Levantine Entanglements

Terje Stordalen is professor of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. Oystein S. LaBianca is a professor of anthropology at Andrews University in Michigan

• PrefaceA New Format for Writing the History of the Levant: Introductionto the Volume Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBiancaPart I: Levantine Localities and Long-Term Change1. The Region of the Levant and the Importance of the Local Perspective Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca2. Cultural Production in the Iron Age Southern Levant Terje Stordalen3. Lenses on Accumulative Cultural Production in the Southern Levant: Toward a Middle Range Interpretive Methodology Øystein S. LaBianca4. Local Power and Social Discourse: Villages in Early Globalizations of the Southern Levant Terje StordalenPart II: The Levant through Time: Case StudiesPanel A: Places and IdeologiesIntroduction to Panel AØystein S. LaBianca5. Drivers of Accumulative Cultural Production in the Southern Levant: The View from Tall Hisban, Jordan Øystein S. LaBianca and Jeffrey Hudon, Andrews University6. Heshbon in the Biblical Record: A History of Remembering Terje Stordalen7. Place-Making in the Jordanian Madaba Plains: The Contested Space of Tall Ḥesbān and its Village Surroundings Frode F. Jacobsen, Bergen University College8. Local Dynamics of Globalization in the Roman Near East: The Case of Palmyra Eivind Heldaas Seland, University of BergenPanel B: Scriptures—Ideology, Practices, and CommunityIntroduction to Panel B Terje Stordalen9. Early Forms of Judaism as a Mixture of Strategies of Cultural Heterogeneity and the Re-embedding of Local Culture in Archaic Globalization Diana V. Edelman, University of Oslo10. Dynamics of Power and the Re-Inventing of “Israel” in Persian Empire JudahKåre Berge, NLA University College11. The Production of Authority in Levantine Scriptural Ecologies: An Example of Accumulative Cultural Production Terje StordalenPanel C: Pilgrimage—Localities and Global DiscourseIntroduction to Panel C Terje Stordalen12. The Production of the Constantinian Holy Land Øyvind Norderval, University of Oslo13. The Agency of Women in Curating the Christian Holy Land Jill E. Marshall, Emory University14. Local Cult, Transforming Miracles, and Global Discourses: Saint George in Lydda Christine Amadou, University of Oslo15. The Infrastructure of Shared Sacred Sites in Hatay, Turkey: Interreligious Dynamics of Saint Veneration in the Northern Levant Jens Kreinath, Wichita State UniversityPanel D. Polycentrism—Local Communities and Trans-local FormationsIntroduction to Panel D Øystein LaBianca and Terje Stordalen16. Itinerancy in Manichaean Networks of the Levant and Egypt Håkon F. Teigen, Independent Scholar17. Reconstructing Homeland at a Time of Globalizing Change: Peasant Migration in Late Medieval SyriaBethany J. Walker, University of Bonn18. Honor, Shame, and Hospitality: The Distribution of Power in the Premodern Levant Eveline J. van der Steen, Independent ScholarConcluding ReflectionsOn a Way Forward for Understanding the Levant Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca