Recent Publications of Members of the Institute (2009-2010)

Prehistoric Archaeology

Alperson-Afil N., Sharon G., Zohar I., Biton R., Melamed,Y., Kislev M. E., Ashkenazi S., Rabinovich R., Werker E., Hartman G. and Goren-Inbar N. 2009 Spatial orgnaization of hominins activities at the Acheulian Gesher Benot Benot Ya'aqov, Israel. Science 326:1677-1680.

Alperson-Afil, N. and Goren-Inbar, N. 2010 The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov: Ancient Flames and Controlled Use of Fire. Springer, Dordrecht.

Bar-Oz G., Belfer-Cohen A., Meshveliani T., Jakeli N., Matskevich Z . and Bar-Yosef O. 2009. Bear in mind: bear hunting in the Mesolithic of the Southern Caucasus. Archaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 37:15-24.

Bar-Yosef O. and Belfer-Cohen A. 2010. The Levantine Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic. In: E. A. A. Garcea (ed.), South-Eastern Mediterranean People Between 139,000 and 10,000 Years Ago, ed., pp.146-169. Oxbow, Oxford.

Bar-Yosef O., Goring-Morris A. N. and Gopher A. (editors) 2010. Gilgal: Excavations at Early Neolithic Sites in the Lower Jordan Valley. The Excavations of Tamar Noy. ASPR & David Brown/Oxbow, Oakville, CT.

Barzilai O. and Goring-Morris A. N. in press. Nahal Lavan 1021, A PPNB Knapping Site in the Western Negev Dunes. In: E. Healey, S. Campbell and O. Maeda (eds.), The 6th International Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent: Studies in Technology, Environment, Production, and Society (STEPS) (Manchester 2008), pp. 65-74. Berlin: SENEPSE. ex oriente.

Barzilai O., Birkenfeld M. and Crouvi,O. in press. Ramat Rachel - A Palaeolithic site in Jerusalem. Euroasian Prehistory.

Belfer-Cohen A. 2010. Bone tools from the Gilgal sites. In: O. Bar-Yosef, A.N. Goring-Morris and A. Gopher (eds.), Excavations at Early Neolithic Sites in the Lower Jordan Valley. The Gilgal Excavations of Tamar Noy, pp. 165-172. ASPR & David Brown/Oxbow, Oakville.

Belfer-Cohen A. and Bar-Yosef O. 2009. First things first: abstract and figurative artistic expressions in the Levant. In: P. G. Bahn (ed.), An Enquiring Mind. Studies in Honor of Alexander Marshack, pp. 25-37. Oxbow, Oxford.

Belfer-Cohen A. and Goring-Morris A. N. 2009. The Shift from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Upper Palaeolithic: Levantine Perspectives. In: M. Camps and C. Szmidt (eds.), The Mediterranean from 50,000 to 25,000 BP: Turning Points and New Directions. Pp. 87-97. Oxbow, Oxford.

Belfer-Cohen A. and Goring-Morris A.N. 2010. The initial Neolithic in the Near East: Why it is so difficult to deal with the PPNA. Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 40:1-18.

Belfer-Cohen A. and Hovers E. 2010. Modernity, enhanced working memory and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic record in the Levant. Current Anthropology 51: S167-S175.

Belfer-Cohen A. and Goring-Morris A.N. in press. Becoming farmers, the inside story. In: T. D. Price and O. Bar-Yosef (eds.), The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas. Current Anthropology Supplement.

Belfer-Cohen A. and Goring-Morris A.N. in press. The Upper Palaeolithic and Earlier Epi-Palaeolithic of Western Asia (ca. 50-14.5 k calBP). In: A. C. Renfrew & B. G. Bahn (eds.), The Cambridge World Prehistory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Birkenfeld M. and Goring-Morris A.N. in press. A new methodological approach, using GIS Applications, to stratigraphy and spatial analysis at PPNB Kfar HaHoresh. In: E. Healey, S. Campbell and O. Maeda (eds.), The 6th International Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent: Studies in Technology, Environment, Production, and Society (STEPS) (Manchester 2008), pp. 273-285. Berlin: SENEPSE. ex oriente.

Braun D. R. and Hovers E. 2009. Introduction: current issues in Oldowan research. In: E. Hovers and D. R. Braun (eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Oldowan, pp. 1-13. Springer, Dordrecth.

Cytrin-Silverman K. 2009. "Khan al-Zahir - bi Zahir al-Quds!," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 19:149-171.

