Kiriath-jearim

Israel Finkelstein is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the Head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Culture at the University of Haifa. He is Co-director of the Megiddo Expedition. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of the French Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. He is the Laureate of the Dan David Prize, 2005, and Recipient of the MacAllister Field Archaeology Award of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2017. He has authored and edited 23 books and published some 450 scholarly articles. Thomas Roemer is Professor at the College de France and its President since 2019 and is Professor Emeritus of the University of Lausanne. He holds honorary doctorates from Tel Aviv University and the Catholic University of Lyon. His current research covers the formation of the Torah, the so-called Deuteronomistic History and its social and historical setting, as well as the relationship between literary and archaeological approaches to understanding the Hebrew Bible. He is one of the main editors of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. His main publications include: Israels Vaeter (1990); The So-Called Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, Historical and Literary Introduction (translated into many languages); L'invention de Dieu (translated into many languages) and Genese 11,26-25,18; L'histoire d'Abraham.

CHAPTER 1 Introduction ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN, THOMAS ROEMER AND CHRISTOPHE NICOLLE CHAPTER 2 Kiriath-jearim in the Bible ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN AND THOMAS ROEMER CHAPTER 3 Area A ASSAF KLEIMAN AND YANA KIRILOV CHAPTER 4 Area B ZACHARY C. DUNSETH AND NAAMA WALZER CHAPTER 5 Area C JULIETTE MAS, EYTHAN LEVY AND ERIN HALL CHAPTER 6 Evidence for Activity in the Bronze Age and Early Phases of the Iron Age JULIETTE MAS AND ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN CHAPTER 7 Two Ceramic Assemblages from Area A ASSAF KLEIMAN CHAPTER 8 The Iron IIC Pottery from Area C JULIETTE MAS AND LIORA FREUD CHAPTER 9 The Hellenistic Pottery from Areas A and B DEBORA SANDHAUS CHAPTER 10 The Roman Pottery YANA KIRILOV CHAPTER 11 The Small Finds RELI AVISAR AND YANA KIRILOV CHAPTER 12 A Conoid Seal from Area A RELI AVISAR AND ASSAF KLEIMAN CHAPTER 13 Ceramic Figurines MARGARET E. COHEN CHAPTER 14 Stamped and Incised Jar Handles ODED LIPSCHITS AND IDO KOCH Contents CHAPTER 15 Potter's Marks and Other Incisions and Impressions on Handles ODED LIPSCHITS AND LIORA FREUD CHAPTER 16 Coins YOAV FARHI CHAPTER 17 Glass Finds RUTHY LEWIS-BLOOM CHAPTER 18 Hobnails YANA KIRILOV CHAPTER 19 Roof Tiles YANA KIRILOV CHAPTER 20 Dating the Main Architectural Features in Areas A and B: OSL Results and Archaeological Considerations ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN AND NAOMI PORAT CHAPTER 21 Seismic and Geodetic Investigation of the Summit YANIV DARVASI AND AMOTZ AGNON CHAPTER 22 Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Survey YANIV DARVASI AND AMOTZ AGNON CHAPTER 23 Faunal Remains from Area C LIDAR SAPIR-HEN CHAPTER 24 Ostraca Search Protocol EYTHAN LEVY AND SHIRA FAIGENBAUM-GOLOVIN CHAPTER 25 An Iron II Burial Cave on the Slope of Tel Kiriath-jearim GIDEON GOLDENBERG CHAPTER 26 The Iron II Burial Cave: The Pottery LIORA FREUD CHAPTER 27 The Iron II Burial Cave: The Human Remains VERED ESHED CHAPTER 28 The Iron II Burial Cave: Ancient DNA Sampling and Analysis of Uniparental Markers ARIE SHAUS AND DAVID REICH CHAPTER 29 Conclusions: The Settlement History of Kiriath-jearim ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN, THOMAS ROEMER AND CHRISTOPHE NICOLLE Index of Loci ANDREA GARZA-DIAZBARRIGA AND MA?AYAN REUVEN