Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class And the Other in Antiquity; Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers (ASOR Annual)

434 Pages·2007·17.22 MB·English

by  Douglas R. Edwards

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF DIFFERENCE
CLASS AND
GENDER, ETHNICITY,
THE "OTHER" IN ANTIQUITY
STUDIES IN HONOR OF ERIC M. MEYERS
EDITED BY DOUGLAS R. EDWARDS
AND C. THOMAS MCCOLLOUGH
Volume 60161
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF DIFFERENCE
THE ANNUAL OF
THE AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
Volume 60/61
Series Editor
Serwint
Nancy
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF DIFFERENCE
GENDER, ETHNICITY, CLASS
AND THE OTHER" IN
ANTIQUITY
STUDIES IN HONOR OF
ERIC M. MEYERS
edited R. Edwards and C. Thomas
byD ouglas McCollough
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AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH BOSTON, MA
ANNUAL OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH
VOLUME 60/61
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American Schools ofO riental Research
ISBN-10: 0-89757-070-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-89757-070-1
The archaeology of difference :g ender, ethnicity, class and the "other" in antiquity :
studies in honor of Eric M. Meyers / edited by Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas
McCollough.
p. cm. -- (The annual of the American schools of oriental research ;v . 60/61)
Includes references and index.
bibliographical
ISBN 978-0-89757-070-1 (alk. paper)
I. Social archaeology?Middle East. 2. Ethnoarchaeology?Middle East. 3. Ethnic
ity?Middle East?History. 4. Sex role?Middle East?History. 5. Social classes?Mid
dle East?History. 6. Middle East--Antiquities. 7. Meyers, Eric M. I.M eyers, Eric M.
II. Edwards, Douglas R. III. McCollough, C. Thomas.
CC72.4.A7347 2007
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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
CONTENTS
List
ofF iguresi x
List ofT ables xiii
SETTING THE STAGE
Chapter The Archaeology ofD ifference:S ettingt heS tage
C. Thomas McCollough and Douglas R. Edwards
Chapter 2 Jewish and Muslim Heritage in Europe:
The Role ofA rchaeology inD efendingC ulturalD iversity 13
Neil Silberman
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SECTION I NEOLITHIC THROUGH PERSIAN PERIODS
Chapter 3 The Emergenceo f Social Complexity in theN eolithic of theN ear East 19
er
Of Bar-Yosef
Chapter 4 Gender and SocialH ierarchy in theC halcolithic Period
in theL ighto f theP eqfin Cave, Israel 41
Zvi Gal Howard Smithlinea ndD ina Shalem
Chapter 5 Ethnicitya nd theA rchaeologicalR ecord: The Case ofE arly Israel 49
William G. Dever
Chapter 6 From Field Crops to Food:
Attributing Gender and Meaning to Bread Production in Iron Age Israel 67
Carol
Meyers
Chapter 7 Queen or Crone? GenderedA rchaeology in an LB Tomb atG ezer 85
JoeD . Seger
Chapter 8 No Stelae, No Queens: Two Issues Concerning the Kings of Israel and Judah 95
A.
Gary Rendsburg
Chapter 9 The Problem of theO ther(ed)W oman inN ahum 109
JuliaM . O'Brien
Chapter 10 Linguistic Variation Emphasized, Linguistic Variation Denied 119
Raymond E Person, Jr.
Chapter 11 Representing the Cushite Other:
The Use of Cushite Ph?notypes inN umbers 12 and Jeremiah 13:23 127
Rodney S. Sadler, Jr.
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SECTION II ?HELLENISTIC THROUGH BYZANTINE PERIODS
Chapter 12 What Sort of JewsW ere the Tobiads? 141
Adam Porter
Chapter 13 The Relationship Between Galilean Archaeology and
Historical Jesus Research 151
JohnD ominic Crossan
Chapter 14 Zum Standort des Tempels 163
Volkmar Fritz
Chapter 15 "When Went to Rome.. .There I Saw theM enorah..
The Jerusalem Temple Implements Duriug the Second Century c.e. 169
Steven Fine
Chapter 16 Miqwa?t and Second Temple Sectarianism 181
Carol SelkinW ise
Chapter 17 The Stepped Water Installations of the Sepphoris Acropolis 201
Katharina Galor
Chapter 18 Stepped Pools and the Non-Existent Monolithic "Miqveh" 215
Stuart S.M iller
Chapter 19 Jewish Ossuaries of the Early Roman Period:
Continuity and Change inD eath Ritual 235
R. McCane
Byron
Chapter 20 Attitudes Toward the Dead: Protective Measures Employed
Against the Desecration of Tombs, Coffins, and Ossuaries 243
RachelH achlili
Chapter 21 Khirbet Qanas Necropolis and Ethnic Questions 257
Peter Richardson
Chapter 22 Monumental Architecture and Culture
Changes:
in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Sepphoris 267
C. Thomas
McCollough
Chapter 23 The Butchers of Sepphoris: Archaeological Evidence of Ethnic Variability 279
Bill Grantham
Chapter 24 Sepphoris and theE arliestC hristianC ongregations 291
James F Strange
Chapter 25 The Lives of Glass-Workers at Sepphoris 301
Fischer
Alysia
Chapter 26 Two Terracotta Figurine Fragments from the Sepphoris Acropolis 311
Melissa Aubin
Chapter 27 The Archaeology of Bethsaida and the Historical Jesus Quest
Rami Arav
Chapter 28 Caesarea Philippi (Paneas) in the Roman and Byzantine Periods
Vassilios
Tzaferis
Chapter 29 Rabbis, Romans, and Rabies: Religion, Disease, and the "Other"
A Case
Study
Barbara Geller
Chapter 30 Celsus of Pergamum: Locating a Critic of Early Christianity
Goranson
Stephen
Chapter 31 Marketing Religious Difference in Late Antique Syria-Palestine:
Clay Oil Lamps as Clientele Indicators
Eric G
Lapp
Chapter 32 "Set the Showbread on the Table Before Me Always" (Exodus 25:30)
Artistic Representations of the Showbread Table in Early Jewish
and Christian Art
Zeev Weiss
Chapter 33 Christians Among Jews in En-Gedi
Anna de Vincenz
Chapter 34 Nomad Settlement in Palestine During the Late Byzantine
Moslem Period
Early
Zeev and er Sion
Safrai Of
Index
vii