Research on Israel and Aram: Autonomy, Independence and Related Issues. Proceedings of the First Annual RIAB Center Conference, Leipzig, June 2016.

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This congress volume of the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times combines theoretical approaches to historical research on autonomy or independence in ancient cultures and then presents articles which study the subject using Aram and Israel in antiquity as examples. These articles show clearly how strongly Syria and Palestine were linked to one another and how they constituted one single cultural region which was connected by its economy, politics, language, religion, and culture. Cover Titel Table of Contents Preface List of Abbreviations Section I. Cultural Autonomy and Independence in the Historical Sciences JAN DIETRICH: Liberty, Freedom, and Autonomy in the Ancient World: A General Introduction and Comparison PAUL WEIRICH: Models of Cultural Transmission CHRISTOPH WULF: Implicit Decision Making in Rituals DAVID SMITH: Addressing the Dilemmas of Ethno-Cultural Diversity in the Modern World: National-Cultural Autonomy – Utopian Vision or Practical Solution? Section II. Aram and Israel in the Biblical Sources ECKART OTTO: The Arameans in the Book of Deuteronomy YIGAL LEVIN: Aram and Arameans in Chronicles THOMAS RÖMER: The Strange Conversion of Naaman, Chief of the Aramean Army NILI WAZANA: From Joshua to Zakkur: Military Coalitions in the Story of the Conquest of the Land (Joshua 10–11) in the Light of the Kurkh Monolith and the Stele of Zakkur ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN: Between Jeroboam and Jeroboam: Israelite Identity Formation 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 Levant SHUICHI HASEGAWA: ?En Gev in the Iron Age II: Material Culture and Political History NAAMA YAHALOM-MACK, NAVA PANITZ-COHEN, AND ROBERT A. MULLINS: An Iron Age I Cultic Context at Tel Abel Beth-Maacah ADI ELIYAHU-BEHAR, VANESSA WORKMAN, AND 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 Syria Section V. Historical Perspectives on Aramean-Israelite Interactions OMER 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 Judah Section VI. Historical Perspectives on Later Periods LEEOR 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 AND IAN STERN: Divination Texts from Maresha MARCO FRENSCHKOWSKI: Are Syrians Arameans? Some Preliminary Remarks on Syriac Ethnic Identity in Late Antiquity Index of Ancient Written Sources Index of Ancient Names