Editor Noga Carmin (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. x, 300 pages, 7 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 31 cm. ' This book describes the discovery of two agricultural settlements which illuminate Jewish rural life during the Second Temple period. Most important is the unearthing of a synagogue, dating from before the destruction of the Second Temple' Contents: The Land of Benjamin in the Second Temple period / Yitzhak Magen -- Qalandiya : a Second Temple-period viticulture and wine-manufacturing agricultural settlement / Yitzhak Magen -- The coins from Qalandiya / Donald T. Ariel -- Khirbet Badd ʻIsa-Qiryat Sefer / Yitzhak Magen, Yoav Tzionit and Orna Sirkis -- The coins from Khirbet Badd ʻIsa-Qiryat Sefer / Gabriela Bijovsky.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. xiii, 498 pages : illustrations (some in colour), map ; 32 cm. This volume is part of five volumes intended to provide a better understanding of Christians and Christianity in Samaria and Judea, from the Byzantine to the Crusader periods. Here are summarized most of the church and monastery excavations conducted in Samaria and northern Judea in the last three decades. The excavations reveal that monasteries were established within fourth-century CE military structures. They further show that industrial oil presses do not date to the monastery phase at the site but rather to the Umayyad and Abbasid periods. The volume also includes a discussion of the mosaics uncovered in various sites in Judea and Samaria.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. xiii, 506 pages : illustrations (some in colour), map ; 32 cm. This volume is part of five volumes intended to provide a better understanding of Christians and Christianity in Samaria and Judea, from the Byzantine to the Crusader periods. Here are summarized most of the church and monastery excavations conducted in Samaria and northern Judea in the last three decades. The excavations reveal that monasteries were established within fourth-century CE military structures. They further show that industrial oil presses do not date to the monastery phase at the site but rather to the Umayyad and Abbasid periods. The volume also includes a discussion of the phenomenon of iconoclasm that spread through the churches and Jewish synagogues in the Umayyad period.…