Oded Borowski – författare

The agricultural world of Old Testament Israel swarmed with animals—birds, insects, fish, pack animals, pets, animals for hunting, and domesticated herds of sheep, goats, and cattle. Using information from the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern documents, anthropology, and archaeology, Borowski synthesizes what we know about the use of animals in biblical times for food, clothing, transportation, and even cultic practices. This comprehensive catalog is a convenient desk resource for any reader_whether biblical scholar, archaeology student, or layperson. Essays on pastoral systems, cult, and agricultural economics, makes this also an important tool for researchers.

The agricultural world of Old Testament Israel swarmed with animals-birds, insects, fish, pack animals, pets, animals for hunting, and domesticated herds of sheep, goats, and cattle. Using information from the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern documents, anthropology, and archaeology, Borowski synthesizes what we know about the use of animals in biblical times for food, clothing, transportation, and even cultic practices. This comprehensive catalog is a convenient desk resource for any reader_whether biblical scholar, archaeology student, or layperson. Essays on pastoral systems, cult, and agricultural economics, makes this also an important tool for researchers.

This book deals with agriculture as practiced in ancient Israel from the settlement to the destruction of the First Temple. It describes crops and trees cultivated by the Israelite farmer and the methods and tools used in cultivation. The information is gathered from both literary and archaeological sources, with the Old Testament supplying most of the literary information. The author attributes several innovations to the biblical peasant: large-scale terracing, runoff farming (i.e. irrigation), restoration of soil fertility, and the invention of the beam oil-press.Out of print for some time, Eisenbrauns is pleased once again to make this valuable resource available.

This volume presents the results of five seasons of excavation (1977–1987) in Field III at Tell Halif, Israel, conducted under the Lahav Research Project. This report provides a comprehensive record of the site’s Field III stratigraphy, architecture, and material culture from the Early Bronze III (ca. 2700–2200 BCE) and from the Late Bronze II through the Iron Age II (ca. 1400–586 BCE), with later remains extending into the Persian and Roman/Byzantine periods.Excavations in Field III revealed the development of Tell Halif’s western defenses from the Early Bronze period onward, culminating in a substantial Iron Age II fortification line. This stratum includes casemate-like pillared houses fronted by a sloping stone-faced glacis, forming the city’s western fortification system. Four successive Iron Age II occupation phases document the evolution of domestic architecture and material culture from the ninth through early seventh centuries BCE, providing key evidence for patterns of household organization, daily life, and urban planning in the late Iron Age.Together with complementary data published from other excavation areas at Tell Halif, the Field III materials offer an essential dataset for the study of Judahite settlement and fortification systems. This volume contributes significantly to scholarship on the social and architectural development of Iron Age towns in the southern Levant and to ongoing discussions of the historical and archaeological contexts of the late eighth-century BCE Assyrian campaigns in Judah.