The Fire Signals of Lachish : Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: David Ussishkin -- Publications of David Ussishkin -- Indelible Impression: Petrographic Analysis of Judahite Bullae -- Excavations at Tel Malḥata: An Interim Report -- Close Yet Apart: Diverse Cultural Dynamics at Iron Age Beth-Shemesh and Lachish -- Whole L...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: David Ussishkin -- Publications of David Ussishkin -- Indelible Impression: Petrographic Analysis of Judahite Bullae -- Excavations at Tel Malḥata: An Interim Report -- Close Yet Apart: Diverse Cultural Dynamics at Iron Age Beth-Shemesh and Lachish -- Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On: The Possible Destruction by Earthquake of Stratum VIA at Megiddo -- Tel Azekah: A New Look at the Site and Its "Judean" Fortress -- Why Did Nebuchadnezzar II Destroy Ashkelon in Kislev 604 B.C.E? -- Tall al-Umayri in the Iron Age I Facts and Fiction with an Appendix on the History of the Collared Rim Pithoi -- From Megiddo to Tamassos and Back: Putting the "Proto-Ionic Capital" in Its Place -- Voyage to Yarimuta -- Iron Age IIA Occupational Phases in the Coastal Plain of Israel -- Distribution and Use of Storage Vessels in the Kingdom of Judah -- Inside the Walls of Nehemiah's Jerusalem: Naboth's Vineyard -- The Evolution of the 8th-Century B.C.E. Jerusalem Temple -- The Origin and Date of the Volute Capitals from the Levant -- Comparative Aspects of the Aramean Siege System at Tell eṣ-Ṣāfi/Gath -- Egyptian-Type Pottery at Late Bronze Age Megiddo -- Tel Reḥov in the Assyrian Period: Squatters, Burials, and a Hebrew Seal -- The Shephelah according to the Amarna Letters -- Reconsidering the Buildings in Area A at Edomite Buseirah -- The Persian Period City Wall of Jerusalem -- Phoenician Clay Masks from Tel Dor -- The Waters of Shiloah (Isaiah 8:5-8) -- On the Toponymy of the Jezreel Valley and Adjacent Plains -- Reexamining Area DD at Megiddo -- Ruin Cults at Iron Age I Hazor -- Indexes Ausführliche Beschreibung