Kiriath-jearim

Israel Finkelstein is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the Head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Culture at the University of Haifa. He is Co-director of the Megiddo Expedition. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. He is the Laureate of the Dan David Prize, 2005, and Recipient of the MacAllister Field Archaeology Award of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2017. He has authored and edited 23 books and published some 450 scholarly articles. Thomas Römer is Professor at the Collège de France and its President since 2019 and is Professor Emeritus of the University of Lausanne. He holds honorary doctorates from Tel Aviv University and the Catholic University of Lyon. His current research covers the formation of the Torah, the so-called Deuteronomistic History and its social and historical setting, as well as the relationship between literary and archaeological approaches to understanding the Hebrew Bible. He is one of the main editors of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. His main publications include: Israels Väter (1990); The So-Called Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, Historical and Literary Introduction (translated into many languages); L’invention de Dieu (translated into many languages) and Genèse 11,26–25,18; L’histoire d’Abraham.

• CHAPTER 1 IntroductionISRAEL FINKELSTEIN, THOMAS RÖMER AND CHRISTOPHE NICOLLECHAPTER 2 Kiriath-jearim in the BibleISRAEL FINKELSTEIN AND THOMAS RÖMERCHAPTER 3 Area AASSAF KLEIMAN AND YANA KIRILOVCHAPTER 4 Area BZACHARY C. DUNSETH AND NAAMA WALZERCHAPTER 5 Area CJULIETTE MAS, EYTHAN LEVY AND ERIN HALLCHAPTER 6 Evidence for Activity in the Bronze Age and Early Phasesof the Iron AgeJULIETTE MAS AND ISRAEL FINKELSTEINCHAPTER 7 Two Ceramic Assemblages from Area AASSAF KLEIMANCHAPTER 8 The Iron IIC Pottery from Area CJULIETTE MAS AND LIORA FREUDCHAPTER 9 The Hellenistic Pottery from Areas A and BDÉBORA SANDHAUSCHAPTER 10 The Roman PotteryYANA KIRILOVCHAPTER 11 The Small FindsRELI AVISAR AND YANA KIRILOVCHAPTER 12 A Conoid Seal from Area ARELI AVISAR AND ASSAF KLEIMANCHAPTER 13 Ceramic FigurinesMARGARET E. COHENCHAPTER 14 Stamped and Incised Jar HandlesODED LIPSCHITS AND IDO KOCHContentsCHAPTER 15 Potter’s Marks and Other Incisions and Impressions on HandlesODED LIPSCHITS AND LIORA FREUDCHAPTER 16 CoinsYOAV FARHICHAPTER 17 Glass FindsRUTHY LEWIS-BLOOMCHAPTER 18 HobnailsYANA KIRILOVCHAPTER 19 Roof TilesYANA KIRILOVCHAPTER 20 Dating the Main Architectural Features in Areas A and B:OSL Results and Archaeological ConsiderationsISRAEL FINKELSTEIN AND NAOMI PORATCHAPTER 21 Seismic and Geodetic Investigation of the SummitYANIV DARVASI AND AMOTZ AGNONCHAPTER 22 Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) SurveyYANIV DARVASI AND AMOTZ AGNONCHAPTER 23 Faunal Remains from Area CLIDAR SAPIR-HENCHAPTER 24 Ostraca Search ProtocolEYTHAN LEVY AND SHIRA FAIGENBAUM-GOLOVINCHAPTER 25 An Iron II Burial Cave on the Slope of Tel Kiriath-jearimGIDEON GOLDENBERGCHAPTER 26 The Iron II Burial Cave: The PotteryLIORA FREUDCHAPTER 27 The Iron II Burial Cave: The Human RemainsVERED ESHEDCHAPTER 28 The Iron II Burial Cave: Ancient DNA Sampling and Analysis ofUniparental MarkersARIE SHAUS AND DAVID REICHCHAPTER 29 Conclusions: The Settlement History of Kiriath-jearimISRAEL FINKELSTEIN, THOMAS RÖMER AND CHRISTOPHE NICOLLEIndex of LociANDREA GARZA-DÍAZBARRIGA AND MAʿAYAN REUVEN