Near Eastern Archaeology (20 vols. | 74 issues | 1992–2011)

by G. Ernest Wright; American Schools of Oriental Research

Publisher:

American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)

, 1992–2011

Overview

Archaeological discoveries continually enrich our understanding of the people, culture, history, and literature of the Middle East. The heritage of its peoples—from urban civilizations to the Bible—both inspires and fascinates. Near Eastern Archaeology (formerly The Biblical Archaeologist) brings to life the ancient world, from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean, with vibrant images and authoritative analyses. This journal of the American School of Oriental Research at Boston University allows the reader to experience the physical remains of the cultures and locations the Bible speaks from. This collection includes 66 issues of Near Eastern Archaeology, published from 1992 to 2011.

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Key Features

• Authoritative original analyses on contemporary archaeological issues in the Middle East
• Vibrant images bring to life the Bible’s ancient context
• Scholarly reviews of archaeological publications end each volume

Product Details

• Title: Biblical Archaeologist / Near Eastern Archaeology (1992–2011)
• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)
• Volumes: 20
• Pages: 4,697

Biblical Archaeologist: 55.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1992
• Pages: 48

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Contents:

• “Perspectives on Phoenician Art,” by Shelby Brown
• “Phoenicians in Spain,” by Brigette Treumann-Watkins
• “What Can Happen in a Year?,” by James A. Sanders
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 55.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1992
• Pages: 45

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Contents:

• “Bronze Age Mediterranean Island Cultures and the Ancient Near East,” by A. Bernard Knapp
• “Sepphoris, the Well Remembered City,” by Stuart S. Miller
• “The Challenge of Hellenism for Early Judaism and Christianity,” by Eric M. Meyers
• “The Unpublished Qumran Texts from Caves 4 and 11,” by Emanual Tov
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 55.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1992
• Pages: 75

Contents:

• “In Memoriam: Kenneth Wayne Russell,” by Glen L. Peterman
• “Bronze Age Mediterranean Island Cultures and the Ancient Near East,” by A. Bernard Knapp
• “The Samaria Ivories, Marzeaḥ and Biblical Texts,” by Eleanor Ferris Beach
• “Archaeological Coverage in Recent One-Volume Bible Dictionaries,” by Victor H. Matthews and James C. Moyer
• “Philistine Silver and Jewelry Discovered at Ekron”
• Reviews
• “Geographic Information Systems: Archaeology’s Latest Tool,” by Glen L. Peterman

Biblical Archaeologist: 55.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1992
• Pages: 37

Contents:

• “Pushing Back the Frontiers of Mesopotamian Prehistory,” by Trevor Watkins
• “The Halaf Period in Iraq: Old Sites and New,” by Stuart Campbell
• “The First Farmers at Oueili,” by Jean-Louis Huot
• “Jemdet Nasr: The Site and the Period,” by Roger J. Matthews
• “Royal Building Activity at Sumerian Lagash in the Early Dynastic Period,” by Donald P. Hansen
• “Mashkan-shapir and the Anatomy of an Old Babylonian City,” by Elizabeth C. Stone and Paul Zimansky
• “West of Edin: Tell al-Deylam and the Babylonian City of Dilbat,” by James A. Armstrong
• “UC Berkeley’s Excavations at Nineveh,” by David Stronach and Stephen Lumsden
• Reviews
• “In Memoriam: Douglas L. Esse,” by Thomas E. Levy

Biblical Archaeologist: 56.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1993
• Pages: 52

Contents:

• “Albright as an Orientalist,” by Jack M. Sasson
• “Visions of the Future: Albright in Jerusalem, 1919–1929,” by Neil A. Silberman
• “Albright and the Gods of Mesopotamia,” by William W. Hallo
• “What Remains of the House That Albright Built?,” by William G. Dever
• “Mythic Trope in the Autobiography of William Foxwell Albright,” by Burke O. Long
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 56.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1993
• Pages: 56

Contents:

• “Pampered Pooches or Plain Pariahs? The Ashkelon Dog Burials,” by Paula Wapnish and Brian Hesse
• “Economics with an Entrepreneurial Spirit: Early Bronze Trade with Late Predynastic Egypt,” by Timothy P. Harrison
• “The Samaria Ivories, Marzeaḥ, and Biblical Text,” by Eleanor Ferris Beach
• “Southern Jordan Survey: Inscriptions, Rock Art, and Overland Trade,” by William J. Jobling
• “The New Alexandria Library: Promise or Threat?,” by Birger A. Pearson
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 56.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1993
• Pages: 44

Contents:

• “Profiles of Archaeological Institutes: The Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,” by Seymour Gitin, Amnon Ben-Tor, and Benny Sekay

Biblical Archaeologist: 56.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1993
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “From the Nile Valley to the Chad Basin: Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa Arab Settlements,” by Augustin F. C. Holl and Thomas E. Levy
• “Camels and Camel Pastoralism in Arabia,” by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson
• “The Edge of the Empire: The Archaeology of Pastoral Nomads in the Southern Negev Highlands in Late Antiquity,” by Steven A. Rosen and Gideon Avni
• “Pastoralists in Late Bronze Age Palestine: Which Way Did They Go?,” by David C. Hopkins
• “Where the Wild Stones Have Been Gathered Aside: Pastoralist Campsites in Wadi Ziqlâb, Jordan,” by E. B. Banning
• “The New Alexandria Library: An Update,” by Birger A. Pearson
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 57.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1994
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “Literary Sources for the History of Palestine and Syria: The Phœnician Inscriptions,” by Donald R. Vance
• “The Libation Installations of the Tombs at Ugarit,” by Wayne T. Pitard
• “A Medieval Church in Mesopotamia,” by Michael Fuller and Neathery Fuller
• “The Minoan Origin of Tyrian Purple,” by Robert R. Stieglitz
• “Discovery of Papyri in Petra,” by Glen L. Peterman
• “A Tribute to Siegfried H. Horn, March 17, 1908-November 28, 1993: In Memoriam,” by Lawrence T. Geraty
• “Some Remarks on the Samaria Ivories and Other Iconographic Resources,” by Pauline Albenda
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 57.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1994
• Pages: 56

Contents:

• “Archaeology in Lebanon in the Twentieth Century,” by William A. Ward
• “Had the Works of Philo Been Newly Discovered,” by Abraham Terian
• “Hellenization in Syria-Palestine: The Case of Judea in the Third Century BCE,” by Robert Harrison
• “Literary Sources for the History of Palestine and Syria: The Phœnician Inscriptions,” by Donald R. Vance

Biblical Archaeologist: 57.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1994
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “The Anchor Church at the Summit of Mt. Berenice, Tiberias,” by Yizhar Hirschfeld
• “A Wall Painting of a Saint’s Face in the Church of Mt. Berenice,” by Roni Ben-Arieh
• “The Iron 1 Western Defense System at Tell El-˓Umeiri, Jordan,” by Douglas R. Clark
• “The Oldest Datable Chambers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem,” by Shimon Gibson and David M. Jacobson
• “The Water Supply of the Desert Fortresses in the Jordan Valley,” by Günter Garbrecht and Yehuda Peleg
• “The Umm el-Jimal 1994 Field Season,” by Bert de Vries
• “The Roman Aqaba Project: Aila Rediscovered,” by S. Thomas Parker
• “Miqne/Ekron: Spring Season 1994,” by J. R. Chadwick
• “ASOR Outreach Education Annual Meeting: Workshop for Classroom Teachers,” by Carolyn Draper
• “Iron Age Sieve,” by Paul Jacobs
• British School at Athens: Photo Archive
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 57.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1994
• Pages: 51

Contents:

