TY - BOOK AU - Ackerman,Susan AU - Bietak,Manfred AU - Bunimovitz,Shlomo AU - Caubet,Annie AU - Collins,John J. AU - Dever,William G. AU - Dothan,Trude AU - Faust,Avraham AU - Finkelstein,Israel AU - Gitin,Seymour AU - Gitin,Seymour (Sy) AU - Halpern,Baruch AU - Karageorghis,Vassos AU - Kitchen,Kenneth A. AU - Levine,Amy-Jill AU - Levine,Baruch A. AU - Lipinski,Edouard AU - Machinist,Peter AU - Magness,Jodi AU - Mazar,Amihai AU - Mendels,Doron AU - Meyers,Carol AU - Meyers,Eric M. AU - Morris,Sarah P. AU - Muhly,James D. AU - Parpola,Simo AU - Rainey,Anson F. AU - Sherratt,Susan AU - Smith,Mark S. AU - Stager,Lawrence E. AU - Stern,Ephraim AU - Stronach,David AU - Toorn,Karel van der AU - Ussishkin,David AU - Williamson,H.G.M. AU - Zevit,Ziony TI - Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors, from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina SN - 9781575065458 AV - DE59 ǂb C46 2000eb U1 - 930.1 PY - 2021///] CY - University Park, PA : PB - Penn State University Press, KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Opening Remarks: Greetings --; Part I Historical and Political Landscape: The Levant and Beyond --; Palace Economies in the Late Bronze Age and The Dark Age That Never Was (Iron Age I) --; Islands in the Sea: Aegean Polities as Levantine Neighbors --; The Case of Ugarit and Carchemish: A Contrast --; Greece and Anatolia in the Early Iron Age: --; The Mediterranean Economy: --; The Dynamics of Statehood (Iron Age II) --; The Patrimonial Kingdom of Solomon --; City-States to States: Polity Dynamics in the 10th-9th Centuries B.C.E. --; Remarks on Biblical Traditions and Archaeological Evidence concerning Early Israel --; Assyria's Expansion in the 8th and 7th Centuries and Its Long-Term Repercussions in the West --; Egyptian Interventions in the Levant in Iron Age II --; Imperial Interventions (The Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods) --; Early Achaemenid Iran: New Considerations --; Palestine among the Empires from the 4th to the 1st Century B.C.E.: Impact and Reaction --; Part II Religion and Distinction --; Shadow-Boxing the Canaanites (The Late Bronze Age) --; Temple or "Bêt Marzea" --; Amarna and Later: Aspects of Social History --; Emerging Forms and Practices (Iron Age I) --; The Aegean and the Orient: Cultic Interactions --; The Cult of Astarte in Cyprus --; False Dichotomies in Descriptions of Israelite Religion: --; The Formative Period of State Religion (Iron Age II) --; Mesopotamian Imperialism and Israelite Religion: --; When the Heavens Darkened: Yahweh, El, and the Divine Astral Family in Iron Age II Judah --; Israelite and Philistine Cult and the Archaeological Record in Iron Age II: The "Smoking Gun" Phenomenon --; Cult-Coast and Interior (The Persian Period) --; Phoenician Cult Expressions in the Persian Period --; The Phoenician Source of Palestinian Cults at the End of the Iron Age --; Late Israelite Astronomies and the Early Greeks --; Romans, Jews, and Christians --; The Jewish World and the Coming of Rome --; Helios and the Zodiac Cycle in Ancient Palestinian Synagogues --; Part III The History of the Family: Continuity and Change --; Units and Cultural Unities (Iron Age I) --; Nine Months among the Peasants in the Palestinian Highlands: An Anthropological Perspective on Local Religion in the Early Iron Age --; Building Identity: --; Household Economy (Iron Age II) --; Material Remains and Social Relations: --; The Clan-Based Economy of Biblical Israel --; At Home with the Goddess --; Families, Houses, and Homes (The Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods) --; The Family in Persian Period Judah: Some Textual Reflections --; Roman-Period Houses from the Galilee: --; Apocryphal Women: From Fiction to (Arti)fact --; Part IV Closing Remarks --; Syro-Palestinian and Biblical Archaeology: Into the Next Millennium --; Special Public Lecture --; Jerusalem as a Royal and Cultic Center in the 10th-8th Centuries B.C.E. --; Discussions --; Part I. Historical and Political Landscape: The Levant and Beyond --; Part II. Religion and Distinction --; Part III. The History of the Family: Continuity and Change --; Special Public Lectures --; Appendix I --; Opening of the Israel Museum Exhibit Thundering on High: --; Appendix II --; Greetings Presented at the Israel Exploration Society Reception on Behalf of the Archaeological Institutions in Israel Held at the Israel Museum --; Indexes --; Index of Authors --; Index of Scripture --; Index of Ancient Texts; restricted access N2 - Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, this collection of erudite essays concentrates on the archaeology of ancient Israel, Canaan, and neighboring nations UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065458?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781575065458 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781575065458/original ER -