Symbiosis, symbolism, and the power of the past : Canaan, ancient Israel, and their neighbors from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina / proceedings of the Centennial Symposium, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and American Schools of Oriental Research, Jerusalem, May 29/31, 2000 ; edited by William G. Dever and Seymour Gitin.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Islands in the sea: Aegean polities as Levantine neighbors / Sarah P. Morris -- The case of Ugarit and Carchemish: a contrast / Annie Caubet -- Greece and Anatolia in the early Iron Age: the archaeological evidence and the literary tradition / James D. Muhly -- The Mediterranean economy: "globalization" at the end of the second millennium B.C.E. / Susan Sherratt -- The patrimonial kingdom of Solomon / Lawrence E. Stager -- City-states to states: polity dynamics in the 10th-9th centuries B.C.E. / Israel Finkelstein -- Remarks on biblical traditions and archaeological evidence concerning early Israel / Amihai Mazar -- Assyria's expansion in the 8th and 7th centuries and its long-term repercussions in the West / Simo Parpola -- Egyptian interventions in the Levant in Iron Age II / Kenneth A. Kitchen -- Early Achaemenid Iran: new considerations / David Stronach -- Palestine among the empires from the 4th to the 1st century B.C.E.: impact and reaction / Doron Mendels -- Temple or "Bêt Marzeaḥ"? / Manfred Bietak -- Amarna and later: aspects of social history / Anson F. Rainey -- The Aegean and the Orient: cultic interactions / Trude Dothan -- The cult of Astarte in Cyprus / Vassos Karageorghis -- False dichotomies in descriptions of Israelite religion: a problem, its origin, and a proposed solution / Ziony Zevit -- Mesopotamian imperialism and Israelite religion: a case study from the second Isaiah / Peter Machinist -- When the heavens darkened: Yahweh, El, and the divine astral family in Iron Age II Judah / Mark S. Smith --

Israelite and Philistine cult and the archaeological record in Iron Age II: the "smoking gun" phenomenon / Seymour Gitin -- Phoenician cult expressions in the Persian period / Edouard Lipiński -- The Phoenician source of Palestinian cults at the end of the Iron Age / Ephraim Stern -- Late Israelite astronomies and the early Greeks / Baruch Halpern -- The Jewish world and the coming of Rome / John J. Collins -- Helios and the Zodiac cycle in ancient Palestinian synagogues / Jodi Magness -- Nine months among the peasants in the Palestinian highlands: an anthropological perspective on local religion in the early Iron Age / Karel van der Toorn -- Building identity: the four-room house and the Israelite mind / Shlomo Bunimovitz and Avraham Faust -- Material remains and social relations: women's culture in agrarian households of the Iron Age / Carol Meyers -- The clan-based economy of biblical Israel / Baruch A. Levine -- At home with the goddess / Susan Ackerman -- The family in Persian period Judah: some textual reflections / H. G. M. Williamson -- Roman-period houses from the Galilee: domestic architecture and gendered spaces / Eric M. Meyers -- Apocryphal women: from fiction to (arti)fact / Amy-Jill Levine -- Syro-Palestinian and biblical archaeology: into the next millennium / William G. Dever -- Jerusalem as a royal and cultic center in the 10th-8th centuries B.C.E / David Ussishkin -- Discussions.