• “Beetles in Stone: The Egyptian Scarab,” by William A. Ward
• “The Fortresses at ˓En Ḥaṣeva,” by Rudolph Cohen
• “What’s in a Name: The Anonymity of Ancient Umm el-Jimal,” by Bert de Vries
• “The Woman Question and Female Ascetics among Essenes,” by Linda Bennett Elder
• “The Walls of Jerusalem: Synopsis of a New, Detailed Study,” by G. J. Wightman
• “˓Ain Ghazal 1993-1994,” by Zeidan Kafafi and Gary Rollefson
• “Megalithic Tomb at Tell el-˓Umeiri, Jordan,” by Boguslav Dabrowski, Øystein S. LaBianca and Elzbieta Dubis
• “Conservation of the Petra Papyri,” by Glen L. Peterman
• “The 1994 Kholetria Ortos Excavations,” by Alan H. Simmons
• “Vessels from Early Christian Church,” by Michael Fuller
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 58.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1995
• Pages: 60

Contents:

• “Herders... or Homesteaders? A Neolithic Farm in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan,” by E. B. Banning
• “Searching for Benchmarks in the Biblical World: The Development of Joseph A. Callaway as Field Archaeologist,” by Gerald L. Mattingly
• “New Light on King Narmer and the Protodynastic Egyptian Presence in Canaan,” by Thomas E. Levy, Edwin C. M. van den Brink, Yuval Goren and David Alon
• “Origin and Early History of the Qumran Sect,” by Lawrence H. Schiffman
• “The Cave of the Amphoras,” by Robert L. Hohlfelder
• “The Aliṣar Regional Project (1993-1994),” by Ronald L. Gorny
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 58.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1995
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “A Tribute to Peter Neve,” by Ronald L. Gorny
• “Forty Years in the Capital of the Hittites: Peter Neve Retires from His Position as Director of the Ḫattuša-Boğazköy Excavations,” by Jürgen Seeher
• “Plants and People in Ancient Anatolia,” by Mark Nesbitt
• “Hittite Pottery and Potters: The View from Late Bronze Age Gordion,” by Robert C. Henrickson
• “A Hittite Seal from Megiddo,” by Itamar Singer
• “An Urartian Ozymandias,” by Paul Zimansky
• “Swords, Armor, and Figurines,” by K. Aslıhan Yener
• “Oil in Hittite Texts,” by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr.
• “Desperately Seeking Faustus,” by Kathleen M. Lynch
• “Lahav DIGMASTER,” by Joe D. Seger
• “Flood Damage in Thebes,” by Nigel Strudwick
• “Tel ˓Ein Zippori, 1994,” by Carol Meyers
• “Sepphoris 1994,” by Carol Meyers
• “Anatolia and the Balkans,” by J. Roodenberg
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 58.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1995
• Pages: 56

Contents:

• “Emar, Capital of Aštata in the Fourteenth Century BCE,” by Jean-Claude Margueron and Veronica Boutte
• “More Help from Syria: Introducing Emar to Biblical Study,” by Daniel E. Fleming
• “Hezekiah’s Reforms and the Revolt against Assyria,” by Oded Borowski
• “Ancient Coins from the Drew Institute of Archaeological Research Excavations of Caesarea Maritima, 1971-1984,” by Jane DeRose Evans
• “Assyria at the Metropolitan Museum of Art”
• “Analytical Techniques in ‘Near Eastern Archaeology’: Phytolith Analysis,” by
• “Visitor Center Opens in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt,” by Roberta L. Shaw
• Reviews
• “Albright and the Origin of the Falasha,” by Irfan Shahîd and W. F. Albright
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology,” by John Younger

Biblical Archaeologist: 58.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1995
• Pages: 62

Contents:

• “Ethnicity, Pottery, and the Hyksos at Tell El-Maskhuta in the Egyptian Delta,” by Carol A. Redmount
• “Ethnicity, Pottery, and the Gulf Olmec of Ancient Veracruz, Mexico,” by Philip J. Arnold III
• “Ceramics, Ethnicity, and the Question of Israel’s Origins,” by William G. Dever
• “Why Painted Pottery Disappeared at the End of the Second Millennium BCE,” by H. J. Franken and Gloria London
• “The Iron Age Fortresses at ˓En Ḥaṣeva,” by Rudolph Cohen and Yigal Yisrael
• “Pillared Buildings in Iron Age Moab,” by Carolyn Routledge
• “Analytical Techniques in Near Eastern Archaeology: Materials and the Scanning Electron Microscope,” by Rob Mason
• “Conservation of Archaeological Sites in the Mediterranean Region: A Conference Organized by the J. Paul Getty Trust,” by Nicholas Stanley Price
• Reviews
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology,” by John Younger

Biblical Archaeologist: 59.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1996
• Pages: 72

Contents:

• “Forever Gordon: Portrait of a Master Scholar with a Global Perspective,” by Meir Lubetski and Claire Gottlieb
• “Homer and the Near East: The Rise of the Greek Genius,” by Louis H. Feldman
• “A ‘Mediterranean Synthesis’: Professor Cyrus H. Gordon’s Contributions to the Classics,” by Howard Marblestone
• “A Continuing Adventure: Cyrus Gordon and Mesopotamia,” by Martha A. Morrison
• “Someone Will Succeed in Deciphering Minoan: Cyrus H. Gordon and Minoan Linear A,” by Gary A. Rendsburg
• “The Father of Ugaritic Studies,” by David Toshio Tsumura
• “Magic Bowls: Cyrus H. Gordon and the Ubiquity of Magic in the Pre-Modern World,” by Edwin M. Yamauchi
• “Archaeological Applications of Advanced Imaging Techniques,” by Gregory H. Bearman and Sheila I. Spiro
• “The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt”
• “The Race against Progress in Central Jordan,” by Gerald Mattingly
• “New Philistine Finds at Tel Miqne-Ekron,” by Seymour Gitin
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology,” by John Younger

Biblical Archaeologist: 59.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1996
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “The Strange Search for the Ashes of the Red Heifer,” by Daniel C. Browning, Jr.
• “Terqa and the Kingdom of Khana,” by Mark Chavalas
• “Biblical Archaeology and the Press: Shaping American Perceptions of Palestine in the First Decade of the Mandate,” by Lawrence Davidson
• “The Disappearance of the Goddess Anat: The 1995 West Semitic Research Project on Ugaritic Epigraphy,” by Theodore J. Lewis
• “The Enigma of the Shekel Weights of the Judean Kingdom,” by Yigal Ronen
• “Major Award for Egyptian Temple Conservation,” by Peter Dorman
• “Did Akhenaten Suffer from Marfan’s Syndrome?,” by Alwyn Burridge
• “Urbanism in the Ancient near East: Conference Report,” by D. Bruce MacKay
• “International Symposium on Prehistoric and Tribal Art,” by Emmanual Anati
• “Corrigenda and Obscurus: Someone Will Succeed in Deciphering Minoan: Minoan Linear A as a West Semitic Dialect”
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology”
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 59.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1996
• Pages: 56

Contents:

• “Was the Siloam Tunnel Built by Hezekiah?,” by John Rogerson and Philip R. Davies
• “Syncretistic and Mnemonic Dimensions of Chalcolithic Art: A New Human Figurine from Shiqmim,” by Thomas E. Levy and Jonathan Golden
• “A Typology of West Semitic Place Name Lists with Special Reference to Joshua 13-21,” by Richard S. Hess
• “The Olive Pit and Roman Oil Making,” by E. Loeta Tyree and Evangelia Stefanoudaki
• “New Project Announcement: Excavations in the Land of Moab,” by P. M. Michèle Daviau
• “Statues from ˓Ain Ghazal at the Smithsonian,” by Arthur M. Sackler
• “Masada 1995: Discoveries at Camp F,” by Jodi Magness
• “Royal Temple Inscription Found at Philistine Ekron”
• “The Roman Aqaba Project: The Economy of Aila on the Red Sea,” by S. Thomas Parker
• “Analytical Techniques in Near Eastern Archaeology: Ethnography and Pottery Study,” by Susan Ellis-Lopez
• Reviews
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology”

Biblical Archaeologist: 59.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1996
• Pages: 56

Contents:

• “The Making of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the near East,” by Eric M. Meyers
• “Ethnicity and Origin of the Iron I Settlers in the Highlands of Canaan: Can the Real Israel Stand Up?,” by Israel Finkelstein
• “Appeals for Military Intervention: Stories from Zinjirli and the Bible,” by Simon B. Parker
• “Royal Officials and Court Families: A New Look at the םיךלי (yĕlādîm) in 1 Kings 12,” by Nili Fox
• “The Date of the Siloam Inscription: A Rejoinder to Rogerson and Davies,” by Ronald S. Hendel
• “˓Ain Ghazal Excavations 1996,” by Gary Rollefson and Zeidan Kafafi
• “Paleolithic Hunters in the Azraq Oasis,” by G. Rollefson, L. Quintero, R. Low, D. Schnurrenberger and R. Watson
• “Gold from the Combined Caesarea Expeditions, 1996,” by Martha K. Risser and Frederick A. Winter
• “Early Iron I Pillared Building at Tall al-˓Umayri,” by Douglas R. Clark
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology,” by John Younger
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 60.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1997
• Pages: 60

Contents:

• “Archaeological Sources for the History of Palestine: Between Large Forces: Palestine in the Hellenistic Period,” by Andrea M. Berlin
• “Archaeoentomology’s Potential in Near Eastern Archaeology,” by Eva Panagiotakopulu
• “Investigations of Urban Life in Madaba, Jordan,” by Timothy P. Harrison
• “North Carolina Museum of Art Presents Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture”
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology,” by John Younger
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 60.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1997
• Pages: 51

Contents:

• “Four Thousand Years of History at Tel Beth-Shean: An Account of the Renewed Excavations,” by Amihai Mazar
• “Urkesh: The First Hurrian Capital,” by Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
• “The Amarna Age Inscribed Clay Cylinder from Beth-Shean,” by Wayne Horowitz
• “Isotopes from Wood Buried in the Roman Siege Ramp of Masada: The Roman Period’s Colder Climate,” by Arie S. Issar and Dan Yakir
• “Searching for Ancient Egypt,” by Denise Doxey
• “Shiqmim’s Violin-Shaped Figurines and Ghassulian Bone Artifacts,” by Sandra A. Scham
• “The Glory of Byzantium”
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology,” by John Younger
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 60.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1997
• Pages: 40

Contents:

• “Archaeological Sources for the History of Palestine: The Iron Age II Period: Emerging Nations,” by Larry G. Herr
• “A Rejoinder to ‘Was the Siloam Tunnel Built by Hezekiah?’,” by Jane M. Cahill
• “Spirit Houses”
• “Smart Museum of Art to Host Special Exhibition of Sumerian Temple Treasures from the Oriental Institute Museum”
• “International Conference in Near Eastern Archaeology”
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology”
• Reviews

Biblical Archaeologist: 60.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1997
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “Ancient Moab: Still Largely Unknown,” by Max Miller
• “Roads and Settlements in Moab,” by J. Andrew Dearman
• “A New Agenda for Research on Ancient Moab,” by Gerald L. Mattingly
• “Moab’s Northern Border: Khirbat al-Mudayna on the Wadi ath-Thamad,” by P. M. Michèle Daviau
• “Egypt and Moab,” by Udo Worschech
• “Moabite Social Structure,” by Randall W. Younker
• “New Volute Capital Discovered,” by Joel F. Drinkard, Jr.
• “New Project: Tel Safi, Israel,” by Tammi J. Schneider
• “Excavations at Mudayna,” by P. M. Michèle Daviau
• “New Dolmen Field near ˓Iraq al-Amir, Jordan,” by Chang-ho C. Ji
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology,” by John Younger
• “In Appreciation: Jim Sauer,” by Lawrence T. Geraty
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 61.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1998
• Pages: 72

Contents:

• “King’s Command and Widow’s Plea: Two New Hebrew Ostraca of the Biblical Period,” by P. Bordreuil, F. Israel and D. Pardee
• “New Horizons in Ancient Syria: The View from ˒Atij,” by Michel Fortin
• “Uncovering the Maritime Secrets of Aperlae, a Coastal Settlement of Ancient Lycia,” by Robert L. Hohlfelder and Robert L. Vann
• “Archaeology, Ideology, and the Quest for an ‘Ancient’ or ‘Biblical Israel’,” by William G. Dever
• “Research Design in Archaeology: The Interdisciplinary Perspective,” by Baruch Halpern
• “Nuzi and the Hurrians: Fragments from a Forgotten Past: A Slice of Mesopotamian Life in the Fourteenth Century BCE,” by Joseph A. Greene
• “Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change,” by Eric H. Cline
• “Archaeology in Syria, 1997,” by Neathery Fuller
• Reviews
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology,” by John Younger

Near Eastern Archaeology: 61.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1998
• Pages: 55

Contents:

• “Archaeological Sources for the History of Palestine: Palestine in the Early Islamic Period: Luxuriant Legacy,” by Robert Schick
• “A Stone Metaphor of Creation,” by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
• “The Weight Standards of the Judean Coinage in the Late Persian and Early Ptolemaic Period,” by Yigal Ronen
• “Curse Tablets from Caesarea,” by Barbara Burrell
• “Recent Excavations in the Potters’ Quarter of Roman Sagalassos,” by Jeroen Poblome and Marc Waelkens
• “Hidden Treasures: The Glencairn Museum,” by Ed Gyllenhaal
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology,” by John Younger
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 61.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1998
• Pages: 48

Contents:

• “Archaeological Sources for the History of Palestine: The Frankish Period: A Unique Medieval Society Emerges,” by Adrian J. Boas
• “What’s in a Name? The Epipalaeolithic, the Aceramic and the Early Neolithic on the Territory of Sagalassos (Pisidia, Turkey),” by H. Vanhaverbeke, P. M. Vermeersch and M. Waelkens
• “Results of the CAARI International Conference, March 1998,” by Nancy Serwint
• “‘Crossing Borders: Ancient Egypt, Canaan and Israel’ Symposium,” by Joana Fisch
• “Survey of the Hinterland of Sinop, Turkey,” by O. Doonan
• “A Current Late Roman Site in Nea Paphos, Cyprus,” by Andrea H. Rowe
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology,” by John Younger
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 61.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1998
• Pages: 80

Contents:

• “The Neolithic Period: Triumphs of Architecture, Agriculture, and Art,” by E. B. Banning
• “From Plant Domestication to Phytolith Interpretation: The History of Paleoethnobotany in the Near East,” by Peter Warnock
• “An Early Church, Perhaps the Oldest in the World, Found at Aqaba,” by S. Thomas Parker
• “A Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Tomb at Sahem, Jordan,” by Peter M. Fischer
• “Hydraulic and Fishing Installations at Tel Tanninim,” by Robert R. Stieglitz
• “Indiana Zorn and the Web Site of Tell en-Naṣbeh,” by Jeffrey R. Zorn
• “Caught in the Net: Electronic Opportunities in Archaeology,” by John Younger
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 62.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1999
• Pages: 60

Contents:

• “Yarmuth: The Dawn of City-States in Southern Canaan,” by Pierre de Miroschedji
• “The Rock Art of the Negev Desert,” by Emmanuel Anati
• “State Formation in Israel and Judah: A Contrast in Context, a Contrast in Trajectory,” by Israel Finkelstein
• “Canaan and Ancient Israel Gallery Opens at the University of Pennsylvania Museum,” by Eric H. Cline
• “A Second Lead Figurine from Tel ˓Ein Zippori,” by Carol Meyers and J. P. Dessel
• “Rough Cilicia Regional Archaeological Survey Project,” by Nicholas K. Rauh
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 62.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1999
• Pages: 72

Contents:

• “Iron I: A Problem of Identity,” by Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish
• “A Landscape Comes to Life: The Iron Age I,” by Elizabeth Bloch-Smith and Beth Alpert Nakhai
• “The Egyptian Gallery of the Oriental Institute Museum Reopens,” by Emily Teeter
• “The Nabataean Cemetery at Khirbet Qazone,” by K. D. Politis
• “The Cypro-Minoan Corpus Project Takes an Archaeological Approach,” by Joanna S. Smith and Nicolle E. Hirschfeld
• “The Israel Museum Commemorates the 900th Anniversary of the First Crusade,” by Naama Brosh, Silvia Rozenberg and Hagit Allon
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 62.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1999
• Pages: 68

Contents:

• “An Empire’s New Holy Land: The Byzantine Period,” by S. Thomas Parker
• “Landscape and the Sacred: The Sanctuary Dedicated to Holy, Heavenly Zeus Baetocaece,” by Ann Irvine Steinsapir
• “Iron Production Center Found in the Jordan Valley,” by Xander Veldhuijzen and Eveline van der Steen
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 62.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 1999
• Pages: 46

Contents:

• “Militarization to Nomadization: The Middle and Late Islamic Periods,” by Bethany J. Walker
• “Animal Figures in the Basilical Building Mosaics at Roman Sepphoris, Lower Galilee, Israel,” by Arlene Fradkin
• “Graphic Visualization of Handaxes and Other Artifacts,” by Eric H. Cline
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 63.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2000
• Pages: 60

Contents:

• “Ethnoarchaeology and Interpretations of the Past,” by Gloria London
• “Qasrin and the Druze: A Cuisine-Based Model of Bone Distributions on Archaeological Sites,” by Billy J. Grantham
• “Ethnoarchaeology in Central Cyprus: Interdisciplinary Studies of Ancient Population and Agriculture by the Athienou Archaeological Project,” by Richard W. Yerkes
• “The Ethnoarchaeology of Adaptation on Arid Islands: A Study of Herders on Dokos, Greece,” by P. Nick Kardulias
• “Experimental Archaeology at Sha˒ar Hagolan: A Reconstruction of Neolithic Pottery Production in the Jordan Valley,” by Daphna Zuckerman
• “The Early Bronze Age Blade Workshop at Titriş Höyük: Lithic Specialization in an Urban Context,” by Britt Hartenberger, Steven Rosen, and Timothy Matney
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 63.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2000
• Pages: 54

Contents:

• “Alonia and Dhoukanes: The Ethnoarchaeology of Threshing in Cyprus,” by John C. Whittaker
• “Pots Crossing Borders: Ethnic Identity and Ceramics in Evros, Northeastern Greece,” by Olga Kalentzidou
• “From Village to Tell: Household Ethnoarchaeology in Syria,” by Kathryn Kamp
• “Pottery Production in the Troad: Ancient and Modern Akköy,” by Billur Tekkök-Biçken
• “Continuity and Change in Cypriot Pottery Production,” by Gloria London
• “The Early Iron Age in Central Anatolia in Light of Recent Research,” by Hermann Genz
• “A New Ostracon from Tell el-Far˒ah (South),” by Gunnar Lehman and Tammi J. Schneider
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 63.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2000
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “In Search of the Qumran Library,” by Mireille Bélis and Claude Grenache
• “The Great Battles over Qumran,” by Florentino García Martínez and Claude Grenache
• “Józef Tadeusz Milik: Memories of Fieldwork,” by Farah Mébarki and Claude Grenache
• “Daily Life at Qumran,” by Magen Broshi, Hanan Eshel and, Claude Grenache
• “Aqueducts, Basins, and Cisterns: The Water Systems at Qumran,” by Patricia Hidiroglou and Claude Grenache
• “Interpreting the Qumran Site,” by Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Claude Grenache
• “The Qumran Library,” by Farah Mébarki and Claude Grenache
• “The Search for Lost Texts,” by Annette Steudel and Claude Grenache
• “The Mysteries of the ‘Copper Scroll’,” by Émile Puech, Noël Lacoudre, Farah Mébarki and Claude Grenache
• “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism,” by Lawrence H. Schiffman
• “The Convictions of a Scholar: Interview with Émile Puech,” by Émile Puech, Farah Mébarki and Claude Grenache
• “Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” by James C. VanderKam
• “Are the Dead Sea Scrolls Christian?” by Erik W. Larson
• “The Temple Scrolls,” by Florentino García Martínez
• “Qumranology Then and Now,” by John Strugnell
• “Food for Thought: Saqqara Tomb 3477 Revisited,” by Al Leonard, Jr.

Near Eastern Archaeology: 63.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2000
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “1929–2001: Ugarit’s Secrets Revealed,” by Marguerite Yon
• “Ugarit: 6,000 Years of History,” by Marguerite Yon
• “An Efficiently Administered Kingdom,” by Pierre Bordreuil
• “A Trading City: Ugarit and the West,” by Marguerite Yon
• “Ugarit between Egypt and Hatti,” by Sylvie Lackenbacher
• “Commerce at Ugarit,” by Florence Malbran-Labat
• “The Art of Writing,” by Anne-Sophie Dalix
• “The South-Arabian Abecedary,” by Pierre Bordreuil
• “The Trilingual Vocabulary RS 94.2939,” by Béatrice André-Salvini and Mirjo Salvini
• “Scribes and Literature,” by Daniel Arnaud
• “Daily Life,” by Marguerite Yon
• “A Visit to a Home,” by Olivier Callot
• “A Stroll through the Palace,” by Jean-Claude Margueron
• “The Tombs,” by Sophie Marchegay
• “The House of Urtenu,” by Yves Calvet
• “The Lady of Ugarit,” by Ugarit at the Louvre Museum
• “The Art of Glass Working,” by Valérie Matoïan
• “The Art of Metal Working,” by Claude Chanut and Ella Dardaillon
• “At the Origins of the Bible,” by Ugaritic Literature and the Bible
• “Divinatory and Sacrificial Rites,” by Dennis Pardee
• “The Divinatory Livers,” by Jacqueline Gachet
• “Afterlife Beliefs: Memory as Immortality,” by Brian Schmidt
• “Annotated Bibliography of Recent Works on Ugarit”
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 64.1/2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2001
• Pages: 96

Contents:

• “Letters: More on Threshing Sledges,” by A. Biran
• “Down the Garden Path: How Plant and Animal Husbandry Came Together in the Ancient Near East,” by Naomi F. Miller
• “The Gilat Woman: Female Iconography, Chalcolithic Cult, and the End of Southern Levantine Prehistory,” by Alexander H. Joffe, J. P. Dessel, and Rachel S. Hallote
• “On Site Identifications Old and New: The Example of Tell el-Hesi,” by Jeffrey A. Blakely, and Fred L. Horton, Jr.
• “The Middle Paleolithic: Early Modern Humans and Neandertals in the Levant,” by John J. Shea
• “Excavations at a Byzantine Pilgrimage Site and Monastic Center: The Finnish Jabal Harûn Project 2000,” by Jaakko Frösén and Zbigniew T. Fiema
• “An Oracular Scene from the Pozo Moro Funerary Monument,” by Shawn O’Bryhim
• “On the Origins of Azraq’s ‘Roman Wall’,” by Richard P. Watson and G. W. Burnett
• “Satellite Images and Near Eastern Landscapes,” by Nicholas Kouchoukos
Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 64.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2001
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “Herod the Great Shows His True Colors,” by David M. Jacobson
• “Fractional Coins of Judea and Samaria in the Fourth Century BCE,” by Stephen N. Gerson
• “Syria: Land of Civilizations,” by J. Maxwell Miller
• “Lessons from the Kiln: Reduction Firing in Cypriot Iron Age Pottery,” by Nancy Reid Hocking
• “Stones for Bread: Archaeology versus History,” by Anson F. Rainey
• “Abandoned Tent Camps in Southern Jordan,” by Benjamin Adam Saidel
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 64.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2001
• Pages: number

Contents:

• “The Archaeology of Roman Palestine,” by Mark Alan Chancey and Adam Lowry Porter
• “Copper Smelting in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Excavations at Politiko Phorades,” by A. Bernard Knapp, Vasiliki Kassianidou and Michael Donnelly
• “Herod the Great Remains True to Form,” by Charles Sandy Brenner
• “An Inscribed Astragalus with a Dedication to Hermes,” by Guy Bar-Oz
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 65.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2002
• Pages: 88

Contents:

• “Statement on the Looting of Iraq’s National Museum,” by Richard L. Zettler
• “The House that Albright Built,” by Seymour Gitin
• “W. F. Albright & Assyriology,” by Paul-Alain Beaulieu
• “Ugaritic Studies and Israelite Religion: A Retrospective View,” by Mark S. Smith
• “Traveling the Ways of Horus: Studying the Links between Egypt and the Levant,” by Carolyn Higginbotham
• “W. F. Albright and Early Alphabetic Epigraphy,” by Gordon J. Hamilton
• “Reading between the Lines: W. F. Albright ‘In’ the Field and ‘On’ the Field,” by J. P. Dessel
• “W. F. Albright and the History of Pottery in Palestine,” by Larry G. Herr
• “Clarence Stanley Fisher (1876–1941)”
• “W. F. Albright and the Origins of Israel,” by J. David Schloen
• “W. F. Albright’s Vision of Israelite Religion,” by J. Edward Wright
• “From the Hills of Adonis through the Pillars of Hercules: Recent Advances in the Archaeology of Canaan and Phoenicia,” by Aaron Brody
• “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Retrospective and Prospective,” by Sidnie White Crawford
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 65.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2002
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “Mortuary Practices in Early Bronze Age Canaan,” by David Ilan
• “Real and Ideal Identities in Middle Bronze Age Tombs,” by Rachel S. Hallote
• “Foreign Burials in Late Bronze Age Palestine,” by Garth Gilmour
• “Life in Judah from the Perspective of the Dead,” by Elizabeth Bloch-Smith
• “Mortuary Practices in the Persian Period of the Levant,” by Samuel R. Wolff
• “Power and Its Afterlife: Tombs in Hellenistic Palestine,” by Andrea M. Berlin
• “Why Are Ground Stone Tools Found in Middle and Late Bronze Age Burials?” by Jennie R. Ebeling
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 65.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2002
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “From Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean,” by Theodore J. Lewis
• “Communities in Conflict: Death and the Contest for Social Order in the Euphrates River Valley,” by Anne Porter
• “Ethics and Archaeology: The Attempt at Çatalhöyük,” by Ian Hodder
• “The Trojan War: Is There Truth behind the Legend?,” by Trevor R. Bryce
• “Petrographic Investigation of the Amarna Tablets,” by Yuval Goren, Israel Finkelstein, and Nadav Na’aman
• “Hidden Treasure from the Royal Cemetery at Ur: Technology Sheds New Light on the Ancient Near East,” by Alexandra Irving and Janet Ambers
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 65.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2002
• Pages: 72

Contents:

• “Ancient and Modern Watershed Management in Petra,” by Talal S. Akasheh
• “Desert Oasis: Water Consumption and Display in the Nabataean Capital,” by Leigh-Ann Bedal
• “The Petra Great Temple: A Nabataean Architectural Miracle,” by Martha Sharp Joukowsky
• “A Dedicatory Inscription to the Emperor Trajan from the Small Temple at Petra, Jordan,” by John Bodel and Sara Karz Reid
• “A New Plan of Petra’s City Center,” by Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos
• “Two Visual Languages at Petra: Aniconic and Representational Sculpture of the Great Temple,” by Joseph J. Basile
• Petra Glossary
• “Excavating a Nabataean Mansion,” by Bernhard Kolb
• “Life and Death in Nabataea: The North Ridge Tombs and Nabataean Burial Practices,” by Megan A. Perry
• “The Churches of Byzantine Petra,” by Patricia Maynor Bikai
• “Petra Papyri,” by Marjo Lehtinen
• “A Palestinian Organization Works to Preserve Sites in the West Bank in the Midst of War,” by Adel Yahya
• “5,000-Year-Old Burials Discovered in Jordan,” by Larry G. Herr
• “Scholars Build Internet Dictionary to Unravel Sumerian Language,” by Kyle Cassidy
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 66.1/2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 80

Contents:

• “Housing Neolithic Farmers,” by E. B. Banning
• “The Four Room House: Embodying Iron Age Israelite Society,” by Avraham Faust and Shlomo Bunimovitz
• “Bricks, Sweat and Tears: The Human Investment in Constructing a ‘Four-Room’ House,” by Douglas R. Clark
• “Domestic Architecture in Roman and Byzantine Galilee and Golan,” by Katharina Galor
• “A "Talmudic" House at Qasrin: On the Use of Domestic Space and Daily Life during the Byzantine Period,” by Ann E. Killebrew, Billy J. Grantham, and Steven Fine
• “Ancient Weavers at Iron Age Mudaybi˓,” by John M. Wade and Gerald L. Mattingly
• “Reconsidering the Neolithic at Toll-e Bashi (Iran),” by Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock, and Kamyar Abdi
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 66.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 53

Contents:

• “Avner Raban (1937–2004): An Appreciation,” by Kenneth G. Holum
• “The Earliest Dancing Scenes in the Near East,” by Yosef Garfinkel
• “Dance in Ancient Mesopotamia,” by Dominique Collon
• “Dance in Textual Sources from Ancient Mesopotamia,” by Uri Gabbay
• “Dancers in the Louvre: The Iranian and Cypriot Collections,” by Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi
• “Dance in Ancient Egypt,” by Patricia Spencer
• “Phoenician Dance,” by Jonathan N. Tubb
• “Ritual Dancing in the Iron Age,” by Amihai Mazar
• “The Dancer from Dan,” by Avraham Biran
• “Dance and Gender in Ancient Jewish Sources,” by Tal Ilan
• “Dance in Ninth Century Java: A Methodology for the Analysis and Reconstitution of the Dance,” by Alessandra Lopez y Royo
• “Excavating a Neolithic Peace at Dhra˓ (Jordan),” by Matthew Ziegler
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 66.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 54

Contents:

• “Abandonment, Urbanization, Resettlement and the Formation of the Israelite State,” by Avraham Faust
• “The Challenges of Ketef Hinnom: Using Advanced Technologies to Reclaim the Earliest Biblical Texts and Their Context,” by Gabriel Barkay, Marilyn J. Lundberg, Andrew G. Vaughn, Bruce Zuckerman, and Kenneth Zuckerman
• “Digging up Deborah: Recent Hebrew Bible Scholarship on Gender and the Contribution of Archaeology,” by Susan Ackerman
• “Engendering Syro-Palestinian Archaeology: Reasons and Resources,” by Carol Meyers
• “Cultural Interaction through the Ages: The Ninth International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan,” by May Shaer and Burton MacDonald
• “Cultural Interaction through the Ages: An Internet Bibliography of Archaeological Excavations in the Southern Levant,” by Wade Kotter

Near Eastern Archaeology: 67.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 60

Contents:

• “The Jewish Temple at Elephantine,” by Stephen G. Rosenberg
• “A Nabatean/Roman Temple at Dhat Ras, Jordan,” by Terry W. Eddinger
• “Commemorating the Sacred Spaces of the Past: The Mamluks and the Umayyad Mosque at Damascus,” by Bethany J. Walker
• “The Unique Church at Abila of the Decapolis,” by Clarence Menninga
• “A Late Bronze Age Cultic Installation at Tall al-Umayri, Jordan,” by Kent Bramlett
• “New Mesopotamian Gallery at the Oriental Institute,” by Oriental Institute Museum Staff
• “A Channel to the Underworld in Syria,” by Billie Jean Collins
• “Special Report: Afghan Archaeology on the Road to Recovery,” by John W. Betlyon
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 67.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 62

Contents:

