NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF NELSON GLUECK

Sanders, James A. editor

Published by Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1970

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Original Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. Xxiv, 406 pages ills. Maps, plans, port. 25 cm. CONTENTS: Foreword: "This is for a celebration ." by J. A. Sanders; Preface: "The mind of Nelson Glueck, " by F. Bamberger; Introduction: "The phenomenon of American archaeology in the Near East, " by G. E. Wright. James Henry Breasted; "The idea of an oriental institute, " by J. A. Wilson. "The phenomenon of Israeli archaeology, " by W. F. Albright. "On right and wrong uses of archaeology, " by R. De Vaux; The Bronze Age - "The beginnings of urbanization in Canaan, " by R. Amiran. "Palestine in the early Bronze Age, " by P. W. Lapp. "The â Middle Bronze I' period in Syria and Palestine, " by W. G. Dever. "Northern Canaan and the Mari texts, " by A. Malamat. "The saltier of Atargatis reconsidered, " by M. H. Pope. The Iron Age - "Symbols of deities at Zinjirli, Carthage and Hazor, " by Y. Yadin. "Israelite Jerusalem, " by K. M. Kenyon. "New aspects of the Israelite occupation in the north, " by Y. Aharoni. The Megiddo stables, a reassessment, " by J. B. Pritchard. The scripts in Palestine and Transjordan in the Iron Age, " by J. Naveh. Ammonite and Moabite seals, " by N. Avigad; The Persian period and beyond - "The cave inscriptions from Khirbet Beit Lei, " by F. M. Cross, Jr; "New excavations at Sardis and some problems of western Anatolian archaeology, " by G. M. A. Hanfmann and J. C. Waldbaum; "Another deity with Dolphins? " By R. D. Barnett; "Archaeology and Babylonian Jewry, " by J. Neusner and J. Z. Smith; "A sequence of pottery from Petra, " by P. J. Parr. Bibliography of Nelson Glueck, " by E. K. Vogel (pages [382]-394) . SUBJECT(S) : Bijbelse archeologie. Glueck, Nelson, 1900-1972 -- Bibliography. Middle East -- Antiquities. Includes bibliographical references. Very good condition in GOOD+ jacket. (FEST1-60). Seller Inventory # 27193

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Title: NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE TWENTIETH ...

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday

Publication Date: 1970

Binding: Hardcover

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