Near Eastern archaeology in the twentieth century

essays in honor of Nelson Glueck.

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406

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Garden City, N.Y

Table of Contents

Foreword; "This is for a celebration ..." by J. A. Sanders.
Preface; The mind of Nelson Glueck, by F. Bamberger.
Introduction: The phenomenon of American archaeology in the Near East, by G. E. Wright. James Henry Breasted; the idea of an oriental institute, by J. A. Wilson. The phenomenon of Israeli archaeology, by W. F. Albright. On right and wrong uses of archaeology, by R. de Vaux.
The Bronze Age: The beginnings of urbanization in Canaan, by R. Amiran. Palestine in the early Bronze Age, by P. W. Lapp. The "Middle Bronze I" period in Syria and Palestine, by W. G. Dever. Northern Canaan and the Mari texts, by A. Malamat. The saltier of Atargatis reconsidered, by M. H. Pope.
The Iron Age: Symbols of deities at Zinjirli, Carthage and Hazor, by Y. Yadin. Israelite Jerusalem, by K. M. Kenyon. New aspects of the Israelite occupation in the north, by Y. Aharoni. The Megiddo stables, a reassessment, by J. B. Pritchard. The scripts in Palestine and Transjordan in the Iron Age, by J. Naveh. Ammonite and Moabite seals, by N. Avigad.
The Persian period and beyond: The cave inscriptions from Khirbet Beit Lei, by F. M. Cross, Jr. New excavations at Sardis and some problems of western Anatolian archaeology, by G. M. A. Hanfmann and J. C. Waldbaum. Another deity with Dolphins? By R. D. Barnett. Archaeology and Babylonian Jewry, by J. Neusner and J. Z. Smith. A sequence of pottery from Petra, by P. J. Parr. Bibliography of Nelson Glueck, by E. K. Vogel (p. [382]-394)

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Library of Congress
DS56 .N4, DS56 .N43x 1970

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Pagination
xxiv, 406 p.
Number of pages
406

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OL5217886M
Internet Archive
neareasternarcha00glue
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75103773
OCLC/WorldCat
90693
Library Thing
3929148

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