Saturday, May 24, 2025

Bet Yeraḥ: The Early Bronze Age Mound Volume I: Excavation Reports, 1933–1986

Bet Yeraḥ: The Early Bronze Age Mound Volume I: Excavation Reports, 1933–1986

This is the first volume of a series describing the results of 11 excavation campaigns at Tel Bet Yeraḥ, a large mound situated at the exit of the Jordan River from the Sea of Galilee, which took place over some 50 years (1933–1986). This first volume presents the stratigraphic framework and the Early Bronze Age pottery. The second volume (IAA Reports 54) presents the Early Bronze Age artifact assemblages and a synthetic treatment of the results. The third volume (IAA Reports 61) describes the Hellenistic and Islamic finds.

EISBN

9789654065689

Publication Date

11-2006

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority

City

Jerusalem

Keywords

Khirbat Kerak, Sea of Galilee, Early Bronze Age pottery, Middle Bronze Age pottery, fortifications

Disciplines

Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Life Sciences | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Download Front Matter (56 KB)

Download Chapter 1: History of Investigations and Excavations at Tel Bet Yeraḥ (919 KB)

Download Chapter 2: Area MS: The Mazar–Stekelis Excavations, 1944–1945 (2.1 MB)

Download Chapter 3: Area SA: The Stekelis–Avi-Yonah Excavations (Circles Building), 1945–1946 (2.8 MB)

Download Chapter 4: Area GB: The Guy–Bar-Adon Soundings in the Northern Part of the Mound, 1949–1955 (1.3 MB)

Download Chapter 5: Area BS: The Bar-Adon Excavations, Southeast, 1951–1953 (9.4 MB)

Download Chapter 6: Area BF: The Bar-Adon Excavations of the Fortifications, 1952–1955 (3.5 MB)

Download Chapter 7: Area UN: The Ussishkin–Netzer Excavations, 1967 (4.9 MB)

Download Chapter 8: Area EY: The Eisenberg–Yogev Excavations, 1981–1982, 1985–1986 (14.5 MB)

Download Chapter 9: Minor Excavations, 1933–1977: Areas MK, RV and BH (1.3 MB)

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Das Alte Testament auf dem Weg zu seiner Theologie: Grundzüge der Religionsgeschichte und der Hermeneutik

Christoph Levin  
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2025. VIII, 106 pages.
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-164173-2
Published in German.
Based on the ongoing controversy between systematic theology and Old Testament exegesis, Christoph Levin provides a concise overview of the changed picture of the religious history of Israel and Judah as it emerges from the latest findings of biblical scholarship.
Table of contents:
Die Exegese als Herausforderung für die Theologie
Der Streit um das Alte Testament
Das Alte Testament als die dunkle Folie des Evangeliums
Die Geschichte als Verbündeter der Theologie
Die veränderte Forschungslage
Der jüdische Ursprung des Alten Testaments

Grundzüge der Religionsgeschichte
Israel entsteht durch das Königtum
Die Anfänge der Jahwe-Verehrung
Israel und Juda im Streit um Jahwe
Juda wird Israel
Das Ende des Königtums in Juda
Die Spaltung der David-Dynastie
Israel als Knecht Jahwes
Die neue Lesart der Prophetie
Das Wort Jahwes
Der Bund mit Jahwe
Die religiöse Bedeutung des Rechts
Aus Recht wird Ethos
Die theologische Weiterarbeit in Babylon
Die Fiktion des leeren Landes
Der angebliche Neubeginn in Juda
Die Priesterschrift
Die Bedeutung der Abstammung
Die Vielfalt des entstehenden Judentums
Die Schlüsselrolle der Diaspora
Garizim und Zion
Das Bündnisverbot und die Forderung des Glaubens
Jahwe und die Völker
Auf dem Weg zum Monotheismus
Das Problem der Gerechtigkeit Gottes
Sektenwesen und Endgericht
Die bleibende Hoffnung auf das Königtum
Verheißung als Mitte des Alten Testaments
Der offene Kanon

Grundzüge der Hermeneutik
Die freie Wahrheit
Der Ursprung des Christentums
Kontinuität und Diskontinuität
Jesus von Nazareth als Messias
Die enttäuschte Erwartung
Das Alte Testament bestimmte die Erinnerung an Jesus
Die bleibende Diskrepanz
Das Neue Testament als Ausgangspunkt
Die Rechtfertigung der Verheißung
Zwei Alte Testamente
Der mehrfache Sinn der Schrift
Die Relativierung des Alten Testaments
Das Alte Testament und die Religionen der Welt
Das Alte Testament als Resonanzkörper des Evangeliums
Die Unabgeschlossenheit des Alten Testaments