Cytrin-Silverman K. 2009. The Umayyad mosque of Tiberias," Muqarnas 26: 37-61.

Dubreuil L. and Grosman L. 2009. Evidence of hide-working with ochre at Hilazon Tachtit (Israel): implications for Natufian site function. Antiquity 83: 935-954.

Eshed V., Hershkovitz I. and A. N. Goring-Morris. 2008. A re-evaluation of burial customs in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B in light of paleodemographic analysis of the human remains from Kfar HaHoresh, Israel. Paleorient 34/1: 91-103.

Gaudzinski-Windheuser S., Kindler L., Rabinovich R. and Goren-Inbar N. 2010. Testing heterogeneity in faunal assemblages from archaeological sites. Tumbling and trampling experiments at the early Middle Pleistocene site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (Israel). Journal of Archaeological Science 37:3170-3190.

Goldman-Neuman T. and Hovers E. 2009. Methodological issues in the study of Oldowan raw material selectivity: insights from A. L. 894 (Hadar, Ethiopia). In: E. Hovers and D. R. Braun (eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Oldowan, pp. 71-84. Springer, Dordrecht.

Goren-Inbar N., Sharon,G., Alperson-Afil N. and Laschiver I. 2008. The Acheulian massive scrapers of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov - an associated product of the large cutting tools chaine operatoire. Journal of Human Evolution, 55:702-712.

Goring-Morris A. N. 2009. Two Kebaran occupations near Nahal Soreq, and the reconstruction of group ranges in the Early Epipalaeolithic of the Israeli littoral. Eurasian Prehistory 6/1-2:75-93.

Goring-Morris A.N. and Belfer-Cohen A. 2010. 'Great Expectations', or, the inevitable collapse of the early Neolithic in the Near East. In: M. S. Bandy and J. R. Fox (eds.), Becoming Villagers. Comparing Early Village Societies. Pp. 62-77. Amerind Studies in Archaeology, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Goring-Morris A.N. and Belfer-Cohen A. 2010. Different ways of being, different ways of seeing: changing worldviews in the Near East. In: B. Finlayson and G. Warren (eds.), Landscapes in Transition: Understanding Hunter-Gatherer and Farming Landscapes in the Early Holocene of Europe and the Levant, pp. 9-22. Levant Supplementary Series & CBRL, London.

Goring-Morris A.N. and Belfer-Cohen A. in press. Neolithisation processes in the Levant: the outer envelope. In: T.D. Price and O. Bar-Yosef (eds.), The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas. Current Anthropology Supplement.

Goring-Morris A.N. and Belfer-Cohen A. in press. The Neolithic period in and West of the Rift Valley. In: M. Steiner and A. E. Killebrew (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant (ca. 8000 - 332 BCE). Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Goring-Morris A.N. Belfer-Cohen A. in press. Evolving human/animal interactions in the Near Eastern Neolithic: feasting as a case study. In: G. Aranda & S. Mont (eds.), Commensality Rituals in Prehistoric Societies of Europe and Near East. Oxbow Books, Oxford.

Goring-Morris A.N., Hovers E. and A. Belfer-Cohen 2009. The Dynamics of Pleistocene Settlement Patterns and Human Adaptations in the Levant - An Overview. In: J. J. Shea and D. Lieberman (eds.), Transitions in Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef. Pp. 187-254. ASPR & David Brown/Oxbow, Oakville, CT.

Goring-Morris A.N., Marder O. and Amit D. 2009. Prehistoric Occupations in Me'arat Ha'Sela (Upper Nahal Hever). Mitekufat Haeven - Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 39:1-16.

Grosman L. in press. The Natufian. In: D. Kidd (ed.), The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization Revealed. Global Book Publishing PTY Ltd, Lane Cove, Australia.

Hershman D. and Belfer-Cohen A. 2010. "It's magic!": artistic and symbolic material manifestations from the Gilgal Sites. In: In: O. Bar-Yosef, A.N. Goring-Morris and A. Gopher (eds.), Excavations at Early Neolithic Sites in the Lower Jordan Valley. The Gilgal Excavations of Tamar Noy, pp. 173-204. ASPR & David Brown/Oxbow, Oakville.

Hovers E. 2009. Learning from mistakes: flaking accidents and knapping skills in the assemblage of A. L. 894 (Hadar, Ethiopia). In: K. Schick and N. Toth (eds.), The Cutting Edge: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Human Origins, pp. 137-150. Stone Age Institute, Gosport

Hovers E. 2009. Review of "Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory" by Clive Gamble. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (NS) 16:417-418

Hovers E. 2009. The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh Cave. Oxford University Press, New York.

