'Isaac went out to the field': Studies in Archaeology and Ancient Cultures in Honor of Isaac Gilead

Haim Goldfus, Mayer I. Gruber, Shamir Yona, Peter Fabian, Haim Goldfus, Mayer I. Gruber, Shamir Yona, Peter Fabian

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781784918293
• eBook ISBN: 9781784918309
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

'Isaac went out to the field (Genesis 24: 63)' is a collection of 28 articles by 47 authors from research institutions in Israel and around the world honoring Professor Isaac Gilead on the occasion of his 71st birthday. The authors include the honoree's mentors, colleagues, and students. Most of the articles deal with archaeological subjects, especially prehistoric and proto-historic archaeology, which are the focus of the honoree's teaching and research. Reflecting the broad horizons of Gilead's interests, the volume also includes studies in other subjects including the Bible and the ancient Near East, Second Temple literature, the history of biblical exegesis, and the influence of the Bible on contemporary Hebrew Literature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page Hebrew
• Title Page
• Contents Page
• List of Figures
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Isaac Gilead: An Appreciation
• Shamir Yona on behalf of the editors
• Nissim Amzallag
• The Religious Dimension of Copper Metallurgy in the Southern Levant
• Neolithic Cult Sites in the Southern Negev, Israel
• U. Avner et al.: Neolithic Cult Sites in the Southern Negev, Israel
• Uzi Avner, Moti Shem-Tov, Lior Enmar, Gideon Ragolski, Rachamim Shem-Tov, and Omry Barzilai
• A Basket-Handled Teapot from Fazael 2
• S. Bar: A Basket-Handled Teapot from Fazael 2
• Shay Bar
• O. Bar-Yosef and F. Valla: The Contributions of Early French Scholars to Levantine Prehistory
• Ofer Bar-Yosef and François Valla
• The Contributions of Early French Scholars to Levantine Prehistory
• A. Belfer-Cohen and A. N. Goring-Morris: The Riddle of the ‘Aurignacian’ in the Negev
• Anna Belfer-Cohen and A. Nigel Goring-Morris
• The Riddle of the ‘Aurignacian’ in the Negev: The Lithic Assemblage from Nahal Neqarot in the Central Negev, Israel
• E. Braun: Forging A link: Evidence for a ‘Lost Horizon’
• Eliot Braun
• Forging A link: Evidence for a ‘Lost Horizon’ – The Late Chalcolithic to EB 1 Transition in the Southern Levant
• A. Gopher: Unresolved Pottery Neolithic Chrono-Stratigraphic and Crhrono-Cultural issues
• Avi Gopher
• Unresolved Pottery Neolithic Chrono-Stratigraphic and Crhrono-Cultural issues: comments on the beginning and the end of the Pottery Neolithic period
• Going through customs: changing rituals of the Ghassulian culture of the Southern Levant, ca. 4500-3900 BC
• M. Gošić: Going through customs: changing rituals of the Ghassulian culture of the Southern Levant
• Milena Gošić
• Animal offerings from the Nawamis fields and Coeval Habitation Sites in Southern Sinai
• L. Kolska Horwitz: Animal offerings from the Nawamis fields and Coeval Habitation Sites
• Liora Kolska Horwitz
• An Early Pottery Neolithic (Jericho IX) site east of Tel Nagila
• H. Khalaily et al.: An Early Pottery Neolithic (Jericho IX) site east of Tel Nagila
• Hamoudi Khalaily, Anastasia Shapiro and Ofer Marder
• Clothes Maketh Man: Textile Production in the Southern Levant in the Chalcolithic Period
• J. Levy: Clothes Maketh Man: Textile Production in the Southern Levant in the Chalcolithic Period
• Janet Levy
• Atar Livneh
• Stylistic Devices and Exegetical Techniques in ‘Rewritten Bible’ Compositions
• Conus ornaments from Tel Bareqet in an Early Bronze Age Near East context
• D. E. Bar-Yosef Mayer et al.: Conus ornaments from Tel Bareqet in an Early Bronze Age Near East context
• Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Sarit Paz and Yitzhak Paz
• D. Nadel et al.: Flint knapping in a brush hut
• Dani Nadel, Daniel Kaufman, Udi Grinburg and Dan Malkinson
• Flint knapping in a brush hut: a case study from Ohalo II, a 23000 year-old camp in the Sea of Galilee
• A. Ronen: Middle Palaeolithic Humans in the Levant
• Avraham Ronen
• Middle Palaeolithic Humans in the Levant: An Archaeological Perspective
• S. A. Rosen: The Time-Space Discontinuum
• Steven A. Rosen
• The Time-Space Discontinuum: Scale in the Geography and Chronology of Negev Archaeology
• D. Rosenberg: The incised flint assemblage from Neolithic Beisamoun and its significance
• Danny Rosenberg
• The incised flint assemblage from Neolithic Beisamoun and its significance
• Ceramic Connections and Regional Entities: The Petrography of Late Chalcolithic Pottery from Sites in the Galilee (Israel)
• D. Shalem et al.: Ceramic Connections and Regional Entities
• Dina Shalem, Anat Cohen-Weinberger, Bernardo Gandulla and Ianir Milevski
• Communal Bison Hunting in Western North America: Current Understandings and Unresolved Issues
• J. D. Speth: Communal Bison Hunting in Western North America
• John D. Speth
• Job 40:30-31 and the first whalers1
• O. Tammuz: Job 40:30-31 and the first whalers
• Oded Tammuz
• F. R. Valla: More on Early Natufian building 131 at Eynan (Ain Mallaha)
• François R. Valla
• More on Early Natufian building 131 at Eynan (Ain Mallaha), Israel
• Hatrurim Quarry – A Newly Discovered Quarry and Production of Larnite Bifacial Tools
• J. Vardi: Hatrurim Quarry – A Newly Discovered Quarry and Production of Larnite Bifacial Tools
• Jacob Vardi
• A. Witztum et al.: The Origin of the Hebrew Word ṣîṣit ‘Fringe’
• Allan Witztum, Avi Gold and Mayer I. Gruber
• The Origin of the Hebrew Word ṣîṣit ‘Fringe’1
• Tel Erani – Reassessing old published records
• Yuval Yekutieli
• Figure 2. Cactus hedges and parcellation at Tel Erani. A. Cadastral outlines projected on 2006 aerial photograph of Tel Erani. B. Zalman Lifshitz’s cadastral map of ‘Iraq el-Manshiye. (The figure is compiled by the author on the basis of: A. Kiryat-Gat
• Figure 3. Tel Erani – Settlement size in ancient periods and location of excavation areas (Basic map layer adapted from Kempinski and Gilead 1991).
• Figure 4. Area D, location of excavation areas.
• Figure 6. Area D, Deep probes (in grey shades) – Yeivin’s strata VII-XIII, Kempinski and Gilead’s layers C2, D and E.
• Figure 7. Yeivin’s stratum VI, Kempinski and Gilead’s layer C1.
• Figure 8. Yeivin’s stratum V.
• Figure 10. Yeivin’s stratum IV superimposed on stratum V (shaded).
• Figure 9. Yeivin’s stratum IV.
• Figure 12. Yeivin’s stratum III superimposed on stratum IV (shaded).
• Figure 13. Yeivin’s stratum IIc.
• Figure 14. Yeivin’s stratum IIb superimposed on IIc (shaded).
• Figure 15. Yeivin’s stratum IIa superimposed on IIb and IIc (shaded).
• Figure 16. Mudbricks exposed on top of Yeivin’s stratum II, interpreted as remains of a city-wall by Brandl (1989: 383). Note the orientation of the brick-lines.
• Elad Filler
• ‘Isaac went out to meditate in the field’ (Genesis 24:63) in the Exegesis of Philo of Alexandria and Naphtali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
• N. Getzov: The Nahal Zippori Horizon, between the Lodian and Wadi Rabah Cultures
• Nimrod Getzov, Ianir Milevski and Hamoudi Khalaily
• The Nahal Zippori Horizon, between the Lodian and Wadi Rabah Cultures
• Eran Viezel
• ‘In Green Pastures’ [bi-ne’ot deshshe]: Psalm 23 and Song of Songs 5 in the Poetry of Agi Mishol
• Shamir Yona and Rafael Furman
• The Varieties of Vengeance in the Book of Jeremiah