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The archaeology of difference : gender, ethnicity, class and the "other" in antiquity : studies in honor of Eric M. Meyers / edited by Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough.

Contributor(s): Edwards, Douglas R | McCollough, C. Thomas
Material type: TextTextSeries: Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research: Publisher: Boston, Mass. : American Schools of Oriental Research, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: xiii, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780897570701 (alk. paper); 0897570707 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Social archaeology -- Middle East | Ethnoarchaeology -- Middle East | Ethnicity -- Middle East -- History | Sex role -- Middle East -- History | Social classes -- Middle East -- History | Middle East -- Antiquities | Meyers, Eric MDDC classification: 939/.4 LOC classification: CC72.4 | .A73 2007Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The archaeology of difference : setting the stage / C. Thomas McCollough and Douglas R. Edwards -- Jewish and Muslim heritage in Europe : the role of archaeology in defending cultural diversity / Neil Silberman -- The emergence of social complexity in the Neolithic of the Near East / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- Gender and social hierarchy in the Chalcolithic period in the light of the Peqiʼin Cave, Israel / Zvi Gal, Howard Smithline and Dina Shelem -- Ethnicity and the archaeological record : the case of early Israel / William G. Dever -- From field crops to food : attributing gender and meaning to bread production in Iron Age Israel / Carol Meyers -- Queen or crone ? : gendered archaeology in an LB tomb at Gezer / Joe D. Seger -- No stelae, no queens : two issues concerning the kings of Israel and Judah / Gary A. Rendsburg -- The problem of the other(ed) woman in Nahum / Julia M. O'Brien -- Linguistic variation emphasized, linguistic variation denied / Raymond F. Person , Jr. -- Representing the Cushite other : the use of Cushite phenotypes in Numbers 12 and Jeremiah 13:23 / Rodney S. Sadler, Jr. --
What sort of Jews were the Tobiads? / Adam Porter -- The relationship between Galilean archaeology and historical Jesus research / John Dominic Crossan -- Zum Standort des Tempels / Volkmar Fritz -- "When I went to Rome...there I saw the menorah..." : the Jerusalem Temple implements during the second century C.E. / Steven Fine -- Miqwāʼôt and Second Temple sectarianism / Carol Selkin Wise -- The stepped water installations of the Sepphoris acropolis / Katharina Galor -- Stepped pools and the non-existent monolithic "miqveh" / Stuart S. Miller -- Jewish ossuaries of the early Roman period : continuity and change in death ritual / Byron R. McCane -- Attitudes toward the dead : protective measures employed against the desecration of tombs, coffins, and ossuaries / Rachel Hachlili -- Khirbet Qana's necropolis and ethnic questions / Peter Richardson -- Monumental changes : architecture and culture in late Roman and early Byzantine Sepphoris / C. Thomas McCollough --
The butchers of Sepphoris : archaeological evidence of ethnic variability / Bill Grantham -- Sepphoris and the earliest Christian congregatoins / James F. Strange -- The lives of glass-workers at Sepphoris / Alysia Fischer -- Two terracotta figurine fragments from the Sepphoris acropolis / Melissa Aubin -- The archaeology of Bethsaida and the historical Jesus quest / Rami Arav -- Caesarea Philippi (Paneas) in the Roman and Byzantine periods / Vassilios Tzaferis -- Rabbis, Romans, and rabies : religion, disease, and the "other" : a case study / Barbara Geller -- Celsus of Pergamum : locating a critic of early Christianity / Stephen Goranson -- Marketing religious difference in late antique Syria-Palestine : clay oil lamps as clientele indicators / Eric C. Lapp -- "Set the showbread on the table before Me always" (Exodus 25:30) : artistic representations of the showbread table in early Jewish and Christian art / Zeev Weiss -- Christians among Jews in En-Gedi / Anna de Vincenz -- Nomad settlement in Palestine during the late Byzantine-early Moslem period / Zeʼev Safrai and Ofer Sion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The archaeology of difference : setting the stage / C. Thomas McCollough and Douglas R. Edwards -- Jewish and Muslim heritage in Europe : the role of archaeology in defending cultural diversity / Neil Silberman -- The emergence of social complexity in the Neolithic of the Near East / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- Gender and social hierarchy in the Chalcolithic period in the light of the Peqiʼin Cave, Israel / Zvi Gal, Howard Smithline and Dina Shelem -- Ethnicity and the archaeological record : the case of early Israel / William G. Dever -- From field crops to food : attributing gender and meaning to bread production in Iron Age Israel / Carol Meyers -- Queen or crone ? : gendered archaeology in an LB tomb at Gezer / Joe D. Seger -- No stelae, no queens : two issues concerning the kings of Israel and Judah / Gary A. Rendsburg -- The problem of the other(ed) woman in Nahum / Julia M. O'Brien -- Linguistic variation emphasized, linguistic variation denied / Raymond F. Person , Jr. -- Representing the Cushite other : the use of Cushite phenotypes in Numbers 12 and Jeremiah 13:23 / Rodney S. Sadler, Jr. --

What sort of Jews were the Tobiads? / Adam Porter -- The relationship between Galilean archaeology and historical Jesus research / John Dominic Crossan -- Zum Standort des Tempels / Volkmar Fritz -- "When I went to Rome...there I saw the menorah..." : the Jerusalem Temple implements during the second century C.E. / Steven Fine -- Miqwāʼôt and Second Temple sectarianism / Carol Selkin Wise -- The stepped water installations of the Sepphoris acropolis / Katharina Galor -- Stepped pools and the non-existent monolithic "miqveh" / Stuart S. Miller -- Jewish ossuaries of the early Roman period : continuity and change in death ritual / Byron R. McCane -- Attitudes toward the dead : protective measures employed against the desecration of tombs, coffins, and ossuaries / Rachel Hachlili -- Khirbet Qana's necropolis and ethnic questions / Peter Richardson -- Monumental changes : architecture and culture in late Roman and early Byzantine Sepphoris / C. Thomas McCollough --

The butchers of Sepphoris : archaeological evidence of ethnic variability / Bill Grantham -- Sepphoris and the earliest Christian congregatoins / James F. Strange -- The lives of glass-workers at Sepphoris / Alysia Fischer -- Two terracotta figurine fragments from the Sepphoris acropolis / Melissa Aubin -- The archaeology of Bethsaida and the historical Jesus quest / Rami Arav -- Caesarea Philippi (Paneas) in the Roman and Byzantine periods / Vassilios Tzaferis -- Rabbis, Romans, and rabies : religion, disease, and the "other" : a case study / Barbara Geller -- Celsus of Pergamum : locating a critic of early Christianity / Stephen Goranson -- Marketing religious difference in late antique Syria-Palestine : clay oil lamps as clientele indicators / Eric C. Lapp -- "Set the showbread on the table before Me always" (Exodus 25:30) : artistic representations of the showbread table in early Jewish and Christian art / Zeev Weiss -- Christians among Jews in En-Gedi / Anna de Vincenz -- Nomad settlement in Palestine during the late Byzantine-early Moslem period / Zeʼev Safrai and Ofer Sion.

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