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FACULTY OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGION Final Honour School Book List for Paper 25 Archaeology in Relation to the Old Testament Geographical background (a) Atlases Y.

1 FACULTY OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGION Final Honour School Book List for Paper 25 Archaeology in Relation to the Old Testament Geographical background (a) Atlases Y. Aharoni & The Macmillan Bible Atlas (3 rd edn.; New York: Macmillan, M. Avi-Yonah 1993). A. Curtis Oxford Bible Atlas (4 th edn., Oxford: OUP, 2007). L.H. Grollenberg Atlas of the Bible (London: Nelson, 1957). H.G. May (ed.) Oxford Bible Atlas (3rd edn. rev. J. Day; Oxford: OUP, 1984) J. B. Pritchard (ed.) The Times Atlas of the Bible (London: Times Books, 1989). A.F. Rainey & R.S. Notley, The Sacred Bridge: Carta s Atlas of the Biblical World (Jerusalem: Carta, 2006). J. W. Rogerson (ed.) New Atlas of the Bible (London: Phaidon, 1989). (b) General Y. Aharoni The Land of the Bible (revd. edn. by A. F. Rainey; London: Burns & Oates, 1979). D. Baly The Geography of the Bible (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987). G. A. Smith The Historical Geography of the Holy Land (25th edn.; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931). (Unsurpassed descriptions of Palestine; the historical geography should be supplemented from recent research). Archaeology (a) General Y. Aharoni The Archaeology of the Land of Israel (London: SCM, 1982). M. Avi-Yonah (ed.) Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (4 vols.; Oxford & Jerusalem: OUP & Israel Exploration Society, ). S. Bunimovitz Problems in the Ethnic identification of a Philistine Material Culture, in Tel Aviv 17 (1990) pp E.H. Cline Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP, 2009). W.G. Dever Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research (Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1990). W.G. Dever What did the Biblical Writers Know and When did they Know It? What Archaeology can tell us about the reality of Ancient Israel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2001). T. Dothan People of the Sea. The Search for the Philistines 1

2 & M. Dothan (New York, Toronto & Oxford: Macmillan, Maxwell Macmillan Canada & Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992). I. Finkelstein The Bible Unearthed (New York: The Free Press, 2001). & N.A. Silberman V. Fritz An Introduction to Biblical Archaeology (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994). N. Glueck The Other Side of the Jordan (American revised edn.; New Haven, CT: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1945). K.M. Kenyon The Bible and recent Archaeology (rev.edn. by P.R.S. Moorey; London: British Museum Publications, 1987). P. King & L. Stager Life in Biblical Israel (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001). T.Levy (ed.) The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land (London: Leicester University Press, 1995). A. Mazar Archaeology of the Land of the Bible 10, BCE (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1993). P.R.S. Moorey Excavation in Palestine (Guildford, Surrey: Lutterworth Press, 1981). P. R. S. Moorey A Century of Biblical Archaeology (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1991). P.R.S. Moorey Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East (Oxford: OUP/British Academy, 2003) S. Moscati The World of the Phoenicians (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968; London: Phoenix Giant, 1999). O. Negbi Canaanite Gods in Metal (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology, 1976). A. Negev Cities of the Desert (Tel-Aviv: E. Lewin-Epstein, 1966). L. Stager Forging an Identity, in The Oxford History of the Biblical World (Oxford: OUP, 2001). Ch. 3, pp E. Stern (ed.) The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavation in the Holy Land (4 vols.; Jerusalem, New York & London: Israel Exploration Society & Carta, Simon & Schuster, 1993). D.J. Wiseman (ed.) Peoples of Old Testament Times (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973). (b) Specific Sites 1. Sites apart from Jerusalem, Qumran and Ugarit R. Amiran & Ancient Arad (Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1967). Y. Aharoni J. R. Bartlett Jericho (Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1982). A. Biran Biblical Dan (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society & Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1994). G.I. Davies, Megiddo (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 1986). T. Dothan Ekron of the Philistines, in Biblical Archaeology Review 16 (1990), pp K.M. Kenyon Digging up Jericho (London: E. Benn, 1957). K.M. Kenyon Royal Cities of the Old Testament (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1971). J.B. Pritchard Gibeon, where the sun stood still (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962). 2

