Table of contents for "I will speak the riddles of ancient times" : archaeological and historical studies in honor of Amihai Mazar on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday / edited by Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji.

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Contents
Volume 1
Preface 	 x
Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji
Introduction:
Amihai Mazar, an Appreciation 	 xii
Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji
Bibliography of Amihai Mazar 	 xvi
Part 1
Early Bronze Age Studies
Parochialism in Early Bronze Age I Ceramic Traditions: The Case of a "Safi Cup" from the EB I Site at Palmahim Quarry, Israel 	 3
Eliot Braun
Two Notes on Early Bronze Age Megiddo 	 7
Israel Finkelstein and David Ussishkin
Copper and Bronze Objects from
Tell Abu al-Kharaz and Sahem, Jordan: 
Some Reflections on the Results of
Atomic-Absorption Spectroscopy 	 25
Peter M. Fischer
The Southern Frontier of Canaan during the Early Bronze Age III: Some Neglected Evidence 	 33
Ram Gophna and Dan Gazit
What's Cooking in Early Bronze Age II? 	 39
Raphael Greenberg
A Failed Innovation:
Early Bronze Age Trapezoid Mud Bricks at Lod 	 49
Egon H. E. Lass
At the Dawn of History:
Sociopolitical Developments in Southwestern Palestine in Early Bronze Age III 	 55
Pierre de Miroschedji
The Fourth-Millennium bce Origin of
the Three-Tanged "Epsilon" Axe 	 79
Benjamin Sass and Michael Sebbane
The Origin and Distribution of the 
Collared-Rim Pithos and Krater: 
A Case of Conservative Pottery Production in the Ancient Near East from the Fourth to the First Millennium bce 	 89
Eli Yannai
Part 2
Middle and Late Bronze Age Studies
"Filling in" the Void: 
Observations on the Habitation Pattern 
at Tel Akko at the End of the Late Bronze Age 	 115
Michal Artzy
Nomads or Mnmn.t-Shepherds in 
the Eastern Nile Delta in the New Kingdom 	 123
Manfred Bietak
Quelques perles de cornaline 	 137
Annie Caubet et Marguerite Yon
Female Figurines from the
Deir el-Balah Settlement and Cemetery 	 149
Trude Dothan
The Political Organization of the City-States 
in Southwestern Palestine 
in the Late Bronze Age IIB (13th Century bc) 	 161
Michaøl Jasmin
Architecture et Modølisme au Proche-orient 	 193
Jean-Claude Margueron
Middle Bronze Age II Minor Cult Places at Ebla? 	 217
Paolo Matthiae
A Seal-Cutter's Workshop at Enkomi and
Its Implications for the Nationality of
Late Cypriot Bronze Age Glyptics 	 235
Robert S. Merrillees
A Corpus of Eighteenth-Dynasty
Egyptian-Style Pottery from Tel Beth-Shean 	 247
Robert A. Mullins
An Egyptian Marsh Scene on Pottery from Tel Seraº: 
A Case of Egyptianization in 
Late Bronze Age III Canaan 	 263
Eliezer D. Oren
Sinuhe's World 	 277
Anson F. Rainey
Part 3
Philistine/Sea Peoples Studies
Philistine Bichrome Pottery:
The View from the Northern Canaanite Coast 	 303
Ayelet Gilboa
Anat Cohen-Weinberger
Yuval Goren
A Philistine "Head Cup" (Rhyton)
from Tell es-Søf i/Gath 	 335
Aren M. Maeir
The Political Organization of the Philistines 	 347
Itzhaq Shai
The Chronology of the Philistine Monochrome Pottery: An Outsider's View 	 361
Susan Sherratt
Biblical Philistines: 
A Hellenistic Literary Creation? 	 375
Lawrence E. Stager
The Sea Peoples Cult in 
Philistia and Northern Israel 	 385
Ephraim Stern
Volume 2
Part 4
Iron Age Studies
Ecological Principles in the Bible:
Surviving in the Hill Country 	 401
Oded Borowski
The Excavations at Tell el-Hammah:
A Prelude to Amihai Mazar's
Beth-Shean Valley Regional Project 	 407
Jane M. Cahill
Archaeology and Ancient Israelite Iconography:
Did Yahweh Have a Face? 	 439
William G. Dever
Farmsteads in the Foothills of Western Samaria:
A Reexamination 	 455
Avraham Faust
The lmlk Jar-Form Redefined:
A New Class of Iron Age II Oval-Shaped Storage Jar 	 483
Seymour Gitin
Black-Burnished Ammonite Bowls 
from Tall al-ºUmayri and Tall Hisban in Jordan 	 503
Larry G. Herr
Notes on Religious Symbolism in
Cypriot Vase-Painting, ca. 1050/600 bc 	 519
Vassos Karageorghis
The Emergence of Ancient Israel: 
The Social Boundaries of a 
"Mixed Multitude" in Canaan 	 533
Ann E. Killebrew
Can a Proto-Israelite Please Stand Up?
