"I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times": Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday

Volume 1

Preface - Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji
Introduction: Amihai Mazar, an Appreciation - Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji
Abbreviations  
Bibliography of Amihai Mazar, Compiled by Nava Panitz-Cohen

Part 1 Early Bronze Age
Studies Parochialism in Early Bronze Age I Ceramic Traditions: The Case of a “Safi Cup” from the EB I Site at Palmahim Quarry, Israel - Eliot Braun 
Two Notes on Early Bronze Age Megiddo - Israel Finkelstein and David Ussishkin 
Copper and Bronze Objects from Tell Abu al-Kharaz and Sahem, Jordan: Some Reflections on the Results of Atomic-Absorption Spectroscopy - Peter M. Fischer 
The Southern Frontier of Canaan during the Early Bronze Age III: Some Neglected Evidence - Ram Gophna and Dan Gazit
What’s Cooking in Early Bronze Age II? - Raphael Greenberg 
A Failed Innovation: Early Bronze Age Trapezoid Mud Bricks at Lod - Egon H. E. Lass 
At the Dawn of History: Sociopolitical Developments in Southwestern Canaan in Early Bronze Age III - Pierre de Miroschedji 
The Fourth-Millennium BCE Origin of the Three-Tanged “Epsilon” Axe - Benjamin Sass and Michael Sebbane 
The Origin and Distribution of the Collared-Rim Pithos and Krater: A Case of Conservative Pottery Production in the Ancient Near East from the Fourth to the First Millennium BCE - Eli Yannai

Part 2 Middle and Late Bronze 
Age Studies “Filling in” the Void: Observations on the Habitation Pattern at Tel Akko at the End of the Late Bronze Age - Michal Artzy 
Nomads or mnmn.t-Shepherds in the Eastern Nile Delta in the New Kingdom - Manfred Bietak 
Quelques perles de cornaline - Annie Caubet et Marguerite Yon 
Female Figurines from the Deir el-Balah Settlement and Cemetery - Trude Dothan 
The Political Organization of the City-States in Southwestern Palestine in the Late Bronze Age IIB (13th Century BC) - Michaël Jasmin 
Architecture et modélisme au Proche-Orient - Jean-Claude Margueron 
Middle Bronze Age II Minor Cult Places at Ebla? - Paolo Matthiae 
A Seal-Cutter’s Workshop at Enkomi and Its Implications for the Nationality of Late Cypriot Bronze Age Glyptics - Robert S. Merrillees 
A Corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian-Style Pottery from Tel Beth-Shean - Robert A. Mullins 
An Egyptian Marsh Scene on Pottery from Tel Seraˁ: A Case of Egyptianization in Late Bronze Age III Canaan - Eliezer D. Oren 
Sinuhe’s World - Anson F. Rainey

Part 3 Philistine/Sea Peoples Studies
Philistine Bichrome Pottery: The View from the Northern Canaanite Coast - Ayelet Gilboa, Anat Cohen-Weinberger, Yuval Goren 
A Philistine “Head Cup” (Rhyton) from Tell es-Sâfi/Gath - Aren M. Maeir 
The Political Organization of the Philistines - Itzhaq Shai 
The Chronology of the Philistine Monochrome Pottery: An Outsider’s View - Susan Sherratt 
Biblical Philistines: A Hellenistic Literary Creation? - Lawrence E. Stager 
The Sea Peoples Cult in Philistia and Northern Israel - Ephraim Stern

Volume 2 

Part 4 Iron Age Studies 
Ecological Principles in the Bible: Surviving in the Hill Country - Oded Borowski 
The Early Israelite Monarchy in the Sorek Valley: Tel Beth-Shemesh and Tel Batash (Timnah) in the 10th and 9th Centuries BCE - Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman 
The Excavations at Tell el-Hammah: A Prelude to Amihai Mazar’s Beth-Shean Valley Regional Project - Jane M. Cahill 
Archaeology and Ancient Israelite Iconography: Did Yahweh Have a Face? - William G. Dever 
Farmsteads in the Foothills of Western Samaria: A Reexamination - Avraham Faust 
The lmlk Jar-Form Redefined: A New Class of Iron Age II Oval-Shaped Storage Jar - Seymour Gitin 
Black-Burnished Ammonite Bowls from Tall al-ˁUmayri and Tall Hisban in Jordan - Larry G. Herr 
Notes on Religious Symbolism in Cypriot Vase-Painting, ca. 1050–600 BC - Vassos Karageorghis 
The Emergence of Ancient Israel: The Social Boundaries of a “Mixed Multitude” in Canaan - Ann E. Killebrew 
Can a Proto-Israelite Please Stand Up? Notes on the Ethnicity of Iron Age Israel and Judah - Raz Kletter 
Does the “Low Chronology” Work? A Case Study of Tell Qasile X, Tel Gezer X, and Lachish V - Steven M. Ortiz 
“Off the Wall”: Wall Brackets and Cypriots in Iron Age I Israel - Nava Panitz-Cohen 
The Provenance of the Unpublished Ivories from Samaria - Ron E. Tappy

Part 5 Historical, Biblical, and Epigraphic Studies 
The Function of the m(w)ṣh-Stamped Jars Revisited - Diana Edelman 
The Historical Prologue in a Letter from Suppiluliuma II to ˁAmmurapiˀ, King of Ugarit (RS 18.038) - Amir Sumakaˀi Fink 
The Complex of Traditions in Judges 4 and 5 and the Religion of Pre-state Israel - Volkmar Fritz 
Salomon et la fille de Pharaon: Un problème d’interprétation historique - André Lemaire 
The Search for Gibeah: Notes on the Historical Geography of Central Benjamin - William M. Schniedewind 
The Hittites and the Bible Revisited - Itamar Singer 
A Provenance Study of Hebrew Seals and Seal Impressions: A Statistical Analysis - Andrew G. Vaughn and Carolyn Pillers Dobler

Part 6 Jerusalem Studies 
The Solomonic Wall in Jerusalem - Eilat Mazar 
Jerusalem of Gold—Revisited - Shalom M. Paul 
On the Original Length of Hezekiah’s Tunnel: Some Critical Notes on David Ussishkin’s Suggestions - Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron 
The Burials of the Judean Kings: Sociohistorical Considerations and Suggestions - Jeffrey R. Zorn

Part 7 Post–Iron Age Studies 
Two Notes on the History and Archaeology of Judea in the Persian Period - Hanan Eshel and Boaz Zissu 
The Application of Ethnographic Analogy to the Examination of Roman/Byzantine Pastoral Practices in the Mount Carmel Region - Liora Kolska Horwitz 
The Structure and Installations at Hulda and Their Function as a Jewish Winepress - Amos Kloner 
The Ceramic Incense Shovels from Sepphoris: Another View - Eric M. Meyers 
The Tyranny of Texts: A Rebellion against the Primacy of Written Documents in Defining Archaeological Agendas - Steven A. Rosen