The Practice of Canaanite Cult: The Middle and Late Bronze Ages (Agypten Und Altes Testament, 106)

Preface\nContent\nList of Abbreviations\nPart I: \rIntroduction and Overview of the Research\n	Chapter 1: \rIntroduction\n		1.1 The Research Topic: Religion in the Southern Levant\n		1.2 The Need for a New Approach to Canaanite Religion\n		1.3 Aims and Research Questions\n		1.4 Methodology\n		1.5 The Novelty of this Book’s Approach\n		1.6 Organizational Scheme of this Book\n	Chapter 2: Overview of the Research: Working Definitions, \rBackground, and Rationale\n		2.1 Definitions: Defining the Terms of this Study – “Middle and Late Bronze Canaan” and “Canaanite Religion”\n		2.2 General Overview of the MB and LB Southern Levant\n		2.3 History of Research and Scholarship of Canaanite Religion\n		2.4 Theory\nPart II: \rCultic Architecture in the Southern Levant\n	Chapter 3: \rTowards a New Direction in Analyzing Canaanite Cultic Architecture\n		3.1 What are Temples?\n		3.2 The Study of Cultic Architecture\n		3.3 The Layout of Part II\n	Chapter 4: Architecture\n		4.1 Organization of the Analysis on Temple Architecture\n		4.2 The Intermediate Bronze Age\n		4.3 MB Open-Air Loci of Cultic Activity\n		4.4 Urban Migdal Temples in MB Canaan: A Standardized Form \rof Temple Architecture\n			4.4.1 Ugarit\n			4.4.2 Hazor\n			4.4.3 Megiddo\n			4.4.4 Shechem\n			4.4.5 Pella\n			4.4.6 Tel Haror\n			4.4.7 Tell el-Dab‘a\n		4.5 Rural Migdal Temples\n			4.5.1 Tell el-Hayyat\n			4.5.2 Tel Kitan\n		4.6 Discussion: Migdal Temples in the Southern Levant and Beyond\n		4.7 Other less well-defined Temples from the MB\n			4.7.1 Givat Sharett\n			4.7.2 Naḥal Repha’im\n			4.7.3 Manaḥat\n			4.7.4 Al-Walajah\n			4.7.5 Ashkelon\n		4.8 New Temples in the LB\n			4.8.1 Lachish\n			4.8.2 Beth Shean\n			4.8.3 Tel Mevorakh\n			4.8.4 Hazor Area C\n			4.8.5 Tell Abu Hawam\n			4.8.6 Tell Abu Al-Kharaz\n		4.9 Discussion: Making Sense of the Diversity in Canaanite Temple Architecture\n	Chapter 5Temple Courtyards\n		5.1 Methodology\n		5.2 Temples with a Temenos\n			5.2.1 Hazor\n			5.2.2 Megiddo\n			5.2.3 Tel Haror\n			5.2.4 Tell el-Dab‘a\n			5.2.5 Ugarit\n		5.3 Open-Air Sites\n			5.3.1 Nahariya\n			5.3.2 Byblos\n			5.3.3 Gezer\n		5.4 Temple Courtyards: Access Points to the Divine\n	Chapter 6: Synthesis and Conclusions\n		6.1 Southern Levantine Temples as Houses?\n		6.2 Integrating Temple and Temple Courtyard\nPart III: Activities in Canaanite Temples\n	Chapter 7: Identifying Activities in the Archaeological Record: \rIntroduction and Methodology\n		7.1 How to Determine Activity Types in Temples: The Need for a Methodology\n		7.2 Methods Used in Household Archaeology\n		7.3 Methodology in the Archaeological Study of Cult: A Rubric for Identifying Activity Types in Cultic Contexts\n		7.4 Types of Contexts Considered in this Study\n	Chapter 8: \rHazor Area H, the Orthostat Temple\n		8.1 Contextual Analysis\n		8.2 Analysis of Behavioral Patterns\n		8.3 The Use of Space in the Orthostat Temple: General Trends and Diachronic \rChanges in how Cult was Practiced in Area H at Hazor\n	Chapter 9: Hazor Area C, the Stelae Temple\n		9.1 Contextual Analysis\n		9.2 Analysis of Behavioral Patterns\n		9.3 Vernacular Cult at Hazor: Interpretation of the Stelae Temple\n	Chapter 10: Lachish Fosse Temple\n		10.1 Contextual Analysis\n		10.2 Analysis of Behavioral Patterns\n		10.3 The Idiosyncratic Practice of Cult at the Fosse Temple\n	Chapter 11Tel Mevorakh\n		11.1 Contextual Analysis\n		11.2 Analysis of Behavioral Patterns\n		11.3 The Role and Function of the Roadside Shrine at Tel Mevorakh\n	Chapter 12Nahariya\n		12.1 Contextual Analysis\n		12.2 Analysis of Behavioral Patterns\n		12.3 The Nahariya Cult: A Unique MB Extramural Space within the Canaanite Religious Landscape\n	Chapter 13: Other Cultic Sites in the MB and LB Southern Levant\n		13.1 General Trends\n		13.2 MB Cultic Sites\n			13.2.1 Tell el-Hayyat\n			13.2.2 Lachish Area D\n			13.2.3 Tel Haror\n			13.2.4 Sidon\n			13.2.5 Tell el-Dab‘a\n		13.3 LB Cultic Sites\n			13.3.1 Lachish Acropolis Temple\n			13.3.2 Beth Shean, Temple 58066\n			13.3.3 Tel Nami\n			13.4 Discussion and Conclusions: Trends in Canaanite Cultic Sites\n	Chapter 14Household Activity Types\n		14.1 Hazor, Area C (MB III): Household Activities\n		14.2 LB and Iron Age Southern Levantine Household Activities\n		14.3 Trends in Activity Types Outside of the Southern Levant\n	Chapter 15: Canaanite Activities in Cultic Spaces\n		15.1 Understanding the Activities Conducted within Canaanite Temples\n		15.2 The Contrast between Activities in Cultic Spaces Versus Domestic Spaces\n		15.3 The Use of Space in Other Ancient Near Eastern Temples\n		15.4 Ritual, Ritualization, and Activities in Canaanite Cultic Spaces\n		15.5 Conclusions: The Utility of the Methodology\nPart IV: Between Praxis and Ideology\n	Chapter 16: Religious Praxis\n		16.1 Introduction\n		16.2 Diachronic Change\n		16.3 Practices According to Ritual Texts\n		16.4 Canaanite Ritual Praxis\n		16.5 Insights into Ritual Praxis in Canaan\n	Chapter 17: \rCanaanite Religious Structure and Ideology\n		17.1 Introduction\n		17.2 Methodological Approach to the Use of Text and Analogy in this Study\n		17.3 Canaanite Religious Ideologies\n		17.4 The Structure of Cult and Ritual\n		17.5 Iconography\n		17.6 Discussion: Insights into Religious Ideology through Analogy\n		17.7 Conclusions: The Particulars of Canaanite Religious Ideology\nPart V: Conclusions\n	Chapter 18: Conclusions\n		18.1 Conclusions Arrived at in this Book\n		18.2 New Insights into Canaanite Religion\n		18.3 Concluding Remarks: Why all of this Matters\nBibliography\nTables\nFigures