| Description |
xv, 220 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 26 cm |
| Summary |
Since the momentous discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1948, the pace of archaeological exploration and escavation has quickened throughout the Holy Land. The present volume is a record of the accomplishments of these significant years. |
| Contents |
Introduction / James B. Pritchard -- Archaeological Periods of the Holy Land. Before the Bible. The dawn of history in southern Palestine / Jean Perrot -- Beidha : an early neolithic village in Jordan / Diana Kirkbride -- Jericho : oldest walled town / Kathleen M. Kenyon -- The Cave of Treasure / Pessah Bar-Adon -- The cemetery at Bab edh-Dhraʹ, Jordan / Paul W. Lapp -- A Canaanite-Hyksos city at Tell Nagila / Ruth Amiran and A. Eitan -- Rock engravings in the central Negev / Emmanuel Anati. Biblical cities and temples. The rise and fall of Hazor / Yigael Yadin -- Excavations at the Oasis of Engedi / Benjamin Mazar -- The Citadel of Ramat Rahel / Yohanan Aharoni -- Arad : an early Bronze Age city and a Biblical citadel / Ruth Amiran and Yohanan Aharoni -- A reconstruction of Solomon's Temple / Paul Leslie Garber -- Jaffa's history revealed by the spade / J. Kaplan -- Six campaigns at Biblical Shechem / James F. Ross and Lawrence E. Toombs -- Ashdod : a city of the Philistine Pentapolis / Moshe Dothan -- Gibeon : where the sun stood still / James B. Pritchard. Post-Biblical Palestine. The Nabataeans in Petra / Crystal M. Bennett -- The scrolls from the Judaean Desert / Frank M. Cross, Jr. -- Masada : a zealot fortress / Yigael Yadin -- The Necropolis of Beth Sheʹarim / N. Avigad -- Castles in Zin / Harris Dunscombe Colt -- The Umayyad Palace of Khirbat al-Mafjar / Oleg Grabar -- The Hospice of the Knights of St. John in Akko / Zeev Goldmann. |
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Israel -- Antiquities.
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Jordan -- Antiquities.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Archaeological Institute of America. Archaeological discoveries in the Holy Land. New York, Crowell [1967] (OCoLC)581750479 |
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