And the Canaanite Was Then in the Land: Selected Studies on the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Southern Canaan

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This volume is an excavation report on the important Bronze and Iron Age site, Tel Nagila. The site was excavated in the 1960s but the report was never published. Tel Nagila was an important Middle Bronze Age site and a Judahite site during Iron Age II. This report includes chapters by experts discussing the finds, including tombs, pottery and flint artifacts, as well as a spatial analysis and explorations of the cultic nature of the site. Foreword Contents The Late Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi/Gath and the site’s role in Southwestern Canaan The Wheat-People of Canaan Late Bronze Age Azekah – an almost forgotten story A reevaluation of Gezer in the Late Bronze Age in light of renewed excavations and recent scholarship Tel Batash in the Late Bronze Age – a retrospect First impression on the urban layout of the last Canaanite city of Lachish: a view from the northeast corner of the site Lachish is Lachish on the Lachish bowl: an object lesson for reading Hieratic, with little surprising results Tel Burna in the Late Bronze – assessing the 13th century BCE landscape of the Shephelah Jerusalem in the Late Bronze Age – The Glass Half Full Hebron in the Late Bronze Age: Discoveries of the of the American expedition to Hebron (Tell er-Rumeide) The Transjordanian Jordan Valley in the Late Bronze Age: under Egyptian control? Shifting meanings and values of Aegean-type pottery in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant Prestige and authority in the Southern Levant during the Amarna Age Southwestern Canaan and Egypt during the Late Bronze Age I–IIA Index