Middle Eastern history
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Delights from the Garden of Eden
This is an abbreviated version of the award-winning and highly acclaimed second edition published in 2013, beautifully illustrated throughout, and displays the diversity of the region's traditional culinary practices, delicious and enduring. This edition contains 300 of the original 400 recipes, all...
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Walking through Jordan
Michael P Neeley, Geoffrey A Clark, PM Michele Daviau
The objective of Walking through Jordan is to acknowledge and honor the singular achievements and wider impacts of Jordan's most prominent survey archaeologist, Burton MacDonald. MacDonald is a biblical scholar by training who has written extensively about the Iron Age and early Christianity. Howeve...
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Leadership, Social Memory and Judean Discourse in the Fifth-Second Centuries BCE
Diana V. Edelman, Ehud Ben Zvi, Diane Hughes, James Bos, Kåre Berge, Reinhard Muller, Geoffrey Parsons Miller, Christophe Nihan, Terje Stordalen, Thomas Bolin, Beate Ego, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Lynette Mitchell, Wolfgang Oswald, Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter
Diana V. Edelman, Ehud Ben Zvi
The theme of leadership played an important role in ancient Israel and its discourse. It was explored time and again through memories of proper, improper and in-between leaders and through memories of particular institutions like monarchy, priesthood, and prophethood. The ways in which this theme wa...
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Framing Archaeology in the Near East
This volume presents a series of studies by scholars working in Middle Eastern archaeology who actively apply social theory to interpret their fieldwork. It aims to highlight the value of using social theory in the interpretation of field work in a region where, traditionally, such approaches have n...
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The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Aren Maeir, Merilyn Copland, Oded Borowski, Ithaq Shai, Chris McKinny, Joe Uziel, Tim Frank, Eric Welch, Seung Ho Bang, Elizabeth R. Arnold, Edward F. Maher, Nava Panitz-Cohen, Jill Citron Katz, Erin Darby, Amihai Mazar, Rafael Y. Lewis, Shira Gur-Arieh, Michael Dee, Brita Lorentzen, Piotr Bienkowski, Sarah Kielt Costello, Jennie Ebeling, Rona Avissar Lewis, Helen Dixon, Jonathan S. Greer, Aaron Brody, Deirdre N. Fulton, Naama Yahalom-Mack, Leann Pace, Laura Wright
The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant is a user-friendly exploration of basic concepts within archaeology and the techniques and methods used by archaeologists in the field. It is intended for students and lay readers alike, such as those participating in community archaeology for the...
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Ancient Cookware from the Levant
Ancient clay cooking pots in the southern Levant are unappealing, rough pots that are not easily connected to meals known from ancient writings or iconographic representations. To narrow the gap between excavated sherds and ancient meals, the approach adopted in this study starts by learning how foo...
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Peripheral Concerns
Peripheral Concerns examines the influence of one "core" region of the ancient Near Eastern world -- Egypt -- on urban development in the southern Levant in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, with emphasis on the relative stability and sustainability of this development in each era. The study utilize...
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Finding Myth and History in the Bible
Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano, Chiara Peri, Jim West
The essays collected in this volume focus on methodological and historical topics related to the study of the history of ancient Israel. Contributors offer readers new readings of disputed texts, new methodological tools for study of the ancient world inhabited by an entity called "Israel," and a va...
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The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa
This book examines the history of the European Scramble for Africa from the perspective of the Omanis and other Arabs in East Africa. It will be of interest not only to African specialists, but also those working on the Middle East, where awareness is now emerging that the history of those settled o...
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High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt
This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and unfamiliar materials, expanding consideration of ancient Egyptian elite culture to encompass lived experience and exploitation of the natural environment. The opening chapter sets out the conceptual ground for the analyses that follow, arguing t...