Publications

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    New Studies on Jerusalem

    Author Editor: Prof Avraham Faust, Dr Eyal Baruch Dr Ayelet Levy Reifer

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  • Jerusalem & Eretz -Israel

    Author Editor: prof Joshua Schwartz, Prof. Avraham Faust, Prof. Zoar Amar

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    Tracking the Scarlet Dye of the Holy Land

    Author Prof Zoar Amar

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    The Callenge of Gender

    Author Prof. Margalit Shilo

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    Revolutionaries Despite Themselves

    Author Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman

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    In the British Mandate pre-state Jewish community in Palestine, a unique population sector with a complex ideology developed – the religious-Zionist community. This community, which advocated the preservation of Jewish tradition while embracing new ideas and concepts, was undecided as to what its role in the rebuilding of the Land of Israel should be. It was especially concerned as to how it would preserve the values of the past while at the same time becoming an integral part of the new Jewish society in Eretz Israel. It sought to guarantee the continued existence of Jewish tradition while establishing new gender relations, one of the underpinnings of the new society.

     

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    Merorim- Bitter Herbs

    Author Prof Zoar Amar

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    The Druze in the Middle East

    Author Dr. Nisim Dana

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    Israel’s Ethnogenesis:Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance

    Author Prof. Avraham Faust

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      Series: Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology, edited by Professor Thomas E. Levy, UC San Diego

    Subject: Archaeology

    Readership: upper level undergraduates and postgraduates

    Pub date: April 2007   244 x169 mm, 288pp,  17 black and white line drawings

    ISBN:  HB 978 1 904768 98 2   £75/$115

    Description:

    The emergence of Israel in Canaan is perhaps the most debated topic in biblical/Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and related fields. Accordingly, it has received a great deal of attention in recent years, both in scholarly literature and in popular publications.

    Generally speaking, however, the archaeology of ancient Israel is wedged in a paradoxical situation. Despite the large existing database of archaeological finds (from thousands of excavations conducted over an extremely limited area) scholars in this (sub)discipline  typically do not engage in "theoretical" (anthropological) discussions, thus exposing a large gap between it and other branches of archaeology, in this respect. Numerous ‘archaeologically oriented' studies of Israelite ethnicity are still conducted largely in the spirit of the ‘culture history school', and are absent of thorough reference to the work of more recent critics, which, at best, make a selected appearance in these analyses.

    Israel's Ethnogenesis provides an "anthropologically-oriented" perspective to the discussion of Israel's ethnogenesis. The book traces Israel's emergence in Canaan, and the complex processes of ethnic negotiations and re-negotiations that accompanied it. This monograph incorporates detailed archaeological data and relevant textual sources, within an anthropological framework. Moreover, it contributes to the ‘archaeology of ethnicity', a field which currently attracts significant attention of archaeologists and anthropologists all over the world. Making use of an unparalleled archaeological database from ancient Israel, this volume has much to offer to the ongoing debate over the nature of ethnicity in general, and to the understudied question of how ethnic groups evolve (ethnogenesis), in particular. 

    Table of contents

    Table of contents:
    Part One: Introduction
    1. Introduction
    2. Archaeology and Ethnicity
    3. Israelite Ethnicity: State of Research

    Part Two: An Archaeological Examination of Israelite Ethnicity
    4. Israelite Markers and Behavior
    5. Meat Consumption
    6. Decorated Pottery
    7. Imported Pottery
    8. Pottery Forms and Repertoire
    9. The Four Room House
    10. Circumcision and Ethnicity
    11. Hierarchy and Equality: The Roots of the Israelite Egalitarian Ethos

    Part Three: Israel's Identity and the Philistines
    12. Settlement Patterns in Iron Age I - Iron Age II Transition
    13. Ethnicity and Statehood in Ancient Israel
    14. The Philistines in the Iron Age I
    15. Totemism to Ethnicity: The Philistines and Israel's Self-Identification

    Part Four: Merenptah's Israel: The Beginnings
    16. Merenptah's Israel: Israel in the Late 13th Century BCE
    17. Israel's Emergence: The Beginnings
    18. Origins Reconsidered

    Part Five: Aspects of Distribution
    19. Pots and Peoples Revisited: Israelites, Philistines and Canaanites
    20. Transjordan Revisited
    21. Summary and Conclusions

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    The Four Species Anthology

    Author Prof. Zoar Amar

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    The Necropolis of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period

    Author Prof Amos Kloner and Dr Boaz Zissu

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