Kiriath-jearim

Israel Finkelstein is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the Head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Culture at the University of Haifa. He is Co-director of the Megiddo Expedition. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. He is the Laureate of the Dan David Prize, 2005, and Recipient of the MacAllister Field Archaeology Award of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2017. He has authored and edited 23 books and published some 450 scholarly articles.

Thomas Römer is Professor at the Collège de France and its President since 2019 and is Professor Emeritus of the University of Lausanne. He holds honorary doctorates from Tel Aviv University and the Catholic University of Lyon. His current research covers the formation of the Torah, the so-called Deuteronomistic History and its social and historical setting, as well as the relationship between literary and archaeological approaches to understanding the Hebrew Bible. He is one of the main editors of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. His main publications include: Israels Väter (1990); The So-Called Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, Historical and Literary Introduction (translated into many languages); L’invention de Dieu (translated into many languages) and Genèse 11,26–25,18; L’histoire d’Abraham.

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN, THOMAS RÖMER AND CHRISTOPHE NICOLLE

CHAPTER 2 Kiriath-jearim in the Bible

ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN AND THOMAS RÖMER

CHAPTER 3 Area A

ASSAF KLEIMAN AND YANA KIRILOV

CHAPTER 4 Area B

ZACHARY C. DUNSETH AND NAAMA WALZER

CHAPTER 5 Area C

JULIETTE MAS, EYTHAN LEVY AND ERIN HALL

CHAPTER 6 Evidence for Activity in the Bronze Age and Early Phases

of the Iron Age

JULIETTE MAS AND ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN

CHAPTER 7 Two Ceramic Assemblages from Area A

ASSAF KLEIMAN

CHAPTER 8 The Iron IIC Pottery from Area C

JULIETTE MAS AND LIORA FREUD

CHAPTER 9 The Hellenistic Pottery from Areas A and B

DÉBORA SANDHAUS

CHAPTER 10 The Roman Pottery

YANA KIRILOV

CHAPTER 11 The Small Finds

RELI AVISAR AND YANA KIRILOV

CHAPTER 12 A Conoid Seal from Area A

RELI AVISAR AND ASSAF KLEIMAN

CHAPTER 13 Ceramic Figurines

MARGARET E. COHEN

CHAPTER 14 Stamped and Incised Jar Handles

ODED LIPSCHITS AND IDO KOCH

Contents

CHAPTER 15 Potter’s Marks and Other Incisions and Impressions on Handles

ODED LIPSCHITS AND LIORA FREUD

CHAPTER 16 Coins

YOAV FARHI

CHAPTER 17 Glass Finds

RUTHY LEWIS-BLOOM

CHAPTER 18 Hobnails

YANA KIRILOV

CHAPTER 19 Roof Tiles

YANA KIRILOV

CHAPTER 20 Dating the Main Architectural Features in Areas A and B:

OSL Results and Archaeological Considerations

ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN AND NAOMI PORAT

CHAPTER 21 Seismic and Geodetic Investigation of the Summit

YANIV DARVASI AND AMOTZ AGNON

CHAPTER 22 Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Survey

YANIV DARVASI AND AMOTZ AGNON

CHAPTER 23 Faunal Remains from Area C

LIDAR SAPIR-HEN

CHAPTER 24 Ostraca Search Protocol

EYTHAN LEVY AND SHIRA FAIGENBAUM-GOLOVIN

CHAPTER 25 An Iron II Burial Cave on the Slope of Tel Kiriath-jearim

GIDEON GOLDENBERG

CHAPTER 26 The Iron II Burial Cave: The Pottery

LIORA FREUD

CHAPTER 27 The Iron II Burial Cave: The Human Remains

VERED ESHED

CHAPTER 28 The Iron II Burial Cave: Ancient DNA Sampling and Analysis of

Uniparental Markers

ARIE SHAUS AND DAVID REICH

CHAPTER 29 Conclusions: The Settlement History of Kiriath-jearim

ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN, THOMAS RÖMER AND CHRISTOPHE NICOLLE

Index of Loci

ANDREA GARZA-DÍAZBARRIGA AND MAʿAYAN REUVEN

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