3 G.E. Wright Shechem, the Biography of a Biblical City (London: Duckworth, 1965). Y. Yadin Hazor: The Rediscovery of a Great Citadel of the Bible (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975). Y. Yadin Masada: Herod's Fortress and the Zealot's Last Stand (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966; London: Phoenix Illustrated, 1997). 2. Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and the relevance of its finds for the O. T. P. Craigie Ugarit and the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983). A. Curtis Ugarit (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1985). J. Day God's Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea: Echoes of a Canaanite Myth in the Old Testament (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985). J. Day Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.). J. C. L. Gibson Canaanite Myths and Legends (2 nd edn.; Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1978). J. Gray The Legacy of Canaan (Leiden: Brill, 1965.). A. S. Kapelrud The Ras Shamra discoveries and the Old Testament (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965.). 3. Jerusalem E. Stern (ed.) The New Encyclopaedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (Jerusalem, New York & London: Israel Exploration Society & Carta; Simon & Schuster, 1993). Vol. 2, pp on the early and pre-exilic O.T. period and pp on the post-exilic, intertestamental and New Testament (especially Herodian) periods. H. Shanks Jerusalem: an archaeological biography (New York: Random H. Sh House, 1995.). H. Shanks Jerusalem s Temple Mount: From Solomon to the Golden Dome (New York: continuum, 2007). A. G. Auld & M.L. Steiner Jerusalem I (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1996). B. Mazar The Mountain of the Lord (Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1975). J. Wilkinson Jerusalem as Jesus knew it (London: Thames and Hudson, 1978). Y. Yadin (ed.) Jerusalem revealed: Archaeology and the Holy City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976). H. Geva Ancient Jerusalem revealed (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994), pp J. Murphy O'Connor The Holy Land (5th edn.; Oxford: OUP, 2008), section on Jerusalem. Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York & London: Doubleday, 1992.), vol. 3, pp Specifically on Solomon's Temple: A. Parrot The Temple of Jerusalem (London: S.C.M. Press, 1957), pp J. Ouellette Essay in J. Gutmann (ed.), The Temple of Solomon (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1976), pp

4 4. Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls For an up-to-date translation of the most important scrolls see: G. Vermes The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (Complete edn.; London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1997.). For up-to-date general evaluations of the Scrolls and Qumran see: J. C. VanderKam The Dead Sea Scrolls Today (2 nd edn.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2010). Excellent overall survey. G. Vermes An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls (London: SCM, 1999). J. Fitzmyer Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1993). P. R. Davies Qumran (Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1982.). J. Magness The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002). Older books - written before the more recently released scrolls were published - include: F. M Cross The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies (London: G. Duckworth, 1958.). F. F. Bruce Second Thoughts on The Dead Sea Scrolls (London: Paternoster Press, 1956.). (c) Texts and Pictures of Sites and Objects R.D. Barnett Illustrations of Old Testament History (2 nd edn. revised and enlarged; London: British Museum Publications, 1977) W.W. Hallo (ed.) The Context of Scripture (3 vols.,; Leiden: Brill, ) J.B. Pritchard Ancient Near Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament (3rd edn. w. supplement; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969). J.B. Pritchard The Ancient Near East in Pictures (2nd edn. w. supplement; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969). D. Winton Thomas (ed.) Documents from Old Testament Times (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1958). (d) The Development of the Alphabet N. Avigad and Corpus of North West Semitic Stamp Seals (Jerusalem: Israel B. Sass Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Israel Exploration Society: Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997). J. Naveh Early History of the Alphabet (Jerusalem & Leiden: Magnes Press, Hebrew University & E.J. Brill, 1982.; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1987). J. Naveh Writing and Scripts in Philistia Israel Exploration Journal 35 (1985) 8-21 B. Sass Studia Alphabetica (Freiburg, Schweiz & Göttingen: Universitätsverlag & Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991). 4

