Pub Date : 2022-08-19DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2099115
Emma Maayan-Fanar, Y. Tepper
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Pub Date : 2022-07-26DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2093539
A. Fraser
ABSTRACT The recent acquisition of the Hogarth Archive by Magdalen College Archives provides new insights to be achieved on the extraordinary work of David George Hogarth as one of the preeminent scholars of the Balkans and Middle East in the last half of the 19th and the early 20th century. He was a committee member of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) and director of the British Museum excavations at Carchemish. His role in the Wilderness of Zin Survey, a joint effort by the War Office and the PEF to map the region of Sinai in the anticipated advent of war with Turkey, has been further illuminated by the discovery of new letters written by C. Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence.
莫达伦学院档案馆最近收购了霍加斯档案，为了解19世纪下半叶和20世纪初巴尔干和中东地区杰出学者大卫·乔治·霍加斯的非凡工作提供了新的见解。他是巴勒斯坦探索基金(PEF)的委员会成员，也是大英博物馆在卡基米什的发掘主任。他在津荒野调查中所扮演的角色，是陆军部和PEF共同努力的，目的是在与土耳其的战争中绘制西奈地区的地图，C. Leonard Woolley和T. E. Lawrence所写的新信件的发现进一步阐明了这一角色。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2104977
J. Baird
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2095755
David Eitam
ABSTRACT The statement by Maeir and colleagues ‘that production of olive oil was a central aspect in the agricultural production in [Tell es-Safi/Gath] region already during the Iron I and Iron IIA’ (Maeir et al. 2020, 129) is being challenged here. The authors’ conclusions are examined by analysing the Iron Age IIA devices of Tell es-Safi/Gath, facing the development of olive oil production in Iron Age Israel. Perfume is the proposed alternative product manufactured by the installations of Tell es-Safi/Gath.
Maeir及其同事的声明“橄榄油生产在铁I和铁IIA时期就已经是[Tell - es-Safi/Gath]地区农业生产的核心方面”(Maeir et al. 2020, 129)在这里受到了挑战。作者的结论是通过分析Tell - es-Safi/Gath的铁器时代IIA装置来检验的，面对铁器时代以色列橄榄油生产的发展。香水是由Tell es-Safi/Gath装置制造的拟议替代产品。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2103985
J. Bjørnar Storfjell
An editor’s work is inevitably wrapped up in words, it is therefore fitting to spend a little time considering the nature and power of words in general, and particularly words from the ancient civilisations of the Near East. Words are the building blocks of literature, but in the ancient world words did not always have the same relationship with their referents that they do in most modern societies. Several submissions to this journal have been focusing on textual material, the results of ancient compositions—texts. To the casual reader it may seem quite natural that words have always related to their referents in the same way they do today, in our language. Such assumptions could easily lead to a complete misunderstanding of what the words were meant to convey. Since words are the medium of literature, a society’s understanding of literature will be closely connected to that society’s understanding of the nature of words. That understanding may be consciously formulated among modern linguists, psychologists, and philosophers. But most of the time words are understood the way they are habitually used in contemporary society. If we are to learn how ancient societies understood words, we must examine the extant literature to see how words are described and defined, how they functioned. In the modern world, we regard words almost exclusively as symbols by which we communicate ideas and feelings with one another. The word stands for or represents the realities about which information is communicated. The word as a word is perceived to be quite distinct from the reality it stands for, its referent. In the ancient Near East—Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt—the word had additional qualities. The word was not simply an expression of thought, but also an active force. It is as if the word passed on the actual reality of the thought being expressed. Words were invested with extraordinary attributes and even power, particularly if uttered by a divinity. But anyone who spoke a word could transmit the reality of the word. That is why, in the story in the Hebrew Bible, the Moabite king Balak asked Balaam to curse the Israelites (Num 22:2 ff.). Ancient Near Eastern literature, including the Hebrew Bible, may seem somewhat remote if we do not realise that the authors and editors considered words, the literary medium, capable of effects well beyond that of mere communication. I have on several occasions told my biblical studies colleagues that as an archaeologist my concerns are really the same as their concerns. After all, we are both seeking a better understanding of the ד ב ר (dabar). And in the very word for ‘word’—dabar—we find a fundamental difference in the comprehension of the reality of the ‘word’ in ancient Near Eastern literature when compared with most modern understandings of ‘word’. In addition to being a symbol the word is also a physical or metaphysical reality, a thing or a case. The word can be more than a mere symbol, it can be the referent
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Pub Date : 2022-05-09DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2069942
Shira Albaz, H. Greenfield, T. Greenfield, Annie Brown, Itzhaq Shai, A. Maeir
ABSTRACT Discussions on daily life in Early Bronze Age society in the southern Levant often focus on subsistence or ritual phenomena, while aspects relating to entertainment and leisure are rarely discussed. This paper presents evidence for gaming behaviour, in the form of game boards and game pieces, that were recovered in the excavations of the Early Bronze Age (early to mid-3rd millennium bce) residential neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. All the objects discussed are considered to be part of games (playing pieces, casting pieces, and boards) based on their resemblance to game boards and pieces published from various Early Bronze sites in the southern Levant (e.g., Arad, Megiddo, and Bab edh-Dhra), serve as the backdrop for: 1) a perspective on the social and cultural relationships reflected in these games; 2) an examination of the origins of the 'Senet/30 Houses' game; and 3) the appropriation of foreign cultural facets in Early Bronze Age Canaan.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2070247
Felicity Cobbing
{"title":"Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City","authors":"Felicity Cobbing","doi":"10.1080/00310328.2022.2070247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2022.2070247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44359,"journal":{"name":"Palestine Exploration Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42087312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2058265
O. Barkai, Alexandra Ratzlaff, I. Taxel
ABSTRACT A monumental building at the coastal site of Tel ‘Afar, on the Via Maris—the road linking Antioch and Alexandria, was previously identified as the villa of a wealthy citizen of Caesarea. A new geological and archaeological survey at the site and re-examination of the findings from previous excavations, provide a new interpretation of the function and character of this building. Taken together, the analysis of the ceramic assemblage and the architectural plan along with the elements, all suggest that the structure was a Christian basilica, dated to the Byzantine period (6th–mid-7th centuries ce). Therefore, this evidence calls for a revaluation and classification of Tel ‘Afar either as a monastery or church on a private coastal estate.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-25DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2050094
H. Greenfield, Jeremy A. Beller, J. Gaastra, D. Vieweger
ABSTRACT The Early Bronze Age (3500–2000 bce) of the southern Levant experienced the development of bronze metal technology, but the rate and nature of its dissemination beyond the elite are unclear. In the southern Levant and elsewhere, based upon the microscopic analysis of butchering marks, it has been proposed that bronze slicing tools only begin to be used in quantities in the Middle Bronze. However, previous analyses have always lacked data sets from the Early Bronze IV/Middle Bronze I period (c. 2500–2000 bce). In this paper, we present the butchered animal bone data from the site of Tall Zirā´a (in the NW corner of Jordan) where there is a fuller chronological sequence for the Early and Middle Bronze Ages. These data provide a unique opportunity to investigate long-term changes in butchering practices in the southern Levant. The analysis demonstrates that the new (bronze) technology does not seem to be integrated into quotidian activities, such as the processing of animal carcasses, until well into the Middle Bronze Age (MB IIB). Until then, and in subsequent phases of the MB, the majority of butchering marks are made by stone implements.
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