• “Viewing Our past through a Culinary Prism,” by Albert Leonard, Jr.
• “Understanding Domestic Space: An Example from Iron Age Tel Halif,” by James W. Hardin
• “Beer and Its Drinkers: An Ancient near Eastern Love Story,” by Michael M. Homan
• “Eat, Drink and Be Merry: The Mediterranean Diet,” by Oded Borowski
• “The Archaeology of the Daily Grind: Ground Stone Tools and Food Production in the Southern Levant,” by Jennie R. Ebeling and Yorke M. Rowan
• “Including Women and Children: Neolithic Modeled Skulls from Jordan, Israel, Syria and Turkey,” by Michelle Bonogofsky
• “Deipnosophists in the Desert,” by Albert Leonard, Jr.
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology:67.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 54

Contents:

• “‘Who’s the Man?’ Sex and Gender in Iron Age Musical Performance,” by Theodore W. Burgh
• “Lie Back and Think of Judah: The Reproductive Politics of Pillar Figurines,” by Ryan Byrne
• “Private Lives and Public Censure: Adultery in Ancient Egypt and Biblical Israel,” by Pnina Galpaz-Feller
• “They Also Dug! Archaeoiogist’s Wives and Their Stories,” by Norma Dever
• “Clay Lamps Shed New Light on Daily Life in Antiquity,” by Eric C. Lapp
• “Introducing Archaeology in Words and Pictures: Does ‘Archaelogy: The Comic’ Deliver?,” by Jeff Blakely
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 67.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 53

Contents:

• “Caesarea’s Temple Hill: The Archaeology of Sacred Space in an Ancient Mediterranean City,” by Kenneth G. Holum
• “Landscapes of Terror and Control: Imperial Impacts in Paphlagonia,” by Roger Matthews
• “New Uses for Old Laboratory Techniques,” by Jason A. Rech
• “Roman and Umayyad Settlements on the Karak Plateau: Using Technology to Determine Site Location Factors on a Regional Scale,” by Mark D. Green
• “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,” by Willeke Wendrich
• “Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur: A Traveling Exhibition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,” by Shannon White
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 68.1/2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2005
• Pages: 80

Contents:

• “A People Transformed Palestine in the Persian Period,” by John W. Betlyon
• “A Hippopotamus Tooth from a Philistine Temple: Symbolic Artifact or Sacrificial Offering?” by Edward F. Maher
• “The Antiquities Market, Sensationalized Textual Data, and Modern Forgeries,” by Andrew G. Vaughn and Christopher A. Rollston
• Suspected Fakes (And Their Alleged Forgers)
• “Navigating the Epigraphic Storm: A Palaeographer Reflects on Inscriptions from the Market,” by Christopher A. Rollston
• “The Forgery Indictments and BAR: Learning from Hindsight,” by Edward M. Cook
• “The Public Display of Forgeries: A Desideratum for Museums and Collections,” by Christopher A. Rollston and Heather Dana Davis Parker
• “The Editor of ‘BAR’ Responds,” by Hershel Shanks
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 68.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2005
• Pages: 61

Contents:

• “Eight Thousand Years of History in Fars Province, Iran,” by D. T. Potts, K. Roustaei, K. Alamdari, K. Alizadeh, A. Asgari Chaverdi, A. Khosrowzadeh, L. Niakan, C. A. Petrie, M. Seyedin, L. R. Weeks, B. McCall, and M. Zaidi
• “Life in a Fifth-Millennium BCE Village: Excavations at Rahmatabad, Iran,” by Reinhard Bernbeck, Hassan Fazeli and, Susan Pollock
• “Economy, Environment and the Beginnings of Civilization in Southeastern Iran,” by Mehdi Mortazavi
• Outline of Iranian History
• “Elamite Funerary Clay Heads,” by Javier Alvarez-Mon
• “The Politics of Parthian Coinage in Media,” by Farhang Khademi Nadooshan, Seyed Sadrudin Moosavi, and Frouzandeh Jafarzadeh Pour
• “No Longer Forgotten, Ancient Persia Comes to the British Museum,” by Jack Green
• “Coinage, War, and Peace in Fourth-Century Yehud,” by Bradley W. Root
• Visiting Archaeological Sites in Iran
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 68.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2005
• Pages: 61

Contents:

• “The Tomb of Absalom Reconsidered,” by Joe Zias and Émile Puech
• “‘A Record of Discovery and Adventure’ Claude Reignier Conder’s Contributions to the Exploration of Palestine,” by David Jacobson and Felicity Cobbing
• “Pathways, Roadways, and Highways: Networks of Communication and Exchange in Wadi Araba,” by Andrew M. Smith, II
• “Deuteronomy in Dixie: Mobile’s Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center Brings the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Bible Belt,” by Gabriele Fassbeck
• “The Revival of Prehistoric Field Research in Lebanon: The Qadisha Valley Prehistory Project,” by Andrew Garrard and Corine Yazbeck
• “[De]formation of the Israelite State: A Rejoinder on Methodology,” by Israel Finkelstein
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 69.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2006
• Pages: 48

Contents:

• “Tells, Empires, and Civilizations: Investigating Historical Landscapes in the Ancient near East,” by Øystein S. LaBianca
• “Mapping the Past: An Archaeogeophysical Case Study from Southeastern Turkey,” by Timothy Matney and Ann Donkin
• “Tribes and Power Structures in Palestine and the Transjordan,” by Eveline J. van der Steen
• “A New Incised Scapula from Tel Kinrot,” by Nimrod Marom, Guy Bar-Oz and Stefan Münger
• “Capturing a Beautiful Woman at Masada,” by Joseph Zias and Azriel Gorski
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 69.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2006
• Pages: 62

Contents:

• “The Pleistocene Peopling of Anatolia: Evidence from Kaletepe Deresi,” by Ludovic Slimak, Damase Mouralis, Nur Balkan-Ath, Didier Binder, and Steven L. Kuhn
• “Late Acheulian Variability in the Southern Levant: A Contrast of the Western and Eastern Margins of the Levantine Corridor,” by Gary O. Rollefson, Leslie A. Quintero and Philip J. Wilke
• “Human Evolution at the Crossroads: An Archaeological Survey in Northwest Jordan,” by Michael S. Bisson, April Nowell, Carlos Cordova, Regina Kalchgruber, and Maysoon al-Nahar
• “Shelter or Hunting Camp? Accounting for the Presence of a Deeply Stratified Cave Site in the Syrian Steppe,” by Bruce Schroeder
• “The Destruction of Palestinian Archaeological Heritage: Saffa Village as a Model,” by Salah H. al-Houdalieh
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 69.3/4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2006
• Pages: 77

Contents:

• “The Jesus Tomb Controversy: An Overview,” by Eric M. Meyers
• “Is the Talpiot Tomb Really the Family Tomb of Jesus?” by Shimon Gibson
• “Trial by Statistics,” by Sandra Scham
• “Inscribed Ossuaries: Personal Names, Statistics, and Laboratory Tests,” by Christopher A. Rollston
• “Mary Magdalene Has Left the Room: A Suggested New Reading of Ossuary CJO 701,” by Stephen J. Pfann
• “Testing a Hypothesis,” by James D. Tabor
• “The Ottoman Qasr at Hisban: Architecture, Reform, and New Social Relations,” by Lynda Carroll, Adam Fenner, and Øystein S. LaBianca
• “Cult Stands of the Philistines A Genizah from Yavneh,” by Raz Kletter, Irit Ziffer, and Wolfgang Zwickel
• “The Lower Paleolithic Occupation of Iran,” by Fereidoun Biglari and Sonia Shidrang
• “Working Bones: A Unique Iron Age IIA Bone Workshop from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath,” by Liora Kolska Horwitz, Justin Lev-Tov, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Stefan J. Wimmer, and Aren M. Maeir
• “Heroes, Mummies, and Treasure: Near Eastern Archaeology in the Movies,” by Kevin McGeough
• “The Reopened Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul,” by Sandra Scham
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 70.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “Rural Settlements, State Formation, and ‘Bible and Archaeology’,” by Avraham Faust
• “Two Archaeologies,” by Neil Asher Silberman
• “What Historians Would like to Know. . .” by Lester L. Grabbe
• “On the Case of Faust versus Finkelstein, from a Friend of the Court,” by Alex Joffe
• “State Formation and the Iron Age I-Iron Age IIA Transition: Remarks on the Faust-Finkelstein Debate,” by Ze’ev Herzog
• “A Rejoinder,” by Avraham Faust
• “Photography and the American Contribution to Early ‘Biblical’ Archaeology, 1870-1920,” by Rachel Hallote
• “Throne Villages of the Highlands: Local Nobility and Their Mansions in Ottoman Palestine,” by Kamal Abdulfattah
• “A Rare Kernos Variant from Tell el-Hesi,” by Andrea Bignasca
• “The North Mesopotamian Neighborhood: Domestic Activities and Household Space at Titriş Höyük,” by Yoko Nishimura
• “Commentary on the New Incised Scapula from Tel Kinrot,” by Richard J. Dumbrill
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 70.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 53

