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Acknowledgements Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-26
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 156, No. 1, 2024)
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Guest Editorial: Gaza's Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Life Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Felicity Cobbing, Linda Hulin
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 156, No. 1, 2024)
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Faynan, Nomads and the Western Negev in the Early Iron Age: A Critical Reappraisal Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Piotr Bienkowski, Juan Manuel Tebes
The final report on the Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project concludes that local nomadic tribes created a complex polity at early Iron Age Faynan, in southern Jordan, that was responsible fo...
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An Iron Age II ceramic figurine from Umm Sweiwineh, Central Jordan Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Hashem Khries, Taher Al-Gonmeen
This paper assesses a typical Ammonite terracotta figurine discovered during the rescue excavation conducted at Umm Sweiwineh in the periphery of Amman in 2014 by the Department of Antiquities of J...
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Books Received Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-11
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Double Review: Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology & Revealing the History of Ancient Palestine Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Chloe Emmott
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Investigating changing socio-economic landscapes from the Early Bronze I–III in the Levant through Zooarchaeology Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Gwendoline Maurer, Mariana Albuquerque
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Towards a Chronological Framing of the Two Mosques of Islamic Baydha Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Micaela Sinibaldi
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-11 John MacDermot
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Contributions to the Archaeology of Palestine by Overlooked Twentieth-Century Palestinian Archaeologists, Yusra Al-Ḥaifawiyah, Naṣr Dwekat and Ibrahim Al-Fanni Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Loay Abu Alsaud
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Jonathan Nicholas Tubb21st December, 1951 – 25th September, 2023 Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-11
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Ian W. N. Jones
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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The Petra Hinterland Social Landscapes Project (PHSLP): Summary Report on the First Season, 2022 Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Will M. Kennedy
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-10-19 John MacDermot
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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‘Sacred Landscapes’: The Umayyad Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca and their Pilgrim Camps (PEF 2020 Grant) and towards final publication of the Umayyad Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca and their Pilgrim Camps: Mapping ‘Sacred Landscapes’ (PEF 2021 Grant) Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Claudine Dauphin
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Stephen D. Sutton
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Conducted by the University of Maryland and the University of Haifa, Final Reports. Volume 1 Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Jacopo Dolci
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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Books Received Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-10-19
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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Atlas of Palestine 1871-1877 Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Hana Sleiman, Nadi Abusaada
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 2, 2023)
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Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Ola Wikander
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 2, 2023)
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Professor Alan Millard retires from PEQ Editorial Advisory Board Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-06-13
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 2, 2023)
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Acknowledgements Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-06-13
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 2, 2023)
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Acknowledgements Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-22
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 1, 2023)
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Strategies of Animal Exploitation in Late Iron Age IIA Ḥorvat Tevet (the Jezreel Valley) Reveal Patterns of Royal Economy in Early Monarchic Israel Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Abra Spiciarich, Omer Sergi, Karen Covello-Paran, Yoav Tsur, Hannes Bezzel, Lidar Sapir-Hen
ABSTRACT Faunal remains from Ḥorvat Tevet, a site located in the rural hinterlands of the Jezreel Valley, reveal patterns of a complex redistributive apparatus during the Late Iron IIA. This paper assesses a large assemblage of animal bones within inter- and intra-site comparative analyses. Inter-site comparisons to contemporary sites in the northern valleys of Israel demonstrate that the agricultural
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Nine new Byzantine Funerary Inscriptions from El-ʿIrāq (Southern Jordan) Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Musallam R. Al-Rawahneh, Gonzalo Fontana Elboj
ABSTRACT This paper aims to bring to light and edit nine Byzantine funerary inscriptions discovered in the town of El-‘Irāq (western Governorate of Karak, southern Jordan). All these pieces belong to the period ranging from the 5th to the 6th centuries ce. Like the majority of the inscriptions from the area, these epigraphs consist of short epitaphs engraved on rectangular tombstones made of local
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A Hiding Complex and Ritual Bath (Miqveh) at Ḥorvat Maskana and the Question of Their Use in the Byzantine Period Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Mechael Osband, Yinon Shivtiel
ABSTRACT Parts of a subterranean hiding complex and a miqveh (ritual bath) were excavated at Ḥorvat Maskana in 2020. The Byzantine pottery from the excavation, along with the dating of the plaster, suggests that the complex was used in the Byzantine period and may originally have been hewn in the Roman period. Additional hiding complexes with not only Roman but also Byzantine pottery exist elsewhere
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The 2011 Season of Excavation at Gadara (Umm Qais) of the Decapolis Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Lamia El-Khouri
This paper is a final report of the 2011 season of excavation at the archaeological site of Gadara (Umm Qais) in Jordan. The season was directed by Lamia El-Khouri (PhD), during the 15th of June un...
