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Shanks and Majewski Receive Award in Israel
BAR Editor Hershel Shanks and BAR Preservation Liaison Georg Majewski received awards in Israel from the Friends of Tel Aviv University’s Institute of Archaeology. Shanks’s award medal contained the inscription, “What was difficult for few he made easy for many.” Professor Seymour Gitin, director of the W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, spoke at the award luncheon on “American Archaeologists in Israel.” Yosef Aviram, Director of the Hebrew University’s Institute of Archaeology and Executive Secretary of the Israel Exploration Society, is the previous recipient of this award.
Collections—A Valuable Source of Scholarly Publications
In this issue of BAR we are continuing to alert our readers to exciting new scholarship published in less accessible volumes. In
In this issue we are introducing another flourishing type of scholarly publication, the collection, distinguished from the festschrift in that it is not gathered together to honor a colleague. The collection is often on a particular theme and frequently contains the edited papers presented at a conference. Examples are the volumes spawned by the 1980 conference in Oxford on the archaeology of Jordan, and by the 1979 International Symposium for Biblical Studies in Tokyo.
Following is a list of particularly relevant articles from eight recently published collections. In the future we will report in BARlines from time to time on new festschriften and collections.
The Jerusalem Cathedra: Studies in the History, Archaeology, Geography and Ethnography of the Land of Israel 3
edited by Lee I. Levine
(Wayne State University Press: Detroit, Michigan; Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute: Jerusalem, Israel, 1983)
Hayim Tadmor, “Some Aspects of the History of Samaria during the Biblical Period”
Daniel R. Schwartz, “Josephus and Philo on Pontius Pilate”
Uriel Rappaport, “John of Gischala in Galilee”
Yohanan (Hans) Lewy, “Julian the Apostate and the Building of the Temple”
The Bible and Its Traditions, A Special Issue of Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXII/3 (Summer 1983)
edited by Michael Patrick O’Connor and David Noel Freedman
(The University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, 1983)
Phyllis Trible, “A Daughter’s Death: Feminism, Literary Criticism, and the Bible”
Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, “Loyalty and Love: The Language of Human Interconnections in the Hebrew Bible”
J. Louis Martyn, “A Law-Observant Mission to Gentiles: The Background to Galatians”
Herbert B. Huffmon, “Babel und Bibel: The Encounter Between Babylon and the Bible”
Carol Meyers, “The Israelite Empire: In Defense of King Solomon”
Aidan Kavanagh, “Scripture and Worship in Synagogue and Church”
The Poet and The Historian—Essays in Literary and Historical Biblical Criticism
edited by Richard Elliott Friedman
(Harvard Semitic Studies 26, Scholars Press: Chico, California 1983)
Richard Elliott Friedman, “The Prophet and the Historian: The Acquisition of Historical Information from Literary Sources”
Frank Moore Cross, “The Epic Traditions of Early Israel: Epic Narrative and the Reconstruction of Early Israelite Institutions”
Alan M. Cooper, “The Life and Times of King David According to the Book of Psalms”
Arnaldo Momigliano, “The Origins of Universal History”
The Bible and Liberation: Political and Social Hermeneutics
edited by Norman K. Gottwald
revised edition of A Radical Religion Reader
(Orbis Books: Maryknoll, New York, 1983)
Bruce J. Malina, “The Social Sciences and Biblical Interpretation”
Norman K. Gottwald, “Sociological Method in the Study of Ancient Israel”
Gerd Theissen, “The Sociological Interpretation of Religious Traditions: Its Methodological Problems as Exemplified in Early Christianity”
Carlos Mesters, “The Use of the Bible in Christian Communities of the Common People”
Frank S. Frick and Norman K. Gottwald, “The Social World of Ancient Israel”
Robert R. Wilson, “Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel”
Phyllis A. Bird, “Images of Women in the Old Testament”
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Robin Scroggs, “The Sociological Interpretation of the New Testament: The Present State of Research”
Luise Schottroff, “Women as Followers of Jesus in New Testament Times: An Exercise in Social-Historical Exegesis of the Bible”
Robert H. Smith, “Were the Early Christians Middle-Class? A Sociological Analysis of the New Testament”