5 S. Segert Cuneiform alphabets from Syria and Palestine" in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 113 (1993) (e) Assyrian Presence in Palestine B. Becking The two neo-assyrian documents from Gezer in their Historical Context, Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux, 27 ( ), pp W. G. Dever Solomonic and Assyrian period palaces at Gezer in Israel Expl. Journal, 35 (1985), pp O. Lipschitz The date of the Assyrian residence' at Ayyalet ha- Shahar Tel Aviv 17 (1990), pp G.E. Markoe The Emergence of Phoenician Art, BASOR, 279 (1990), pp R. Reich The identification of the sealed karu of Egypt, in Israel Exploration Journal, 34 (1984), pp J. McKay Religion in Judah under the Assyrians (London: SCM, 1973.). A. Biran & Ethnicity and Regional Archeology: The Western Negev Y. Avitam under Assyrian Rule, in Biblical Archeology Today 1990 (1993) by E. Oren. (f) Economy of Israel A. Biran Biblical Dan (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1994). M. Dayagi-Mendels Perfumes and Cosmetics in the Ancient World (Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1989). D. Eitam Olive-oil production during the Biblical period in M. Heltzer and Olive oil in Antiquity (Haifa: University of Haifa; Israel Oil D. Eitam (eds.), Industry museum; Dagon Museum, 1987). I. Finkelstein Arabian Trade and Socio-Political Conditions in The Negev, 12 th 11 th Century BC, JNES 47 (1989). N. Karmon & "Archaeological evidence of the purple dye industry from E. Spanier Israel", in E. Spanier (ed.), The Royal Purple and the Biblical Blue (Jerusalem: Keter, 1987). P. E. McGovern and The Late Bronze Egyptian Garrison at Beth Shean: S. J. Fleming Glass and Faience Production and Importation in Late New Kingdom, BASOR 290 (1993) pp L. E. Stager and Production and Commerce in Temple Courtyards S. R. Wolff BASOR 243 (1981) pp B. Rothenberg The Egyptian mining temple at Timna (London: Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies, 1988). I. Finkelstein and Processes of Sedentarization and Nomadization in the Perevolotsky History of Sinai and the Negev, in BASOR, 279 (1990) pp (g) Archaeology and the Patriarchs G.W. Ramsey The Quest for the Historical Israel (Atlanta: Knox, 1981; London: SCM, 1982). P. K. McCarter in H. Shanks (ed.), Ancient Israel (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1988), chapter 1. 5

6 J. Maxwell Miller The Old Testament and the Historian (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976), pp R. de Vaux The Early History of Israel (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1978), vol.1., pp T.L. Thompson The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1974). See review by J.A. Emerton in Journal of Theological Studies, 27 (new series, 1976), pp J. Van Seters Abraham in History and Tradition (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1975), pp (See review by E.W. Nicholson in Journal of Theological Studies, 30 (new series, 1979), pp (The older consensus may be seen in J. Bright, A History of Israel (3rd edn; London: SCM, 1981), pp or (2nd edn.; ), pp ). (h) Archaeology and the Israelite Settlement J. Bright History of Israel (3rd edn; London: SCM, 1981). (For violent conquest model: different page nos. in the different editions!) A. Alt Essays on Old Testament History and Religion (Oxford: Blackwell, 1966), pp M. Weippert The Settlement of the Israelite Tribes in Palestine (London: SCM, 1971). (For peaceful settlement model). I. Finkelstein The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1988), esp. pp V. Fritz "Conquest or Settlement? The Early Iron Age in Palestine", in Biblical Archaeologist, 50 (1987), pp (For modified version of the peaceful settlement model). G. E. Mendenhall "The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine", in Biblical Archaeologist, 25.3 (1962), pp (For peasants' revolt model) W. G. Dever in Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research (Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, W.G. Dever 1990), pp Who Were the Israelites and Where did they Come From? (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans). G.W. Ramsey The Quest for the Historical Israel (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1981), pp J. R. Bartlett Jericho (Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1982). JD/mf/2012 6

B. Differentiate and describe major archaeological sites in Israel. MDiv-6, -7; MTS-1, -2, -5, -7, -9

B. Differentiate and describe major archaeological sites in Israel. MDiv-6, -7; MTS-1, -2, -5, -7, -9 Houston Graduate School of Theology BI 685 Selected Topics: Biblical Archeology Israel Trip class: Biblical Archaeology Doug Kennard, Professor of Christian Scriptures 713-942-9505 dkennard@hgst.edu Houston