Strata — Volume 31 (2013)

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Research Articles

Gershon Galil‘yynlq’ The Oldest Hebrew Inscription from Jerusalem

Nava Panitz-Cohen, Robert A. Mullins and Ruhama BonfilNorthern Exposure: Launching Excavations at Tell Abil el-Qame (Abel Beth Maacah)

David M. JacobsonMilitary Symbols on the Coins of John Hyrcanus I

Yehudah RapuanoThe Pottery of Judea Between the First and Second Jewish Revolts

Michael J. DeckerThe End of the Holy Land Wine Trade

Oren Tal, Itamar Taxel and Ruth E. Jackson-Tal with an appendix by Lidar Sapir-HenKhirbet al-adra: More on Refuse Disposal Practices in Early Islamic Palestine and Their Socio-Economic Implications and Appendix: The Faunal Remains

Stephen Gabriel RosenbergCharles Warren at Airaq Al-Amir in 1867

Ayala Zilberstein and Ariel ShatilNew Finds Dating from the British Mandate from the Tyropoeon Valley: the Givati Parking Lot Excavations near the Dung Gate

Stephen Rosenberg, Reports from Jerusalem 

Summaries of Lectures

Book reviews

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Yohanan Aharoni, Michael Avi-Yonah, Anson Rainey, Ze’ev Safrai and
R. Steven Notley (eds.)
, The Carta Bible Atlas.  Fifth Edition Expanded
and Revised
      (Adrian Curtis)

Avraham Faust, Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation
(Graham Davies)

Yardenna Alexandre, with contributions by Guy Bar-Oz, Ariel Berman and
Noa Raban-Gerstel
, Mary’s Well, Nazareth: The Late Hellenistic to the
Ottoman Periods
      (Richard Freund)

Mayer Gruber, Shmuel Aḥituv, Gunnar Lehmann, and Zipora Talshir (eds),
All the Wisdom of the East: Studies in Near Eastern Archaeology and
History in Honor of Eliezer D. Oren
     (Lester L. Grabbe)

Meir and Edith Lubetski (eds.), New Inscriptions and Seals Relating to the
Biblical World
     (John F. Healey)

Oded Lipschits, Gary N. Knoppers and Manfred Oeming (eds.), Judah and
the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period: Negotiating Identity in an International Context
     (Sandra Jacobs)

Eilat Mazar with Y. Shalev, P. Reuven, J. Steinberg and B. Balogh, The Walls
of the Temple Mount
(2 vols.)     (David M. Jacobson)

Jack Green, Emily Teeter, and John A. Larson (eds.), Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East     (Janice Kamrin)

Chad S. Spigel, Ancient Synagogue Seating Capacities. Methodology, Analysis
and Limits
     (Lee I. Levine)

Mordechai Cogan (ed.), Hayim Tadmor: “With My Many Chariots I have
Gone Up the Heights of Mountains:” Historical and Literary Studies on
Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel
     (Peter Machinist)

Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Food in Ancient Judah: Domestic Cooking in the
Time of the Hebrew Bible
     (Carol Meyers)

Jens Kamlah (ed.), with the assistance of Henrike Michelau, Temple Building
and Temple Cult Architecture and Cultic Paraphernalia of Temples in the Levant
(2.-1. Mill. B.C.E.)
Proceedings of a Conference on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary
of the Institute of Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen
(28th-30th of May 2010)     (William Mierse)

Mordechai Cogan, Bound for Exile. Israelites and Judeans under Imperial Yoke:
Documents from Assyria and Babylonia
     (Alan Millard)

Martin Worthington, Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism     (Alan Millard)

Pau Figueras, The Pagan Image of Greco-Roman Palestine and Surrounding Lands,
(Orit Peleg-Barkat)

Hannah M. Cotton, Leah Di Segni, Werner Eck, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Haggai Misgav, Jonathan Price, Israel Roll and Ada Yardeni (eds.), Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae: Volume 1, Jerusalem, Part 1: 1–704. Part 1 The Hellenistic Period up to the Destruction of the Temple in 70; Part 2: The Roman Period from 70 to the Reign of Constantine; Late Antiquity from Constantine to the
Arab Conquest
     (Tessa Rajak)

Hannah M. Cotton et al., with contributions by Robert Daniel and assistance of  Marfa Heimbach, Dirk Kossmann and Naomi Schneider, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae Vol. II Caesarea and the Middle Coast, 1121–1260     (Tessa Rajak)

Avraham Faust, The Archaeology of Israelite Society in Iron Age II
(Gary A. Rendsburg)

Katerina Galor and Gideon Avni (eds.), Unearthing Jerusalem, 150 years of
Archaeological Research in the Holy City
     (Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg)

Gershon Galil, Ayelet Gilboa, Aren M. Maeir, Danʼel Kahn (eds.), The Ancient
Near East in the 12th–10th Centuries BCE. Culture and History. Proceedings of the
International Conference held at the University of Haifa, 2–5 May, 2010

(Jack M. Sasson)

Joan E. Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea     (David Stacey)

Anthony Frendo, Pre-Exilic Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology:
Integrating Text and Artefact
     (Joan Taylor )

Jodi Magness, The Archaeology of the Holy Land from the Destruction of
Solomon’s Temple to the Muslim Conquest
     (Joan Taylor)

Lester L. Grabbe and Oded Lipschits (eds.), Judah Between East and West:
The Transition from Persian to Greek Rule (ca. 400–200 BCE)
     (H.G.M. Williamson)