Contents:

• “Reading Northwest Semitic Inscriptions,” by Aaron Demsky
• “The Harbor of Atlit in Northern Canaanite/Phoenician Context,” by Arad Haggi and Michal Artzy
• “Sussita-Hippos of the Decapolis: Town Planning and Architecture of a Roman-Byzantine City,” by Arthur Segal and Michael Eisenberg
• “Mind the Gap: Continuity and Change in Iranian Sistan Archaeology,” by Mehdi Mortazavi
• “‘Crossing Jordan’ in Washington, D.C.: The Tenth International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan,” by Douglas R. Clark and Barbara A. Porter
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 70.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 59

Contents:

• “From Standing Stones to Open Mosques in the Negev Desert: The Archaeology of Religious Transformation on the Fringes,” by Gideon Avni
• “Some of What’s New in Old Aramaic Epigraphy,” by K. Lawson Younger, Jr.
• “Tall Ziraʿa. Five Thousand Years of Palestinian History on a Single-Settlement Mound,” by Dieter Viewegerta and Jutta Häser
• “Picturing Ancient Nabada,” by Joachim Bretschneider
• “An Historian’s View of the Gospel of Judas,” by David Frankfurter
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 70.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 45

Contents:

• “An Open Context for Near Eastern Archaeology,” by Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Eric C. Kansa and Jason M. Schultz
• “Full Disclosure Matters,” by Jane M. Cahill and James A. Passamano
• “Think Small!” by Mitch Allen
• “Sharing Archaeological Data: The Distributed Archive Method,” by Paul Jacobs and Christopher Holland
• “It Is the Land of Honey: Beekeeping at Tel Reḥov,” by Amihai Mazar and Nava Panitz-Cohen
• “Et-Tell Is Not Bethsaida,” by R. Steven Notley
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 71.1/2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 141

Contents:

• “‘Welcome, Sir, to Cyprus’: The Local Reaction to American Archaeological Research,” by Despina Pilides
• “What’s in a Name? CAARI at Thirty,” by Thomas W. Davis
• “American Researchers and the Earliest Cypriots,” by Alan H. Simmons
• “Bringing Old Excavations to Life,” by Joanna S. Smith
• “Of Cows, Copper, Corners, and Cult: The Emergence of the Cypriot Bronze Age,” by Stuart Swiny
• “The History of History: Excavations at Idalion and the Changing History of a City-Kingdom,” by Pamela Gaber
• “Polis Chrysochous: Princeton University’s Excavations of Ancient Marion and Arsinoe,” by William A. P. Childs
• “The Kyrenia Ship: Her Recent Journey,” by Susan Katzev
• “Surveying Late Antique Cyprus,” by William Caraher, R. Scott Moore, and David Pettegrew
• “From Polis to Pasture: Exploring the Cypriot Countryside of Late Antiquity,” by Marcus Rautman
• “Dumbarton Oaks and the Legacy of Byzantine Cyprus,” by Annemarie Weyl Carr
• “‘Twixt Cross and Crescent’: Caari and the Cultural History of Crusader and Islamic Cyprus,” by Bethany J. Walker
• “Short Skulls, Long Skulls, and Thalassemia: J. Lawrence Angel and the Development of Cypriot Anthropology,” by Nathan K. Harper
• “How and Why Potmarks Matter,” by Nicolle Hirschfeld
• “American Archaeologists in Cypriot Waters: One Nation’s Contributions to the Underwater Exploration of Cyprus’ Past,” by John R. Leonard
• “American Archaeological Expeditions on Cyprus,” by Despina Pilides

Near Eastern Archaeology: 71.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 47

Contents:

• “Between the Carmel and the Sea: Tel Dor’s Iron Age Reconsidered,” by Ayelet Gilboa and Ilan Sharon
• “Contributions from Zooarchaeological Analyses,” by Noa Raban-Gerstel
• “Sediment Analysis and the Identification of Phytolith Layers,” by Ruth Shahack-Gross
• “Computerized Ceramic Typology,” by Avshalom Karasik and Uzy Smilansky
• “Identifying an Iron Smithy at Assyrian Dor through Its Waste Deposits,” by Adi Eliyahu Behar
• “TV and the near Eastern Archaeologist,” by Eric H. Cline
• “Still Not Ready for Primetime,” by Neil Asher Silberman
• “TV Archaeology Is Valuable Storytelling,” by Cornelius Holtorf and Eric H. Cline
• “Archaeology and the Media: A Review,” by Ann E. Killebrew
• “Babylon: Myth and Truth, an Exhibit at the Pergamon Museum,” by Paul Delnero
• “Shuqayra Al-Gharbiyya: A New Early Islamic Compound in Central Jordan,” by Younis M. Shdaifat and Zakariya N. Ben Badhann

Near Eastern Archaeology: 71.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 61

Contents:

• “Tell Abu al-Kharaz: A Bead in the Jordan Valley,” by Peter M. Fischer
• “The Archaeology of Warfare: Local Chiefdoms and Settlement Systems in the Jenin Region during the Ottoman Period of Palestine,” by Hamed Salem
• “Protecting and Recording our Archaeological Heritage in Southern Iraq,” by Abdulamir al Hamdani
• “A Focus on the Demand Side of the Antiquities Equation,” by Morag M. Kersel
• “Art and Empire at the Museum of Fine Arts,” by Jack Cheng
• “Reading Moabite Pigments with Laser Ablation ICP-MS: A New Archaeometric Technique for Near Eastern Archaeology,” by Benjamin W. Porter and Robert J. Speakman
• Historical Geographer of the Holy Land: Anson Rainey and His Career with the Landscapes of the Past
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 72.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2009
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “Apollonia-Arsuf between Past and Future,” by Katharina Galor, Israel Roll, Oren Tal, Donald H. Sanders, Andrew R. Willis, and David B. Cooper
• “An Argument for Archaeological Reconstruction in Virtual Reality,” by Robert R. Cargill
• “The Qumran Digital Model: A Response,” by Jodi Magness
• “A Response to Cargill,” by Jodi Magness
• “Acrobats, Bulls, and Leaping Scenes on New Alalakh Amphoroid Kraters,” by K. Aslihan Yener
• “Beyond Baylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.E.: An Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,” by Allison Karmel Thomason
• “Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples. An Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.,” by Elise A. Friedland
• “Maresha Inscriptions Provide Context for a Royal Stele in the Israel Museum,” by Ian Stern
• “News from Jabal Haroun,” by Jaakko Frösén and Zbigniew T. Fiema

Near Eastern Archaeology: 72.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2009
• Pages: 48

Contents:

• “From the Stone Age to the Middle Ages in Jordan: Digging up Tall al-‘Umayri,” by Larry G. Herr, Douglas R. Clark and Kent Bramlett
• “New Iron Age Copper-Mine Fields Discovered in Southern Jordan,” by Erez Ben-Yosef, Thomas E. Levy and Mohammad Najjar
• “Whose Tail Did Nefermaat’s Hunting Dog Bite? Or, How Can Ancient Art Contribute to Biogeography and Paleoclimatology?,” by Nicolas Manlius
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 72.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2009
• Pages: 48

