Essays from scholars of the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible honor Oded Borowski's pioneering work in the archaeology and history of ancient Israel and Judah. Contributors approach the question of what we know of eighth-century Judah from multiple angles, including a survey of Judah's neighbors, the land of Judah and its cities, daily life and material culture, religious beliefs and practices, and early forms of what are now biblical texts.
Author(s): Zev I. Farber, Jacob L. Wright (eds.)
Series: Ancient Near East Monographs, 23
Publisher: SBL Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 610
City: Atlanta
Editors’ Preface xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction / Jacob L. Wright 1
PART 1. JUDAH’S NEIGHBORS NEAR AND FAR 15
1. Assyria’s Expansion West of the Euphrates (ca. 870–701 BCE) / K. Lawson Younger Jr. 17
2. Images, Merchants, and Mercenaries: Aegeans and Southern Judah in the Eighth Century BCE / Sandra Blakely 35
3. The Kingdom of Israel in the Eighth Century: From a Regional Power to Assyrian Provinces / Gilad Itach 57
4. Bethsaida: The Capital City of the Kingdom of Geshur / Rami Arav 79
5. Philistia in the Late Iron Age II: The Development of the Ceramic Assemblage / Seymour Gitin 99
6. Transjordan in the Eighth Century BCE / Bruce Routledge 139
7. Egypt and Judah in the Eighth Century BCE / Donald Redford 161
PART 2. THE LAND OF JUDAH 177
8. Society and Culture in the Kingdom of Judah during the Eighth Century / Avraham Faust 179
9. The Introduction of the Open-Courtyard Building to the Jerusalem Landscape and Judean-Assyrian Interaction / Yuval Gadot and Efrat Bocher 205
10. Coming to Recognize that Sedentary Agriculture, or Farming, Was Rarely Practiced in the Hesi Region / Jeffrey A. Blakely and James W. Hardin 229
PART 3. ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY 265
11. Daily Life / Jennie Ebeling 267
12. 'He Shall Eat Curds and Honey' (Isa 7:15): Food and Feasting in Late Eighth-Century Judah / Cynthia Shafer-Elliott 279
13. Ancient Building Techniques: A Brief Overview / Assaf Avraham 299
14. The Pottery Assemblage of the Eighth Century: A Concluding Observation / Hayah Katz 307
15. Judah under Assyrian Rule and the Early Phase of Stamping Jar Handles / Oded Lipschits 337
16. Should All of the LMLK Jars Still Be Attributed to Hezekiah? Yes! / Andrew G. Vaughn 357
PART 4. RELIGION AND RITUAL 363
17. Death and Burial in Eighth-Century Judah / Elizabeth Bloch-Smith 365
18. Religion in Eighth-Century Judah: The Case of Kuntillet ʿAjrud (and Beyond) / Brent A. Strawn and Joel M. LeMon 379
19. Judean Pillar Figurines (JPFs) / Erin Darby 401
20. Enculturating Children in Eighth-Century Judah / Kristine Henriksen Garroway 415
21. Religion in Eighth-Century Judah: An Overview / Zev I. Farber 431
PART 5. BIBLICAL AND LITERARY 455
22. Scripture and Inscriptions: Eighth-Century Israel and Judah in Writing / Christopher Rollston 457
23. The Shock of Assyrian Imperial Ideology and the Responses of Biblical Authors in the Late Eighth Century / Shawn Zelig Aster 475
24. The Biblical Writings in the Late Eighth Century BCE / Konrad Schmid 489
25. Prophetic Discourse on 'Israel' / Reinhard G. Kratz 503
26. Israel and the Jerusalem Temple in the Time of Two Kingdoms / Daniel E. Fleming 517
APPENDIX: SURVEY OF SCIENTIFIC METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGY / Yair Sapir, with Shani Libi 529
Contributors 555
Ancient Sources Index 565
Place Index 575
Modern Authors Index 581