Hovers E. 2009. The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition: what news? In: M. Camps and P. Chauhan (eds.). Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions: Methods, Theories, and Interpretations, pp. 455-462. Springer, New York.

Hovers E. and D.R. Braun (editors) 2009. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Oldowan. Springer, Dordrecth.

Hovers E. in press. Review of "The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (NS).

Hovers E. and Belfer-Cohen A. in press. Insights into early mortuary practices of Homo. In: S. Tarlow and L. Nilsson-Stutz (eds.), Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Hovers E., Malinsky-Buller A., Goder-Goldberger M. and Ekshtain R. in press. Capturing a moment: identifying short-lived activity locations in Amud Cave, Israel. In: R. Jaeger (ed.), The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in the Near East and Adjacent Regions. ERAUL, Liege.

Kvavadze E., Bar-Yosef O., Belfer-Cohen A., Boaretto E., Jakeli N., Matskevich Z. and Meshveliani T. 2009 30,000-Year-Old wild Fflax fibers. Science 325:5946:1359.

Malinsky-Buller A., Aldjem E. and Yeshurun R. 2009. Bir el-Maksur: a new Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site in the Lower Galilee. Neo-Lithics 2/09: 13-16.

Malinsky-Buller A., Hovers E. and Marder O., in press. Making Time: "Living Floors", "Palimpsests" and site formation processes - a perspective from the open-air Lower Paleolithic site of Revadim Quarry, Israel. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

Marder O., Malinsky-Buller A., Shahack-Gross R., Ackermann O., Ayalon A., Bar-Matthews M., Goldsmith Y., Inbar M., Rabinovich R. and Hovers E. 2010. Archaeological horizons and fluvial processes at the Lower Paleolithic open-air site of Revadim (Israel). Journal of Human Evolution DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.01.007

Martinez-Navarro B. and Rabinovich R. The fossil Bovidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from Gesher Benot Ya'akov, Israel: out of Africa during the Early- Middle Pleistocene transition. Journal of Human Evolution.

Munro N. and Grosman L. 2010. Early evidence (ca. 12,000 B.P.) for feasting at a burial cave in Israel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 107: 15362-15366

Rabinovich R., Gaudzinski-Windheuser S., Kindler L. and Goren-Inbar N. in press The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov: Mammal Taphonomy - The Assemblages of Layers V-5 and V-6. Dordrecht: Springer.

Rabinovich R. and Nadel D. in press. Broken mammal bones: taphonomy and food sharing at the Ohalo II submerged prehistoric camp. Archaeozoology of the Near East. ARC-Publicaties 62, Groningen.

Shaham D., Grosman L. and Goren-Inbar N. . 2010. The red-stained flint crescent from Gesher: new insight into PPNA hafting technology. Journal of Archaeological Science 37:2010-2016.

Sharon G., Alperson-Afil N. and Goren-Inbar N. 2010. Cultural conservatism and variability in the Acheulian sequence of Gesher Benot Ya`aqov. Journal of Human Evolution DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.11.0 12.

Sharon G., Feibel C., Rabinovich R., Harlavan Y., Feraud G., Ashkenazi S. and Alperson-Afil N. 2010. New evidence for the Northern Dead Sea Rift Acheulian. PaleoAnthopology 2010:79-99.

Yamada S., Lili-Tafber C. and Birkenfeld M. in press. Use-wear analysis of flint tools from Bir Safadi and Abu Matar: Preliminary Report. In: I. Gilead (ed.), Bir Safadi & Abu Matar report.

Biblical Archaeology

Ben-Shlomo D. and Garfinkel Y. 2009. Sha'ar Hagolan and new insights on Near Eastern proto-historic urban concepts. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 28:189-209.

Ben-Shlomo D., Hill A.C. and Garfinkel Y. 2009. Feasting between the revolutions: evidence from Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf, Israel. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22:129-150.

Ben-Shlomo D., Hill A.C. and Garfinkel Y. in press. Storage, feasting and burials at Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf. Proceedings of the 7 ICAANE, April 2010, London.

Boaretto E , Gilboa A. and Sharon I. 2009. Radiocarbon Dating. In: M. Kochavi, Y. Gadot and E. Yadin (eds.), Aphek-Antipatris II: Bronze and Iron Age Remains (Area X) of the Upper City of Aphek, pp. 575 -578. Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv (Excavation report).

