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Ruhama Bonfil

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Chapters in books

Bonfil R. (1997) Area A. Pp. 15-176 in A. Ben-Tor, and R. Bonfil (eds.) Hazor V: An Account of the Fifth Season of Excavations, 1968,. Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society and Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University.

Bonfil, R. (2003).
The Middle and Late Bronze Age in Area A - Pottery Typology of the Middle Bronze Age II and the Late Bronze Age (Chapter16); in: Ben-Tor, A., Bonfil, R. and Zuckerman, S. (eds.) (2003), Tel Qashish, A Village in the Jezreel Valley : Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987) (Qedem Reports 5). Jerusalem .

Changes in the Material Culture at Tel Qashish over Time in Comparison with Other Sites in the Jezreel Valley (Chapter 17); in: Ben-Tor, A., Bonfil, R. and Zuckerman, S. (eds.) (2003), Tel Qashish, A Village in the Jezreel Valley : Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987) (Qedem Reports 5). Jerusalem .

Characteristics of Settlement Plans in the Middle Bronze Age II (Chapter 18) . in: Ben-Tor, A., Bonfil, R. and Zuckerman, S. (eds.) (2003), Tel Qashish, A Village in the Jezreel Valley : Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987) (Qedem Reports 5). Jerusalem .


Ben-Tor, A and Bonfil, R. (2003). The Early Bronze Age I - The Stratigraphy of Area B (Chapter 2). in: Ben-Tor, A., Bonfil, R. and Zuckerman, S. (eds.) (2003), Tel Qashish, A Village in the Jezreel Valley : Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987) (Qedem Reports 5) Jerusalem.
The Early Bronze Age II-III - The Stratigraphy of Area B (Chapter 6) and The Stratigraphy of Area A (Chapter 7). in: Ben-Tor, A., Bonfil, R. and Zuckerman, S. (eds.) (2003), Tel Qashish, A Village in the Jezreel Valley : Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987) (Qedem Reports 5) Jerusalem.

The Middle and Late Bronze Ages in Area A - Stratigraphy and Pottery of Area A (Chapter 15) and Tel Qashish in the Middle and Late Bronze Age - Historical Implications (Chapter 19). in: Ben-Tor, A., Bonfil, R. and Zuckerman, S. (eds.) (2003), Tel Qashish, A Village in the Jezreel Valley : Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987) (Qedem Reports 5) Jerusalem.

The Transitional Late Bronze/Iron Age Phase to the Persian Period in Area A: The Transitional Phase LB/Iron Age to the Persian Period in Area A (Chapter 20). in: Ben-Tor, A., Bonfil, R. and Zuckerman, S. (eds.) (2003), Tel Qashish, A Village in the Jezreel Valley : Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987) (Qedem Reports 5) Jerusalem.

The Middle Bronze Age to the Ottoman Period in Area B (Chapter 21). in: Ben-Tor, A., Bonfil, R. and Zuckerman, S. (eds.) (2003), Tel Qashish, A Village in the Jezreel Valley: Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987) (Qedem Reports 5) Jerusalem.

Cohen, S. and Bonfil, R. (2007) The Pottery (Chapter 5) in: Yosef Garfinkel and Susan Cohen (eds.) The Middle Bronze Age IIA Cemetery at Gesher: Final Report, (ASOR Annual 62, American Schools of Oriental Research 2007)

Articles

Garfinkel Y. and Bonfil R. (1990) Graves and Burial Customs of the MBIIA Periodin Gesher, Eretz-Israel 21:132-147

Bonfil, R. (1992) MB II Pithoi in Palestine, Eretz-Israel 23:26-37 (Hebrew).

Ben-Tor, D. and Bonfil, R. (2002) The Scarab of Y'kbhr from Shiqmona reconsidered in: Oren E. D. and Ahituv S. (eds.) Beer-Sheva XV, Aharon Kempinski Memorial Volume:29-55. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, Beer-Sheva

Bonfil, R. and Zarzecki-Peleg (2007) The Palace in the Upper City of Hazor as an Expression of a Syrian Architectural Paradigm, BASOR 348 Pp. 25-47

Bonfil, R. (In press a) A Note on Sanctuaries and Palaces in Proceedings of the Third International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (3 ICAANE): Paris, April 2002, eds. J. C. Margueron, P. de Miroschedji, and J. -P. Thalmann. Winona Lake, in: Eisenbrauns.

Bonfil, R. (in press b) The Middle Bronze Age IIB-C in The Ancient Pottery of Israel and its Neighbors, ed. S. Gitin. W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel Exploration Society and the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Bonfil, R. and Ilan, D. (in press) Pottery of the Middle Bronze Age IIA-IIC. in: S. Gitin (ed.), The Ancient Pottery of Israel and its Neighbors. W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Israel Exploration Society and the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Plans in publications:

Ben-Tor A., Bonfil R., Garfinkel Y., Greenberg R., Maeir A. and Mazar A. (1997). Hazor V: An Account of the Fifth Season of Excavation, 1968. Jerusalem

Ben-Tor, A., Bonfil, R. and Zuckerman, S. (2003), Tel Qashish, A Village in the Jezreel Valley : Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987) Qedem Reports 5. Jerusalem

Ben-Tor A., Zarzecki-Peleg A. and Cohen-Anidjar S. A. (2005). Yoqne'am II, The Iron Age and Persian Period, Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1977-1988), Qedem Reports 6. Jerusalem

Ben-Tor A., Ben-Ami D. and Livneh A. (2005). Yoqne'am III, The Middle and Late Bronze Ages, Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1977-1988), Qedem Reports 7. Jerusalem

Garfinkel Y. and Dag D. (2006). Gesher :a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site in the central Jordan valley, Israel. Berlin : Ex Oriente.

Goren-Inbar N. (1990): Quneitra: A Mousterian Site on the Golan Heights, Qedem 31.

Sharon, I. and Zarzecki-Peleg, A. (2006). Podium Structures with Lateral Access: Ploys of Authority in Royal Architecture in the Iron Age Levant. In: Gitin, S., Wright E. and Dessel, JP (eds.). Confronting the Past: Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of William G. Dever, Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns.

Zarzecki-Peleg, A. Final Report of the Yadin Expedition at Megiddo (Qedem Sereies)