Studies in the Period of David and Solomon and Other Essays, Papers Read at the International Symposium for Biblical Studies, Tokyo, December 5–7, 1979
edited by Tomoo Ishida
(Yamakawa-Shuppansha, Ltd., Tokyo, and Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana: 1982)
Miriam Tadmor, “Female Cult Figurines in Late Canaan and Early Israel: Archaeological Evidence”
Tomoo Ishida, “Solomon’s Succession to the Throne of David—A Political Analysis”
Hayim Tadmor, “Traditional Institutions and the Monarchy: Social and Political Tension in the Time of David and Solomon”
J. Alberto Soggin, “Compulsory Labor under David and Solomon”
William G. Dever, “Monumental Architecture in Ancient Israel in the Period of the United Monarchy”
David Noel Freedman, “Ebla and the Old Testament”
Scripture in Context II—More Essays on the Comparative Method
edited by William W. Hallo, James C. Moyer, Leo G. Perdue
(Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Indiana, 1983)
James C. Moyer, “Hittite and Israelite Cult Practices: A Selected Comparison”
William E. Evans, “An Historical Reconstruction of the Emergence of Israelite Kingship and the Reign of Saul”
Stephen Stohlmann, “The Judaean Exile after 701 B.C.E.”
W. C. Gwaltney, Jr., “The Biblical Book of Lamentations in the Context of Near Eastern Lament Literature”
Essays on the Patriarchal Narratives
edited by A. R. Millard and D. J. Wiseman
(Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Indiana, 1983; Inter-Varsity Press: Leicester, England, 1980)
John Goldingay, “The Patriarchs in Scripture and History”
A. R. Millard, “Methods of Studying the Patriarchal Narratives”
G. J. Wenham, “The Religion of the Patriarchs”
Midian, Moab and Edom: The History and Archaeology of Late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and North-West Arabia
edited by John F. A. Sawyer and David J. A. Clines
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 24
(Department of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, England: 1983)
Khair Yassine, “Social-Religious Distinctions in Iron Age Burial Practice in Jordan”
M. F. Oakeshott, “The Edomite Pottery”
Beno Rothenberg and Jonathan Glass, “The Midianite Pottery”
John F. A. Sawyer, “The Meaning of barzel in the Biblical Expressions ‘Chariots of Iron,’ ‘Yoke of Iron,’ Etc.”
Join a Dig
When was the last time you saw the Milky Way? Join the expedition at Tel Masos and you’ll be able to look up and see a dense canopy of stars from horizon to horizon in a crystal clear desert night sky. Aharon Kempinski of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev invites volunteers to participate in the excavation of an important site from the period of the Israelite Settlement of Canaan. Tel Masos, identified with Biblical Hormah (Numbers 21:1–3), is about 12 miles east of Beer-Sheva in the northern Negev. The site was settled from the 13th to the 11th centuries B.C.
During the 1984 excavation season, August 27 to September 21, the expedition will excavate several four-room houses dating from the 12th to 11th centuries B.C. Volunteers must stay for the entire season. Volunteers will live in the modern dormitories of Ben-Gurion University at Beer-Sheva or in the Beer-Sheva Youth Hostel. Registration fee is $25; room and board will cost $15 per day. Academic credit is available.
For more information, write to Dr. Aharon Kempinski, Department of Archaeology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P. O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
“Sign, Symbol, Script” Travels to Phoenix and Fort Worth
A major traveling exhibition launched from Madison, Wisconsin, in August 1983, traces the development of writing from the first scratches by humans on rocks and bones, through the evolution of the Roman alphabet, to the current rapid technological changes of the computer age. More than 300 artifacts, including Neolithic tokens and hieroglyphic inscriptions, Dead Sea Scroll fragments and tablets from Ugarit, visually depict the history of writing.
“Sign, Symbol, Script” will appear at the Arizona Museum of Science and Technology in Phoenix from May 26 to September 9. Then the exhibit travels to the Museum of Science and History in Fort Worth, Texas, for display from September 22 to December 2.
For details and information on the exhibit’s other scheduled stops in Michigan and Colorado, write to the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1346 Van Hise Hall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706.
Shanks and Majewski Receive Award in Israel
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