Eliyahu A., Behar A, Regev L., Shilstein S., Shalev Y. Berg J., Sharon I. and Weiner 2009. Identifying a Roman casting pit at Tel Dor, Israel: integrating field and laboratory research" Journal of Field Archaeology 34: 135 - 151

Freikman M. and Garfinkel Y. 2009. The zoomorphic figurines from Sha'ar Hagolan: hunting magic practices in the Neolithic Near East. Levant 41: 5-17.

Garfinkel Y. 2009. The destruction of cult artifacts and royal inscriptions during the Iron Age. Eretz-Israel 28:100-104 (Hebrew).

Garfinkel Y. 2009. The transition from Neolithic to Chalcolithic in the Southern Levant: the material culture sequence. In: J.J. Shea and D.E. Lieberman (eds.), Transitions in Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef, pp. 325-333. ASPR & David Brown/Oxbow, Oakville, CT.

Garfinkel Y., Ben-Shlomo D. and Kuperman T. 2009. Large-scale storage of grain surplus in the sixth millennium BC: the silos of Tel Tsaf". Antiquity 83:309-325.

Garfinkel Y. and Ganor S. 2009. Khirbet Qeiyafa Vol. 1. The 2007-2008 Excavation Seasons. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem:

Garfinkel Y. 2010. Innovations in the domestic architecture of the Proto-historic period in the Middle East. Qadmoniot 139:12-20 (Hebrew).

Garfinkel Y. 2010. Proto-historic courtyard buildings in the southern Levant. In: G. Dragos (ed.), Neolithic and Chalcolithic Archaeology in Eurasia: Building Techniques and Spatial Organization, pp. 35-41. BAR international 2097. Archeopress, Oxford.

Garfinkel Y. in press. Dance in prehistoric Europe. Documenta Praehistorica 37.

Garfinkel Y. in press. Obsidian distribution and cultural contacts in the southern Levant during the 8th millennium BP. In: N. Balkan-Atli (ed.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped Lithic Industries of the Fertile Crescent, Nigde 2001.

Garfinkel Y. in press. The Levant in the Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods. A. C. Renfrew & B. G. Bahn (eds.), The Cambridge World Prehistory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Garfinkel Y. in press. The pottery of the Chalcolithic Period. In: S. Gitin et al. (eds.), The Pottery of Ancient Israel and its Neighbors. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.

Garfinkel Y. in press. The pottery of the Neolithic Period. In: S. Gitin et al. (eds.), The Pottery of Ancient Israel and its Neighbors. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.

Garfinkel Y. and Ben Shlomo D. 2009. Sha'ar Hagolan Vol. 2 The Architecture and Stratigraphy of a Neolithic Settlement. Qedem. Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Garfinkel Y. and Ben-Shlomo D. in press. 'A journey through time' - a center for prehistory at kibbutz Sha'ar Hagolan. In: I. Hodder (ed.), Proceedings of the TEMPER conference in Rhodes.

Garfinkel Y., Ben Shlomo D. and Korn N. 2010. Sha'ar Hagolan Vol. 3. Symbolic dimensions of the Yarmukian Culture: Canonization in Neolithic Art. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.

Garfinkel Y. and Ganor S. 2010. Khirbet Qeiyafa in survey and in excavations: a response to Y. Dagan. Tel Aviv 37:67-78.

Garfinkel Y., Ganor S. and Hasel M. 2010. The contribution of Khirbet Qeiyafa to our understanding of the Iron Age period. Strata: Bulletin of the Anglo-Israeli archaeological Society 28:39-54.

Gilboa A., Jull T. A. J., Sharon I. and Boaretto E. 2009. Notes on Iron IIA 14C dates from Tell el-Qudeirat (Kadesh Barnea). Tel Aviv 36: 82-94

Gilboa A., I. Sharon I. and Boaretto E. 2009. Tel Dor and the chronology of Phoenician "pre-colonization" stages". In: C. Sagona (ed.), Beyond the Homeland: Markers in Phoenician Chronology. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series, 28), pp. 113-204. Peeters , Leuven.

Marom N. and Zuckerman S. in press. Applying on-site analysis of faunal assemblages from domestic contexts: a case study from The Lower City of Hazor. In: Yasur-Landau A., Ebeling J.and Mazow L. (eds.), Household Archaeology in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant. Leiden and Boston.

Mazar A. and Keel O. 2009. Iron Age seals and seal impressions from Tel Rehov. Eretz Israel 28: 57*-69*.

Mazar A. and Rotem Y. 2009. Tel Beth Shean during the EBIB period: evidence for social complexity in the Late fourth millennium BCE. Levant 41: 131-154.

