Table of contents:

Sidnie White Crawford
Introduction and Appreciation……………………………………………………… xi

Ernest S. Frerichs
Sy Gitin: A Tribute…………………………………………………………………. xvi

Bibliography of Seymour Gitin……………………………………....…………….. xx

Part I: Tel Miqne-Ekron and Philistia

Trude Dothan and David Ben-Shlomo
Ceramic Pomegranates and Their Relationship to Iron Age Cult.……………..........…… 3

Yosef Garfinkel
The Dynamic Settlement History of Philistine Ekron:
A Case Study of Central Place Theory………………………………………….......... 17

Barry M. Gittlen
Sailing Up to Ekron: A Nautical Seal from Tel Miqne-Ekron………………… 25

Aren M. Maeir and Joe Uziel
A Tale of Two Tells: A Comparative Perspective on Tel Miqne-Ekron
and Tell es-Sβfi/Gath in Light of Recent Archaeological Research…………………. 29

Orit Shamir
Loomweights and Textile Production at Tel Miqne-Ekron:
A Preliminary Report…………………………………………………………………. 43

Lawrence E. Stager and Penelope A. Mountjoy
A Pictorial Krater from Philistine Ashkelon……………………………………………. 50

Jane C. Waldbaum
A Wild Goat Oinochoe Sherd from Tel Miqne-Ekron…………………………………. 61

Part II: The Archaeology of the Southern Levant
from the Late Bronze Age through the Roman Period

Oded Borowski
Burial Customs in Southern Judah: The Case of Tel Halif……………………………. 71

William G. Dever
Archaeology and the Fall of the Northern Kingdom:
What Really
Happened?.......................................................................\
............................ 78

David Eitam
The Stone Tools from Khirbet 'Aujah el-Foqa………………………………………… 93

Israel Finkelstein
Iron Age I Khirbet et-Tell and Khirbet Raddana:
Methodological Lessons……………………………………………………………..... 107

Volkmar Fritz
On the Reconstruction of the Four-Room House……………………………………... 114

Zvi Gal, Dina Shalem, and Moshe Hartal
An Iron Age Site at Karmiel, Lower Galilee
(with an appendix by Anat
Cohen-Weinberger).............................................................
119

Larry G. Herr
The Late Iron Age I Ceramic Assemblage from Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan……………. 135

Paul F. Jacobs and Joe D. Seger
Glimpses of the Iron Age I at Tel Halif……………………………………………… 146

Ann E. Killebrew
The Canaanite Storage Jar Revisited………………………………………………….. 166

Raz Kletter
To Cast an Image: Masks from Iron Age Judah and the Biblical Masekah………… 189

Amos Kloner and Yehiel Zelinger
The Evolution of Tombs from the Iron Age
through the Second Temple Period……………………………………………………. 209

Nancy L. Lapp
Some Early Persian Period Pottery from Tell Balβtah………………………………………. 221

Jodi Magness
Why
Ossuaries?......................................................................\
........................................ 228

Eric M. Meyers
Jewish Art in the Greco-Roman Period: Were the Hasmonean
and Herodian Eras
Aniconic?.......................................................................\
..... 240

Ephraim Stern
A Gorgon's Head and the Earliest Greek Temples at Dor
and on the Coasts of Phoenicia and Palestine…………………………………………. 249

Ron E. Tappy
The Final Years of Israelite Samaria: Toward a Dialogue between
Texts and Archaeology……………………………………………………… 258

Jonathan N. Tubb
The Sixth Century BC Horizon at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh in Jordan……………………….. 280

Pιter Vargyas
Fakes before Coins?: On the Gold and Silver Hoards
from Level V at Beth-Shean…………………………………………………………... 295

Samuel Wolff
Stone Pedestaled Bowls from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages
in the Levant…………………………………………………………………………... 305

Sharon Zuckerman
Late Bronze Age Scoops: Context and Function……………………………………… 313

Part III: Biblical, Epigraphic, and Philological Studies

Aaron Demsky
Šmn Rhs-Bath Oil from Samaria………………………………………………….. 333

Baruch Halpern
The False Torah of Jeremiah 8 in the Context of Seventh Century BCE
Pseudepigraphy: The First Documented Rejection of Tradition……………………… 337

Victor Avigdor Hurowitz
The Biblical Arms Bearer (???? ????)………………………………………………… 344

Philip J. King
David Defeats Goliath…………………………………………………………………. 350

Baruch A. Levine
The Cultic Scene in Biblical Religion:
Hebrew 'al panβi (?? ???) and the Ban on Divine Images…………………………...... 358

Nadav Na'aman
The Opening Biblical Verses on the Kings of Judah and Israel:
Sources and Editing…………………………………………………………………… 370

Mark S. Smith
Counting Calves at Bethel…………………………………………………………….. 382

John R. Spencer
Ostraca and Other Epigraphic Material from Tell el-Hesi…………………………….. 395

Part IV: Historical Geography and Demography

Piotr Bienkowski
Landscape, Identity, and Reciprocal Relations:
The Wadi Arabah as Relationship and Discourse…………………………………… 407

Zeev Meshel
Defining the Biblical 'Arabah………………………………………………………… 423

Ziony Zevit
Text Traditions, Archaeology, and Anthropology: Uncertainties in
Determining the Populations of Judah and Yehud
from ca. 734 to ca. 400 BCE…………………………………………………………... 436

Part V: The Mediterranean Horizon

Marνa Eugenia Aubet
East Greek and Etruscan Pottery in a Phoenician Context………………………… 447

Maria Iacovou
Advocating Cyprocentricism: An Indigenous Model for
the Emergence of State Formation on Cyprus………………………………………… 461

Vassos Karageorghis
"Snake Charmers" from Cyprus………………………………………………………. 476

Robert S. Merrillees
Not Quite "Stoned in the Stone Age":
A Unique White Slip I "Opium" Juglet from Cyprus…………………………………. 484

Part VI: Varia

Patty Gerstenblith
Nineveh as a Microcosm of the Effect of War on Iraq's Cultural Heritage………… 491

Carol Meyers
Peopling the Past:
Gender and Representation in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology………………………… 498

This is also available from Eisenbrauns, and we should have copies of it for
sale at AAR/SBL.

James


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> Subject: [ANE-2] Gitin Festschrift: table of contents?
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> Does anyone on-list have the full Table of Contents for the
> following
> festschrift, recently published? (Try as I might, I don't seem to be
> able to turn up the details....)
>
> "Up to the Gates of Ekron":
> Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean
> in Honor of Seymour Gitin
> edited by
> Sidnie White Crawford, Amnon Ben-Tor,
> J.P. Dessel, William G. Dever, Amihai Mazar, and Joseph Aviram
>
> A publication of the Albright Institute and the Israel Exploration
> Society
> Jerusalem: 2007
> ISBN: 978-965-221-066-1
> xxvi + 510 pages, including illustrations
> $92.00 (cloth)
> 25% discount for Israel Exploration Society members
> (+ $16 for surface mail shipping)
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> To order or for further information, contact
> The Israel Exploration Society
> P.O. Box 7041
> 91070 Jerusalem
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> Fax: 972-2-624-7772
> E-mail: ies@...
>
> The volume, published to commemorate Seymour Gitin's Silver Jubilee as
> Director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in
> Jerusalem, contains 46 essays by 54 renowned scholars from North
> America, Europe, and Israel.
>
> Any assistance much appreciated,
>
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>
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