Contents:

• “The Archaeology of Border Communities: Renewed Excavations at Tel Beth-Shemesh, Part 1: The Iron Age,” by Shlomo Bunimovitz, Zvi Lederman, and Dale W. Manor
• “The Fertile Goddess at the Brooklyn Museum of Art: Excavating the Western Feminist Art Movement and Recontextualizing New Heritages,” by Uzma Z. Rizvi and Murtaza Vali
• “The Life of Meresamun, A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt: An Exhibition at the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago,” by Jean Li
• “A Monumental Task Dedicated to Ancient Monuments: The Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae,” by Gabriele Fassbeck
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 72.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2009
• Pages: 62

Contents:

• “Cilicia, The Amuq, and Aleppo: New Light in a Dark Age,” by J. David Hawkins
• “Neo-Hittites in the ‘Land of Palistin’: Renewed Investigation at Tell Taʿyinat on the Plain of Antioch,” by
• “The Temple of the Storm God in Aleppo during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages,” by Kay Kohlmeyer
• “Searching for Ancient Samʾal: New Excavations at Zincirli in Turkey,” by J. David Schloen and Amir S. Fink
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 73.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “Egyptians in Jaffa: A Portrait of Egyptian Presence in Jaffa during the Late Bronze Age,” by Aaron A. Burke, Krystal V. Lords, Martin Peilstöcker, Kyle H. Keimer, and George A. Pierce
• “Jordan’s Stonehenge: The Endangered Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age Site at al-Murayghât—Hajr al-Mansûb,” by Stephen H. Savage
• “Testing the Function of Early Bronze Age I Dolmens: A GIS Investigation,” by Abdulla Al-Shorman
• “The Great Revolt in the Galilee,” by Camilla Luckey
• “The New Acropolis Museum: Where the Visual Feast Trumps Education,” by Katie Rask
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 73.2/3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 144

Contents:

• “The Archaeological Heritage of Lebanon,” by Jeanine Abdul Massih
• “The Necropolis and Dwellings of Byblos during the Chalcolithic Period New Interpretations,” by Gassia Artin
• “Tell Arqa: A Prosperous City during the Bronze Age,” by Jean-Paul Thalmann
• “Recent Excavations at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida,” by Hermann Genz
• “Sidon during the Bronze Age: Burials, Rituals and Feasting Grounds at the ‘College Site’,” by Claude Doumet-Serhal
• “Tell el-Burak: A New Middle Bronze Age Site from Lebanon,” by Hélène Sader and Jens Kamlah
• “The Phoenician Cemetery of Tyre,” by María Eugenia Aubet
• “An Unexpected Archaeological Treasure: The Phoenician Quarters in Beirut City Center,” by Josette Elayi
• “The State of Underwater Archaeology in Lebanon,” by Zeina Haddad
• “New Light on the Phoenician Harbor at Tyre,” by Ibrahim Noureddine
• “The Beirut National Museum and Collective Memory: Sanctuary, Repository, or Interactive Space?” by Suzy Hakimian
• “Private Archaeological Museums in Lebanon,” by Leila Badre
• “Challenging Colonialism and Nationalism in Lebanese Archaeological Museums,” by Lina G. Tahan
• “Postcolonial, Neo-imperial, or a Little Bit of Both? Reflections on Museums in Lebanon,” by Neil Asher Silberman
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 73.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 46

Contents:

• “Ajlan: Locating the Estate of Amr b. al-As,” by Jeffrey A. Blakely
• “Gender Transformation in Death: A Case Study of Coffins from Ramesside Period Egypt,” by Kathlyn M. Cooney
• “The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani: J. Paul Getty Museum, at the Getty Villa July 16-October 5, 2009,” by Christine M. Thompson
• “Out on the Tiles: Animal Footprints from the Roman Site of Kefar ‘Othnay (Legio), Israel,” by Guy Bar-Oz and Yotam Tepper
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 74.1

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “Palace and Village, Paradise and Oblivion: Unraveling the Riddles of Ramat Raḥel,” by Oded Lipschits, Yuval Gadot, Benjamin Arubas, and Manfred Oeming
• “The Iron Age Chronology Debate: Is the Gap Narrowing?” by Israel Finkelstein and Eli Piasetzky
• “Tabular Scrapers: Function Revisited,” by Theresa M. Barket and Colleen A. Bell
• “Homicide at Aktopraklık, A Prehistoric Village in Turkey,” by Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 74.2

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 64

Contents:

• “Kinneret—An Urban Center at the Crossroads: Excavations on Iron IB Tel Kinrot at the Lake of Galilee,” by Stefan Münger, Jürgen Zangenberg, and Juha Pakkala
• “Bethsaida—A Response to Steven Notley,” by Rami Arav
• “Response to Notley’s Comments,” by John F. Shroder Jr.
• “Reply to Arav,” by R. Steven Notley
• “A Response to Notley’s Reply,” by Rami Arav
• “The Iron Age Chronology Debate: Is the Gap Narrowing? Another Viewpoint,” by Amihai Mazar
• “Talk from the Balk: New Discoveries from ASOR-Affiliated Projects,” by Ann E. Killebrew
• “A New Anatolian Hieroglyphic Seal Impression from Dağılbaz Höyük, Bay of İskenderun, Turkey,” by Lorenzo d’Alfonso and Ann E. Killebrew
• “A Latin Graffito on a Recently Discovered Eastern Sigillata A Sherd from Dalbaz Höyük, Bay of İskenderun, Turkey,” by Brandon R. Olson and Ann E. Killebrew
• “In Search of Biblical Lands: From Jerusalem to Jordan in Nineteenth-Century Photography,” by Hans Barnard
• “The Ancient Near East Gallery at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,” by Garth Gilmour

Near Eastern Archaeology: 74.3

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 60

Contents:

• “Between Carmel and the Sea—Tel Dor: The Late Periods,” by Jessica L. Nitschke, S. Rebecca Martin, and Yiftah Shalev
• “Before Albright: Charles Torrey, James Montgomery, and American Biblical Archaeology 1907–1922,” by Rachel Hallote
• “From Mountain to Icon: Mount Gerizim on Roman Provincial Coins from Neapolis, Samaria,” by Jane DeRose Evans
• Reviews

Near Eastern Archaeology: 74.4

• Publisher: American Schools of Oriental Research
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 61

Contents:

• “The Peqi‘in Cave: A Chalcolithic Cemetery in Upper Galilee, Israel,” by Zvi Gal, Dina Shalem, and Howard Smithline
• “Mass Hunting Game Traps in the Southern Levant: The Negev and Arabah ‘Desert Kites’,” by Guy Bar-Oz, Dani Nadel, Uzi Avner, and Dan Malkinson
• “A Ceremonial Center for the Living and the Dead,” by Gloria London
• “Remnants of Çanakkale Glazed Ware Production: A Long Tradition of Glazing in the Troad Region,” by Billur Tekkök
• “Ship Graffiti in Burial Cave 557 at Maresha,” by Elie Haddad and Michal Artzy
• “Partners in Purity: Second Temple Olive Presses and Scapulae Scoops,” by Liora Kolska Horwitz
• “Dura Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity and Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos,” by Steven Fine
• Reviews

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The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) is a non-profit organization that supports and encourages the study of the cultures and history of the Near East from the earliest times to the present. ASOR was founded in 1900 by 21 institutions—including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Columbia. ASOR now has over 90 consortium institutions. ASOR fosters original research, archaeological excavations, and explorations; encourages scholarship in the Near East’s basic languages, cultural histories, and traditions; builds support for Near Eastern studies; and advocates high academic standards. ASOR communicates news of the latest research, findings through magazine publications, including the Bulletin of ASOR and Near Eastern Archaeology.