Midian, Moab and Edom

Midian, Moab and Edom
Author: John F. A. Sawyer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1983-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780905774497

Specialists from different fields converge on one relatively circumscribed and, until recently, largely neglected area of biblical archaeology. The eleven papers comprise archaeological reports from Buseira (Biblical Bozrah) and Wadi el Hasa in Moab, technical studies of Midianite and Edomite pottery, Iron Age burial practices and copper smelting in the Arabah, a semantic study of barzel ('iron') in Biblical Hebrew, and three essays of more general interest, on the history of the Ishmaelites and the Midianites.

Early Edom and Moab

Early Edom and Moab
Author: Piotr Bienkowski
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1992-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780906090459

New evidence and research has challenged old assumptions for the early Iron Age kingdoms of Edom and Moab in southern Jordan; the sixteen essays in this volume focus on the archaeological, textual and literary sources for this region between the thirteenth and seventh centuries BC, and constitute an up-to-date summary of present knowledge. Contributors include: J R Bartlett (Biblical sources for the early Iron Age in Edom); K A Kitchen (Egyptian evidence on early Jordan); A Millard (Assyrian involvement in Edom); P J Parr (Edom and the Hejaz); G L Mattingly (Moabite origins); J A Dearman (settlement patterns in Iron Age Moab); J M Miller (early monarchy in Moab); S Hart (Iron Age settlement in Edom); J P Zeitler (`Edomite' pottery from the Petra region).

Studies in Isaiah

Studies in Isaiah
Author: F.C. Jennings
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 785
Release: 2001-09-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1579107427

The Archaeology of Ancient Israel

The Archaeology of Ancient Israel
Author: Amnon Ben-Tor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300059199

In this illustrated book, some of Israel's foremost archaeologists present a survey of early life in the land of the Bible, from the Neolithic era (eighth millenium BC) to the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BC. Each chapter covers a particular era and includes a bibliography.

Complexity and Diversity in the Late Iron Age Southern Levant

Complexity and Diversity in the Late Iron Age Southern Levant
Author: Charlotte M. Whiting
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

This study aims to highlight many of the present methodological problems of Iron Age archaeology in the Southern Levant. It starts with a historiography of Iron Age archaeology, showing how socio-political contexts have driven research, and how the Bible has influenced directions of study. Charlotte Whiting then takes the scholarly literature on the Edomites as a case study showing how assumptions based on Biblical scholarship have distorted interpretations of the archaeology, particularly with regards to conceptions of ethnicity and nationhood. She suggests new approaches going back to the archaeological record and includes new analysis of Edomite pottery.