To Explore the Land of Canaan: Studies in Biblical Archaeology in Honor of Jeffrey R. Chadwick

Preface
Contents
A Retrospective on the Career and Impact of Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Archaeologist and Educator
Biblical Historical Geography
Asking for a Place: Identifying the Location of Biblical Eshta’ol
“And There Was Peace between Israel and the Amorites” (1 Sam 7:14): A Biblical and Archaeological View on Israelites and Canaanites in the Shephelah in Late Iron Age I
Finding Mash and His Brothers – The Historical Geography of the “Sons” of Aram (Gen 10:23; 1 Chr 1:17)
Bronze Age Canaan and Its Neighbors
Let’s Trade: Carnelian Beads in the Early and Intermediate Bronze Age Southern Levant
A Better Cut: Diachronic Trends of Butchering Patterns and Technology through the Early and Middle Bronze Ages at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan
The Zooarchaeology of Cult: The Animal Remains from Moshe Dothan’s Excavations of the Middle Bronze Age Canaanite Temple Complex at Nahariya, Israel
Comparing Holes for Ritual Activities at the Snefru Bent and Seila Pyramids
Domus et Urbs: Levantine Middle Bronze Age Jar-Burials as a Family Reaction to Reurbanization
Iron Age Israel and Its Neighbors
A Tale of Two Looms – Domestic Weaving at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath
The Food Was Heavenly: Reflections from the Northern Frontier on Divine and Royal Banquets in the Assyrian Empire
All in All, It’s Just Another Stone in the Wall: From Safi to Sicily, 12th-Century Monumental Architecture in the Mediterranean
“The Restaurant at the End of . . . ”: A Discussion of Iron Age Funerary Meats from the Southern Levant
Multiple Aspects of Tribalism in Iron I Israel
“I Should Speedily Escape into the Land of the Philistines” (1 Sam 27:1): Theoretical and Methodical Change in the Archaeology of Philistia
The “Four-Room-House” Complex at Tell Dothan, Area A: An Analysis of Function, Demography, and Cultural Identity
“Will the Ax Boast Against the One Who Cuts with It?” The Use of Axes and Pickaxes in Iron Age Warfare
A Note on the Importance of the Name Manasseh as King of Judah
Ittai and Obed-Edom: The Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for the Presence of Gittite Refugees in Jerusalem
Second Temple Israel
Olive Processing and Ritual Purity in the “Place of the Oil Press”: Reexamining the 1st-Century Features and Functions of Jerusalem’s Gethsemane Grotto
Index