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Something old, something new: Ongoing revelations within the Faynan Landscape Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Alexis E. Dolphin, Russell B. Adams
ABSTRACT The long-term research projects within the Faynan Basin of southern Jordan continue to yield new and unexpected finds of all periods. This report focuses upon the investigation of the region in the Faynan floodplain, an area known from previous archaeological survey and limited excavation. Renewed investigation in 2019 focused upon analysis of the environmental impact of early metallurgy upon
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In the Footsteps of Honor Frost: The Life and Legacy of a Pioneer in Maritime Archaeology Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Linda Hulin
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 1, 2023)
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The Level V City Wall at Lachish Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Hoo-Goo Kang, Sang-Yeup Chang, Yosef Garfinkel
ABSTRACT In a recent article published in this journal (Finkelstein 2020, PEQ 152, 85–93), newly published data on Level V at Tel Lachish was criticized. This new data indicates that Level V was a fortified city and that radiometric dating places its construction in the last quarter of the 10th century bce. This date is in accordance with the biblical tradition describing the fortification of Lachish
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The Case of the Two Volute Capitals from Tel Hazor Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Doron Ben-Ami
ABSTRACT This article contests the interpretation of the two volute capitals discovered at Hazor in the late 1950s put forward by Kleiman (online 2021; print 2022), who viewed these monumental artworks in their secondary depositional location as silent testimony for a political shift experienced by the city in the Iron Age IIB. Unearthed in secondary use in Stratum VII and originally belonging in an
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John Bartlett, unintentional mentor Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-19 J Bjørnar Storfjell
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 4, 2022)
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Rev. Professor John R Bartlett Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Graham I Davies, Felicity Cobbing, John MacDermot
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 4, 2022)
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Dating the Fortress of Umm Tawabin, Jordan: Results of Radiocarbon Dating Analysis Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Alexandra Ariotti
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 4, 2022)
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A Summary Report – PEF Grant: ‘Khirbat al-Mafjar Archaeological Project, Jericho’ Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Mahmoud Hawari
PROJECT ABSTRACT The Khirbat al-Mafjar Archaeological Project in Jericho (2009–2014) was initiated to achieve a better understanding of Hisham’s Palace within the context of its historical and cultural landscape, and the phenomenon of the Umayyad palaces in the Levant. Six seasons of landscape archaeological survey and excavations in the hinterland of the palace have revealed a large enclosure wall
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Agency, Kinship and the Case of the Northern Kingdom of Israel Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Erin Hall
Scholars who study the Northern Kingdom of Israel repeatedly refer to it as a centralised state or kingdom and often take a neo-evolutionary approach in their assessments of its character. This pap...
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The 2022 survey season at Khirbet al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, Jordan Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Diederik J. H. Halbertsma
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 4, 2022)
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Juliusz Słowacki in the Holy Land in 1837 Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Elżbieta Jastrzębowska
ABSTRACT The Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) travelled through Palestine between 2 January and 27 January 1837, from El-Arish on the southern border with Egypt, at that time quarantined owing to plague, to the area around Lake Tiberias in the north, which had just been devastated by a strong earthquake. A detailed analysis of the itinerary of this pilgrimage has made it possible to establish
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Miniature Terracotta Masks from the Decapolis City of Gerasa/Jerash, Jordan Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Adnan Shiyab, Saad Twaissi
ABSTRACT Masks have had a very long history in human culture. They differ in their form, function, and material through time, and from one culture to another. This paper brings attention to the newly discovered miniature terracotta masks from the classical Decapolis city of Gerasa/Jerash in Jordan dated to the Roman period. Here, four masks are introduced. The aim of this paper is to describe and to
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Some thoughts about Words Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-10 J Bjørnar Storfjell
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 3, 2022)
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Why those who Shovel are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-10 J. A. Baird
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 3, 2022)
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Acknowledgements Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-10
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 3, 2022)
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An Iron Age Stone Toilet Seat (the ‘Throne of Solomon’) from Captain Montagu Brownlow Parker’s 1909–1911 Excavations in Jerusalem Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Shimon Gibson
ABSTRACT This paper reconstructs the history of the publications relating to the results of Captain Montagu Brownlow Parker’s 1909–1911 excavations in Jerusalem, comprising the English and French versions of the book Underground Jerusalem by Père Louis-Hugues Vincent, and four articles by that same author appearing in the pages of Revue Biblique. The significant part played by the English translator
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Tatami: The Enigmatic Toponym of Western Judah, and Use of Suffixes in Dating Toponyms Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Noam Agmon
Sometimes, all that remains from the history of a place is its name. Thus, toponyms may provide valuable information. Moving backward in time, we trace the ancient history of the Arab/Crusader vill...
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Sounds in the desert: New evidence of ambos in Shivta churches Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Emma Maayan-Fanar, Yotam Tepper
A hexagonal marble object from the Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem, found during excavations of H. D. Colt in the 1930s, has been identified as a canopy of an ambo. It probably belonged to one of the...
