, gradually losing its western territories to the Aramaean invaders. (...) The studies presented in this book touch on diverse aspects of human activities (political, social, economic, and cultural), and refer to different parts of the ancient Near East: from Melid and Hanigalbat in the north to Egypt and Kush in the south and from Assyria and Babylonia in the East to the Kingdom of Taita and (southern) Philistia in the west. They do though center mainly on the Bible and the history of ancient Israel and its western and eastern neighbors, as compared with other ancient Near Eastern cultures. The papers present an extensive vista of views—from biblical and archaeological perspectives and indeed most of them were written from an inter disciplinary standpoint.”

 

Errata note for download: AOAT-392-Errata.pdf

 

 

      Reinhard Achenbach

      Divine Warfare and Yhwh’s Wars: Religious Ideologies of War in the Ancient Near East and in the Old Testament

      

       Michal Artzy

      Continuation and Change in the 13th–10th Centuries BCE:  Bronze-Working Koine?

 

      Michael Avioz

      The Davidic Covenant in 2 Samuel 7: Conditional or Unconditional?            

 

     Yigal Bloch

      Assyro-Babylonian Conflicts in the Reign of Aššsur-rēša-iši I: The Contribution of Administrative Documents to History-Writing

 

      Walter Dietrich

      David and the Philistines: Literature and History

 

      Frederick Mario Fales

      Ḫanigalbat in the Early Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: A Retrospective View      

 

      Avraham Faust

      Between Israel and Philistia: Ethnic Negotiations in the South during the Iron Age I         

 

      Gershon Galil

      Solomon’s Temple: Fiction or Reality?

 

      Yosef Garfinkel, Saar Ganor and Michael G. Hasel

      The Iron Age City of Khirbet Qeiyafa after four Seasons of Excavations

 

      Moshe Garsiel

      Ideological Discordance between the prophets Nathan and Samuel as reflecting the Divergence between the Book of Samuel’s authors

 

      Moti Haiman

      Geopolitical Aspects of the Southern Levant Desert in the 11th–10th Centuries BCE

 

      Larry G. Herr

      Jordan in the Iron I and IIB Periods

 

      Richard S. Hess

      The Distinctive Value of Human Life in Israel’s Earliest Legal Traditions

 

      Victor Avigdor Hurowitz

      Yhwh’s Exalted House Revisited: New Comparative Light on the Biblical Image of Solomon’s Temple

 

      Sandra Jacobs

      נפש תחת נפש “A Life for A Life” and napšāte umalla

 

      Dan´el Kahn

      A Geo-Political and Historical Perspective of Merneptah’s Policy in Canaan

 

      Aaron Koller

      The Kos in the Levant: Thoughts on its Distribution, Function, and Spread from the Late Bronze to the Iron Age II

 

      André Lemaire

      West Semitic Epigraphy and the History of the Levant during the 12th–10th Centuries BCE

 

     Yigal Levin

      Ideology and Reality in the Book of Judges

 

      Mario Liverani

      Melid in the Early and Middle Iron Age: Archaeology and History

 

      Aren M. Maeir

      Insights on the Philistine Culture and Related Issues: An Overview of 15 Years of Work at Tell eṣ-Ṣafi/Gath

 

      Alan Millard

      Scripts and their uses in the 12th–10th Centuries BCE

 

      John P. Nielsen

      Nebuchadnezzar I’s Eastern Front

 

      Troy Leiland Sagrillo

      Šîšaq’s Army: 2 Chronicles 12:2–3 from an Egyptological Perspective

 

      Itamar Singer

      The Philistines in the North and the Kingdom of Taita

 

      Ephraim Stern

      Archaeological Remains of the Northern Sea People along the Sharon and Carmel Coasts and the Acco and Jezrael Valleys

 

      Christoffer Theis and Peter van der Veen

      Some “Provenanced” Egyptian Inscriptions from Jerusalem: A Preliminary Study of Old and New Evidence

      Koert van Bekkum

      Coexistence as Guilt: Iron I Memories in Judges 1

 

      Assaf Yasur-Landau

      Chariots, Spears and Wagons: Anatolian and Aegean Elements in the Medinet Habu Land Battle Relief

 

      Ran Zadok

      The Aramean Infiltration and Diffusion in the Upper Jazira, 1150–930 BCE

 

      Wolfgang Zwickel

      Cult in the Iron Age I–IIA in the Land of Israel

 

      Wolfgang Zwickel

      The Change from Egyptian to Philistine Hegemony in South-Western Palestine during the Time of Ramesses III or IV

 

      Index of Authors

      Index of Sources

      Index of Subjects