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JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SUPPLEMENT SERIES 237 Editors David J.A. Clines Philip R. Davies Executive Editor John Jarick Editorial Board Robert P. Carroll, Richard J. Coggins, Alan Cooper, J. Cheryl Exum, John Goldingay, Robert P. Gordon, Norman K. Gottwald, Andrew D.H. Mayes, Carol Meyers, Patrick D. Miller Sheffield Academic Press This page intentionally left blank The Archaeology of Israel Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present edited by Neil Asher Silberman & David Small Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 237 Copyright © 1997 Sheffield Academic Press Published by Sheffield Academic Press Ltd Mansion House 19 Kingfield Road Sheffield SI 19AS England Printed on acid-free paper in Great Britain by Bookcraft Ltd Midsomer Norton, Bath British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1-85075-650-3 CONTENTS Foreword 9 Abbreviations 11 List of Figures 13 List of Contributors 15 NEIL ASHER SILBERMAN AND DAVID B. SMALL Introduction 17 ARCHAEOLOGY, CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, AND IDEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE AMOS ELON Politics and Archaeology 34 YAACOV SHAVTT Archaeology, Political Culture, and Culture in Israel 48 NEIL ASHER SILBERMAN Structuring the Past: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Symbolic Authority of Archaeological Monuments 62 BURKE O. LONG Historical Imaginings, Ideological Gestures: W.F. Albright and the 'Reasoning Faculties of Man' 82 PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL: RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES TRUDE DOTHAN Tel Miqne-Ekron: An Iron Age I Philistine Settlement in Canaan 96 AMNON BEN-TOR The Yigael Yadin Memorial Excavations at Hazor, 1990-93: Aims and Preliminary Results 107 6 The Archaeology of Israel EPHRAIM STERN Discoveries at Tel Dor 128 AMfflAlMAZAR The Excavations at Tel Beth Shean during the Years 1989-94 144 ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE SECOND TEMPLE AND RABBINIC PERIODS LEE I. LEVINE The Revolutionary Effects of Archaeology on the Study of Jewish History: The Case of the Ancient Synagogue 166 BENJAMIN G. WRIGHT m Jewish Ritual Baths—Interpreting the Digs and the Texts: Some Issues in the Social History of Second Temple Judaism 190 ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNICITY: PEOPLES OF ANCIENT CANAAN/ISRAEL ISRAEL RNKELSTEIN Pots and People Revisited: Ethnic Boundaries in the Iron Age I 216 BRIAN HESSE AND PAULA WAPNISH Can Pig Remains Be Used for Ethnic Diagnosis in the Ancient Near East? 238 DAVID B. SMALL Group Identification and Ethnicity in the Construction of the Early State of Israel: From the Outside Looking in 271 IMAGINING THE PAST: THE BIBLE, ISRAELITE HISTORY, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH WILLIAM G. DEVER Philology, Theology, and Archaeology: What Kind of History Do We Want, and What Is Possible? 290 Contents 1 BARUCH HALPERN Text and Artifact: Two Monologues? 311 Index of References 342 Index of Authors 345 This page intentionally left blank FOREWORD This volume, The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Inter- preting the Present, is the fifth based on conferences at the Philip and Muriel Herman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University and is aimed at stimulating new thinking in the field of Jewish Studies broadly conceived. In gathering together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, the Center sought to foster dialogue and debate among people approach- ing the field of the archaeology of the land of Israel from diverse per- spectives and disciplinary orientations. By incorporating discussion of the cultural, social, and political conditions and effects, we endeavored to broaden the framework within which the archaeology of Israel is con- ventionally discussed. I would like to thank Richard and Susan Master for their generous contribution which helped to make the conference and the volume possible. I am likewise grateful to Philip and Muriel Berman, who con- tributed generously to the funding of the conference, and whose gen- erosity and imagination made possible the establishment and continued operation of the Center. I thank Neil Silberman and David Small for agreeing to edit the volume and for contributing an illuminating intro- duction that locates the various issues addressed by the contributors within the context of the scholarly discussions in the field. They, together with Trude Dothan and Ephraim Stern of the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, played a major role in conceptualizing and organizing the conference. Without their wise counsel, the conference could not have been held. Shirley Ratushny, assistant to the director of the Berman Center, was responsible for preparing the volume for publication and for supervising the administrative and logistical organization of the con- ference. Carol Sabo, administrative coordinator of the Berman Center, was responsible for coordinating transportation and housing for the
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