Research on Israel and Aram

Angelika Berlejung (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1961; ist Professorin für „Geschichte und Religion Israels und seiner Umwelt" an der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Leipzig, außerordentliche Professorin für Altertumswissenschaften an der University of Stellenbosch/Südafrika, Gastprofessorin für Biblische Archäologie an der Bar-Ilan-Universität/Israel sowie ordentliches Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.Aren M. Maeir (Herausgegeben von) is a professor of Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University.

• Section III. Archaeological Perspecives on the Arameans in the Northern Levant Dominik Bonatz: The Myth of Aramean Culture - Daniele Morandi Bonacossi: Iron Age Mishrifeh: An Aramean Specialized Production Center in the Hamath Kingdom?Section IV. Archaeological Perspectives on the Aramean-Israelite Inter-relations in the Southern LevantShuichi Hasegawa: ʿEn Gev in the Iron Age II: Material Culture and Political History - Naama Yahalom-Mack/Nava Panitz-Cohen/Robert A. Mullins: An Iron Age I Cultic Context at Tel Abel Beth-Maacah - Adi Eliyahu-Behar/Vanessa Workman/Amit Dagan: Early Iron Production at Philistine Tell es-Safi/Gath vs. Israelite Tel Megiddo - Yifat Thareani: Archaeology of an Imagined Community: Tel Dan in the Iron Age IIa - Gunnar Lehmann: Hazael in the South - Assaf Kleiman: Invisible Kingdoms? Settlement Oscillations in the Northern Jordan Valley and State Formation in Southwestern SyriaSection V. Historical Perspectives on Aramean-Israelite InteractionsOmer Sergi: The Memory of the Kingdom of Geshur in Biblical Literature - Karel van der Toorn: Arameans and Israelites in Papyrus Amherst 63 - Christian Frevel: State Formation in the Southern Levant: The Case of the Arameans and the Role of Hazael's Expansion - Herbert Niehr: The Relations between the Kingdoms of Hamath and Israel - Yuval Levavi: A Peculiar Taxation Practice of Judean Exiles in Rural Babylonia and its Possible Connection to Building Activity in Late Sixth Century JudahSection VI. Historical Perspectives on Later PeriodsLeeor Gottlieb: From Translation to Midrash: On the Role of Aramaic Targum towards the End of the First Millennium CE - Abraham Tal: Between Early and Late Samaritan Aramaic - John Healey: "Arameans" and Aramaic in Transition: Western Influences and the Roots of Aramean Christianity - ‏ Esther Eshel/Ian Stern: Divination Texts from Maresha - Marco Frenschkowski: Are Syrians Arameans? Some Preliminary Remarks on Syriac Ethnic Identity in Late Antiquity