 

 

 

Eusebios, Porphyrios und Augustin im Kampf um Deutungshoheit

Edited by Volker Henning Drecoll and Irmgard Männlein-Robert  
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Sponsored by: Sonderforschungsbereich 923
Published in German.
Platonism and Christianity perceived each other as a threat in late antiquity. Through reflection and polemics, they each attempted to establish their own sovereignty of interpretation and to invalidate the orientation promised by the other order. In their essays, the contributors of this volume focus on the influential Platonist Porphyrios and his fight against the Christian authors Eusebios of Caesarea and Augustine of Hippo.
Table of contents:
Wolfram Kinzig: Die Ausbreitung des Christentums als Humanisierungsprozess: Eusebios verteidigt die Neuheit seiner Religion - Sabrina Inowlocki Meister: A New Christian »Order of Books«? Eusebius's Bio-Bibliographical Catalogue of the Christian Authors in the Historia ecclesiastica - Mark Edwards: Porphyry and Eusebius on Egypt - Lisa Neumann Eusebios gegen Hierokles im Kampf um Deutungshoheit - Giuseppe Muscolino: The Double Aspect of Theurgic Ritual in Porphyry's Philosophy from Oracles (Philosophia ex oraculis) - Sébastien Morlet: Eusebius, Augustine and Porphyry (?) on theologia tripertita - Giovanni Catapano: Pagan Classics against Pagan Critics of the Gospels. Augustine's Argument in De consensu euangelistarum, Book 1 - Gillian Clark: Melius sapuit iste Porphyrius. Augustine Appropriates Porphyry - David DeMarco: Augustine and Porphyry on the Wisdom of the Hebrews and Chaldeans - Gretchen Reydams-Schils: Calcidius, Nemesius, and Porphyry

 

 

Ciceronian Invectives: Emotions, Configurations, and Reactions

Edited by Philipp Geitner, Dennis Pausch, Christoph Schwameis and Rainer Wierzcholowski  
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Sponsored by: SFB (DFG)
Political communication in the late Roman Republic was highly coloured by rhetorical repertoires featuring disparagement, shaming, and other related phenomena. One of the most prolific perpetrators of such verbal conduct - known as invective - was the orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC). This volume, which gathers the contributions delivered during the conference »Ciceronian Invective. Emotions, Reactions, Performance«, held at Dresden's Technische Universität in 2020, takes a fresh look at the practices reflected in and relating to Cicero's tirades. By comprehending invective not only as a mere literary genre, but also as a practice embedded in social and political contexts, the aim is to arrive at a deeper understanding of Ciceronian invective. The emotions that such use of language aroused, its historical and rhetorical configurations, and the reactions of those offended by it or on its receiving end as an audience are all considered.
Table of contents:
Section I: Emotions
Christopher Degelmann:Ex ore impurissimo euomuit: Disgust and vomiting in Cicero's invective repertoire - Judith Hack: Sexual insults in Cicero? - Ken Heuring: Emotional language in the Second Philippic

Section II: Configurations
Catherine Steel: Invective and provincial government: Cicero and his predecessors - Rainer Wierzcholowski: Cicero's rhetorical technique of apostrophe and attack: The case of Hortensius in the Verrines - Christoph Schwameis: Incidents of invective in the 'pirate chapter' of De suppliciis

Section III: Reactions
Henriette van der Blom: The alternative story: Contemporary invective responses to Cicero - Kathryn Tempest: Cicero under attack: Deception and emotions in the Trial of Plancius - Christoph Pieper:Catilina in senatu obmutuit? Ancient and medieval responses to Cicero's first Catilinarian speech

 

 

 

Friday, May 23, 2025

‘En Esur (‘Ein Asawir) I: Excavatios at a Protohistoric Site in the Coastal Plain of Israel

‘En Esur (‘Ein Asawir) I: Excavatios at a Protohistoric Site in the Coastal Plain of  Israel

‘En Esur is a large, multi-level protohistoric site with a sequence of settlements from the Neolithic, Early Chalcolithic, Late Chalcolithic periods and Early Bronze Age I. It grew up in an area of copious springs and rich alluvial fields in the northern Sharon Plain. A large-scale salvage excavation in 1993, and further excavations in 1999 and 2004, revealed exceptional architectural and material-cultural finds, including rich pottery, flint and groundstone assemblages.

EISBN

9789654065696

Publication Date

12-2006

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority

City

Jerusalem

Keywords

Neolithic pottery, Wadi Rabah, Neolithic flint, northern Sharon Plain, Early Bronze Age pottery

Disciplines

Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Life Sciences | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Download Chapter 1: Introduction (401 KB)

Download Chapter 2: The Stratigraphy and Architecture of Area B (4.5 MB)

Download Chapter 3: The Stratigraphy and Architecture of Areas A, C, D, E, F, G and H (983 KB)

Download Chapter 4: The Pottery Assemblages (10.0 MB)

Download Chapter 5: The Flint Assemblages (4.1 MB)

Download Chapter 6: The Groundstone Assemblages (1001 KB)

Download Chapter 7: The Small Finds: Stone Clay and Bone Objects (494 KB)

Download Chapter 8: The Metal Adze (185 KB)

Download Chapter 9: Palynology at ‘En Esur: The Advance of Marshes as a Possible Cause for Settlement Desertion (48 KB)

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Download Appendix 1: The Radiocarbon Dates (37 KB)

Download Appendix 2: The Bronze Coins (39 KB)

Download Appendix 3: List of Loci: Area B (65 KB)

Download Appendix 4: List of Loci: Areas A, C, D, E, F, G, H (60 KB)

 

 

Tel Mor: The Moshe Dothan Excavations, 1959–1960

 Tel Mor: The Moshe Dothan Excavations, 1959–1960

This is the final report of the excavations carried out by Moshe Dothan in 1959 at Tel Mor, a small tell in the coastal plain. Finds from the Middle Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period were uncovered, and some Roman-period and later finds as well. The principal remains date to the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, represented by a series of large buildings on the summit of the tell. Two of these buildings appear to be forts, and as they were accompanied by significant quantities of Egyptianized pottery, they may have functioned as Egyptian garrisons in Canaan. The rich finds include Canaanite, Philistine Egyptian and Egyptianized, Cypriot and Mycenean pottery, as well as flint, metal and groundstone assemblages and glyptics.

EISBN

9789654065702

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Disciplines

Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Life Sciences | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Download Chapter 2: Stratigraphy and Building Remains (2.3 MB)

Download Chapter 3: Canaanite and Philstine Pottery (1.6 MB)

Download Chapter 4: Egyptian and Egyptianized Pottery (610 KB)

Download Chapter 5: Cypriot and Mycenean Pottery (311 KB)

Download Chapter 6: Potmarks (140 KB)

Download Chapter 7: Glyptics (579 KB)

Download Chapter 8: Metals and Metallurgy (287 KB)

Download Chapter 9: Lithics (110 KB)

Download Chapter 10: Groundstone Objects (123 KB)

Download Chapter 11: Faunal Remains (102 KB)

Download Chapter 12: Marine Shells (97 KB)

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Download Appendix 1: A Stamped Amphora and a Herodian Coin (160 KB)

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NYSA-Scythopolis: The Caesareum and the Odeum

NYSA-Scythopolis: The Caesareum and the Odeum

This is the first volume of publications of the Bet She’an Archaeological Project, describing the large-scale IAA excavations at the site of Bet She’an, ancient Nysa-Scythopolis, during 1986–2002. The excavations were followed by vast preservation and development works. This first volume describes the stratigraphy and architecture of the Caesareum and Odeum, erected within the monumental Roman–Byzantine civic center of the city, as well as the Hellenistic-Roman pottery and architectural elements.

EISBN

9789654065719

Publication Date

1-9-2007

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority

City

Jerusalem

Keywords

Roman theater, Roman architecture, civic center, Roman city planning, auditoriums

Disciplines

Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Life Sciences | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Download Chapter 2: The Pre-Odeum Complex (395 KB)

Download Chapter 3: The Caesareum and Odeum Complex (47.8 MB)

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Download Chapter 5: The Inner Compound of the Caesareum (1.3 MB)

Download Chapter 6: The Pottery (154 KB)

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Download Chapter 8: The Metal Finds (81 KB)

Download Chapter 9: The Architectural Elements (1.7 MB)

Download Chapter 10: The Architectural Order Compositions (145 KB)

Download Chapter 11: The Stage 1 Public Halls (38 KB)

Download Chapter 12: The Caesareum (175 KB)

Download Chapter 13: The Halls Flanking the Odeum (32 KB)

Download Chapter 14: The Odeum (1.1 MB)

Download Chapter 15: Analysis of Regional Odea (106 KB)

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Download Appendix 1: List of Loci and Baskets (312 KB)

Download Appendix 2: Lists of Coins (55 KB)

Download Appendix 3: List of Architectural Elements (111 KB)

Download Appendix 4: Glossary of Selected Architectural Terms (79 KB)