Jon, Â There are scenes of the naval battles with ships of Mycenaean design and Egyptian design (Wachsmann) fighting each other in the Nile Delta. Â Pottery...
I believe ABBYY FineReader would work for you. Its language support is very good. I've used it even to OCR Hebrew texts (i.e. Modern Hebrew; I don't think it...
David, You wrote: “One does not know whether Hazor was destroyed by the Sea Peoples, the Egyptians, or Israel. An army does not always settle on the ruins...
Birmingham-born historian and archaeologist Wilfred Lambert dies by Brett Gibbons, Birmingham Post Dec 1 2011 An eminent Birmingham-born historian and...
Penn Museum Launches Online Collections Database http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2011/12/penn-museum-launches-online-collections.html -Chuck Jones- ISAW...
Greetings, All, Could anyone on the list tell me if there are any books aimed at undergraduates on women in ancient Mesopotamia, something along the lines of...
David, I failed to mention another point of interest regarding the destroyer of Hazor’s final LBA city, which relates to the unlikelihood of Egypt being the...
Doug, couldn't you bring up something better than 50+ years old rabble. I see no reference to any literature really post-Yadin. At least we could ask you to...
... David. Shelley Wachsmann "sees" an Aegean-style ship on a seal from Beit Shemesh. An Aegean-style ship in graffiti at Nahal ha-Me'arot, and again at...
Niels, Thanks for your input. I always enjoy your replies. Someday maybe I will have the pleasure of meeting you face-to-face. “couldn't you bring up...
It was during a visit to Copenhagen more than ten years ago that Ben Tor said so. Maybe to please us! At the time where Ben Tor still thought that he would...
N P Lemche wrote: Pre-Hellenistic Palestine was never able to sustain cities of the Hazor size. " I beg to differ. There are several Early Bronze Age sites...
Ideologies are not on trial here. We left that behind in the 1950's. Whether a man is a Biblical Archaelogist or Israeli Apologist is a matter for him alone....
it depends on what you consider a large town. 5.000 inhabitants, 10.000, 25.000, 50.000 thousand. Hazor may in the Bronze Age have reached 25.000 (the...
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... I seems that we need a good method to approach these textes. As I noted, the great inscription of year 8 clearly states that the coalition of enemies...
This is not about ideology. This is about good and bad methodology. It has been one of the tricks of evangelical criticism of critical biblical scholarship to...
Dear Stephanie, Although not a book exclusively on women in ancient Mesopotamia, "Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia, by Rivkah Harris, University of Oklahomka...
Dear Stephanie, Zainab Bahrani's 'Women of Babylon: gender and representation in Mesopotamia', is what comes to mind. I hope this helps. -- Nineb Lamassu ...
Though not precisely new, Jesse Casana's CORONA Atlas of the Middle East http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2011/12/corona-atlas-of-middle-east.html seems...
I would also recommend three authors. Sarah Pomeroy (Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves; Women in Classical Antiquity), Raymond Westbrook (Old Babylonian...
As a claim was made that: "Pre-Hellenistic Palestine was never able to sustain cities of the Hazor size.", I feel it incumbent upon myself to defend my EB...
It is also clear from new data at this years annual ASOR meeting that the lower city at Megiddo in the EB was similar in size to Hazor and at Tell es-Safi/Gath...
Dr. Braun, In reference to NP Lemche’s comment about Palestine not sustaining Pre-Hellenistic cities of the Hazor size, you wrote, “I beg to differ. There...
Dear Dr. Petrovich, Â Thank you for your clarification. I do not think that Ai is necessarily at et-Tell, that is just the name the site goes by. My point was...
Dear Eliot, While, of course, the term Kinahhi does come from the LB period, the term is geographical and the ethnic connotations involved in the English...
Niels, of course it is about ideology. You haven´t offered a single objective argument till now, why Yadins observations as an archaeologist should be flawed...
Michael is right at one point: Biblical studies can be a nasty place to be. Never forget the dying Melancton: Happy to be free of the rabies theologicarum! ...
Anger seems to run away with Michael Banjai's letter and he distorts some things. I find it objectionable that I need to defend myself against personal attack...
Dear List Members, I allow myself to say that some of the recent posts I find rude. Some of it is simply not true. Michael Banyai's post looks like unfriendly...
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Dear Niels Peter, Would you care to expand (either here or in Jim West's Biblical Literature discussion group, as you deem appropriate) on what you mean by...
