From Nomadism to Monarchy?

Ido Koch is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan During the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age.Oded Lipschits is Professor of Jewish History in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near East Studies at Tel Aviv University. He was named Laureate of the EMET Prize in the field of Archaeology in 2022. Omer Sergi is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near East Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is coeditor of Saul, Benjamin, and the Emergence of Monarchy in Israel: Biblical and Archaeological Perspectives.

• ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction Ido Koch, Oded Lipschits and Omer Sergi1. Paleo-environment of the Southern Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages: The Pollen Evidence Dafna Langgut and Israel Finkelstein2. Animal Subsistence Economy during the Late Bronze-Iron I: Continuity vs. Change Lidar Sapir-Hen3. From Production Autonomy to Centralization: The Iron I to Iron IIA Transition from a Metallurgical Perspective Naama Yahalom-Mack4. The Northern Coastal Plain during the Early Iron Age (Iron I – Early Iron IIA) Gunnar Lehmann5. Sixty Years after Aharoni: Iron Age Settlements in the Upper Galilee Ido Wachtel6. Beyond Hazor: Urban Durability, Political Instability and Collective Memory in the Northern Jordan Valley at the Turn of the Second Millennium BCE Assaf Kleiman7. Canaanites in a Changing World: The Jezreel Valley during the Iron Age I Eran Arie8. Transitions between the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age II: The Character of the Iron I Settlement at Tall Zirāʿa in Northern Jordan Dieter Vieweger and Katja Soennecken9. Iron I Settlements in the Highlands of Samaria and the Creation of Group Identities with an Emphasis on Mount Ebal Yuval Gadot10. The Formation of the Israelite Monarchies in Archaeology, History and Historiography Omer Sergi11. Like Frogs out of a Pond: Identity Formation in Early Iron Age Philistia and Beyond Aren M. Maeir12. Collapse and Regeneration in Late Second Millennium Southwest Canaan Ido Koch13. A False Contrast? On the Possibility of an Early Iron Age Nomadic Monarchy in the Arabah (Early Edom) and Its Implications for the Study of Ancient Israel Erez Ben-Yosef14. The Book of Josiah or the Book of Joshua? Excavating the Literary History of the Conquest Story Cynthia Edenburg15. The Origin, Function and Disappearance of the Ark of the Covenant according to the Hebrew Bible Thomas Römer16. The Scope of the Pre-Deuteronomistic Saul – David Story Cycle Nadav Na’aman17. The Rise of Ancient Israel: The View from 2021 Israel FinkelsteinIndex of Geographic NamesIndex of SubjectsIndex of Modern Authors