Notes on the Ethnicity of Iron Age Israel and Judah 	 551
Raz Kletter
The Early Israelite Monarchy in the Sorek Valley:
Tel Beth-Shemesh and Tel Batash (Timnah)
in the 10th and 9th Centuries bce 	 565
Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman
Does the "Low Chronology" Work?
A Case Study of Tell Qasile X, 
Tel Gezer X, and Lachish V 	 587
Steven M. Ortiz
"Off the Wall":
Wall Brackets and Cypriots in Iron Age I Israel 	 613
Nava Panitz-Cohen
The Provenance of the Unpublished Ivories
from Samaria 	 637
Ron E. Tappy
Part 5
Historical, Biblical,
and Epigraphic Studies
The Function of the 
m(w)ßh-Stamped Jars Revisited 	 659
Diana Edelman
The Historical Prologue in a Letter from 
Suppiluliuma II to ºAmmurapiª,
King of Ugarit (RS 18.038) 	 673
Amir Sumakaªi Fink
The Complex of Traditions in Judges 4 and 5 
and the Religion of Pre-state Israel 	 689
Volkmar Fritz
Salomon et la fille de Pharaon:
Un probløme d'interprøtation historique 	 699
Andrø Lemaire
The Search for Gibeah:
Notes on the Historical Geography of
Central Benjamin 	 711
William M. Schniedewind
The Hittites and the Bible Revisited 	 723
Itamar Singer
A Provenance Study of Hebrew Seals
and Seal Impressions:
A Statistical Analysis 	 757
Andrew G. Vaughn and Carolyn Pillers Dobler
Part 6
Jerusalem Studies
The Solomonic Wall in Jerusalem 	 775
Eilat Mazar
Jerusalem of Gold; Revisited 	 787
Shalom M. Paul
On the Original Length of Hezekiah's Tunnel:
Some Critical Notes on David Ussishkin's Suggestions 	 795
Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron
The Burials of the Judean Kings:
Sociohistorical Considerations and Suggestions 	 801
Jeffrey R. Zorn
Part 7
Post/Iron Age Studies
Two Notes on the History and Archaeology 
of Judea in the Persian Period 	 823
Hanan Eshel and Boaz Zissu
The Application of Ethnographic Analogy to the
Examination of Roman/Byzantine Pastoral
Practices in the Mount Carmel Region 	 833
Liora Kolska Horwitz
The Structure and Installations at Hulda and
Their Function as a Jewish Winepress 	 853
Amos Kloner
The Ceramic Incense Shovels from Sepphoris:
Another View 	 865
Eric M. Meyers
The Tyranny of Texts: 
A Rebellion against the Primacy of Written Documents 
in Defining Archaeological Agendas 	 879
Steven A. Rosen

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Middle East -- Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East.