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‘Nevermind the Camel!’: The Hogarth Archive and the Wilderness of Zin Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Adam John Fraser
ABSTRACT The recent acquisition of the Hogarth Archive by Magdalen College Archives provides new insights to be achieved on the extraordinary work of David George Hogarth as one of the preeminent scholars of the Balkans and Middle East in the last half of the 19th and the early 20th century. He was a committee member of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) and director of the British Museum excavations
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On Olive Oil and Perfume Production in Iron Age IIA Tell es Safi/Gath, Israel Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-06 David Eitam
ABSTRACT The statement by Maeir and colleagues ‘that production of olive oil was a central aspect in the agricultural production in [Tell es-Safi/Gath] region already during the Iron I and Iron IIA’ (Maeir et al. 2020, 129) is being challenged here. The authors’ conclusions are examined by analysing the Iron Age IIA devices of Tell es-Safi/Gath, facing the development of olive oil production in Iron
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Books Received Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-06-13
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 2, 2022)
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Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Felicity Cobbing
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 2, 2022)
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Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan: Games and gaming in a domestic neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Shira Albaz, Haskel J. Greenfield, Tina L. Greenfield, Annie Brown, Itzhaq Shai, Aren M. Maeir
ABSTRACT Discussions on daily life in Early Bronze Age society in the southern Levant often focus on subsistence or ritual phenomena, while aspects relating to entertainment and leisure are rarely discussed. This paper presents evidence for gaming behaviour, in the form of game boards and game pieces, that were recovered in the excavations of the Early Bronze Age (early to mid-3rd millennium bce) residential
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Under the Mediterranean I: Studies in Maritime Archaeology Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Lisa Briggs
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 2, 2022)
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Tel ‘Afar (Tell al-Akhdar): A Monastic or Estate Church on the Via Maris South of Caesarea Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Ofra Barkai, Alexandra Ratzlaff, Itamar Taxel
ABSTRACT A monumental building at the coastal site of Tel ‘Afar, on the Via Maris—the road linking Antioch and Alexandria, was previously identified as the villa of a wealthy citizen of Caesarea. A new geological and archaeological survey at the site and re-examination of the findings from previous excavations, provide a new interpretation of the function and character of this building. Taken together
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Filling the gap: A microscopic zooarchaeological approach to changes in butchering technology during the Early and Middle Bronze periods at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Haskel J. Greenfield, Jeremy A. Beller, Jane S. Gaastra, Dieter Vieweger
ABSTRACT The Early Bronze Age (3500–2000 bce) of the southern Levant experienced the development of bronze metal technology, but the rate and nature of its dissemination beyond the elite are unclear. In the southern Levant and elsewhere, based upon the microscopic analysis of butchering marks, it has been proposed that bronze slicing tools only begin to be used in quantities in the Middle Bronze. However
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Notes and News Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Loay Abu Al-Saud Dr
(2022). Notes and News. Palestine Exploration Quarterly: Vol. 154, No. 1, pp. 1-1.
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The Roman-Period Road Network in Southern Moab: A Geographic and Historical Enquiry Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Uri Davidovich, Chaim Ben-David, Roi Porat
ABSTRACT In recent years, a well-preserved Roman-period road network was explored in southern Moab, descending the steep topographic gradient from the Moabite plateau to the south-eastern Dead Sea region. This network comprises three paved roads—Kathrabba, Kuniyeh and Zoar Ascents—installed according to Roman principles of road construction, sharing features such as minimal width of 4 m, kerbstones
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The Use of Greek in Palestine: Eupolemus as a Case Study Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Marieke Dhont
ABSTRACT Eupolemus, a Jewish historian generally dated to the second century bce, is often dismissed as a poor Greek writer. This lack of competency is linked to the assumptions that, as a Jew, he had limited Greek-language education and that he lived in Palestine, where Greek supposedly would have been marginal. The example of Eupolemus is illustrative of two issues in the study of Hellenistic Judaism
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Invisible Excavators: The Quftis of Megiddo, 1925–1939 Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Eric H. Cline
The staff members from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago who oversaw the excavations at Megiddo relied upon skilled Egyptian workmen (Quftis) as well as local labourers during the...
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The Career of Moses Shapira, Bookseller and Antiquarian Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Michael Press
This article takes a look at the career of Moses Shapira, the notorious bookseller, antiquities dealer, and possible forger of 19th-century Jerusalem. Despite Shapira’s fame among scholars, his car...
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Establishing a baseline for the study of maritime cultural heritage in the Gaza Strip Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Georgia M. Andreou, M. Fradley, L. Blue, C. Breen
As a result of its geographic location, cultural diversity and historical trajectory, the Gaza strip is a key zone of scholarly enquiry and has a central role in the historical, social, political, ...
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Edom at the Edge of Empire: A Social and Political History Palestine Exploration Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Piotr Bienkowski
(2022). Edom at the Edge of Empire: A Social and Political History. Palestine Exploration Quarterly: Vol. 154, No. 1, pp. 76-79.