Ornan T. 2009, Twins: a dangerous pregnancy. Biblical Archaeology Review 5: 57-60.

Ornan T. 2009. A Local imitation of a Neo-Babylonian stamp seal: a tomb in Gelilot near Herzliya. 'Atiqot 62: 1-5.

Ornan T. 2009. In the likeness of man. Reflections on the anthropocentric perception of the divine in Mesopotamian Art. In: B. Nevling Porter (ed.), What is a God? Anthropomorphic and Non-Anthropomorphic Aspects of deity in Ancient Mesopotamia (The Casco Bay Assyriological Institute Transactions 2), pp. 93-151. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake.

Ornan T. 2009. The winged disc as an emblem of major deities in the neo-Assyrian period. In: I. Eph'al and N. Na'aman (eds.), Royal Assyrian Inscriptions: History, Historiography and Ideology - A Conference in Honour of Hayim Tadmor on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, 20 November 2003, pp. 70-96.The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem (Hebrew).

Ornan T. 2010. Divine love: Nana, Ningal and their entourage on a clay plaque. In: W. Horowitz, U. Gabbay and F. Vukosavovi (eds.), A Woman of Valor: Jerusalem Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor Joan Goodnick Westenholz, pp. 115-139. Madrid.

Ornan T. 2010. The figure with the tree-and-horned-animals: a unique bronze statue from Hazor. A. Ben-Tor et al., The ceremonial precinct of canaanite Hazor: new results from the renewed excavations. In: P. Matthiae, F. Pinnock, L. Nigro and N. Marchetti (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, May, 5th-10th 2009, "Sapienza" - Universitat di Roma, vol. 3, Wiesbaden, 524.

Ornan T. in press. "Let Ba'al be enthroned": The date, identification and function of a bronze statue from Hazor. Journal of Near Eastern Studies.

Ornan T. in press. The role of Gold in royal representation: the case of a bronze statue from Hazor. Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 12-16 April, 2010, London. The British Museum & University College London, London.

Ornan T. in press. Covered with gold: the long life of a bronze statue from Hazor. In: A. Mazar et al. (eds.), Eretz-Israel, Amnon Ben-Tor Volume, Jerusalem (Hebrew).

Ornan T. in press. Humbaba, the bull of heaven and the contribution of images to the reconstruction of the Gilgamesh epic. In: H.-U. Steymans (ed.), Gilgamesch - Bilder eines Helden: Ikonographie und Uberlieferung von Motiven im Gilgamesch Epos (OBO 242), pp.173-203, 333-344. Fribourg and Gottingen.

Sharon I. 2009. Ashlar construction at Dor: four comments on the state of research. Eretz Israel 29: 362-382 (Hebrew).

Sharon I., Gilboa A. and Boaretto E. 2009. The Iron Age chronology of the Levant: the state-of-research at the 14C dating project, spring 2006". In: L. L. Grabbe (ed.), Israel in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIA (c. 1250-850 BCE): vol. 1 The Archaeology.

Sharon I., Gilboa A. and Shalev Y. 2009. Tel Dor - 2005. Excavation and Surveys in Israel.

Sharon I., Gilboa A. and Shalev Y. 2009. 2009. Tel Dor - 2006. Excavation and Surveys in Israel.

Sharon I., Gilboa A. and Shalev Y. 2010. Tel Dor - 2007-8. Excavation and Surveys in Israel.

Sharon I., Gilboa A., Stewart A., Weiner S., Bloch-Smith E., Killebrew A. E., Martin S. R., Koenig H.A., Goldman T., Stern E. 2010. Tel Dor - 2000, 2002, 2003. Excavation and Surveys in Israel.

Zuckerman S., 2009. The last days of a Canaanite kingdom: a view from Hazor. In: C. Bachuber and Roberts, G. R. (eds.), Forces of Transformation: The End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean. Themes from the Ancient Near East (BANEA Publication Series no. 1.), pp. 100-107. Oxbow Books, Oxford.

Zuckerman S. in press. "Hazor once..": ruin Ccults in Iron I Hazor". In: N. Naamn and I. Finkelstein (eds.), Studies in Late Bronze and Iron Ages - Presented toDavid Ussishkin.

Zuckerman S. in press. "Hazor", "Yoqneam", "Tel Qashish", "Tel Qiri". The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. Abingdon Press, Tennessee

Zuckerman S. in press. "The city, its gods will return there…": towards an alternative interpretation of Hazor's acropolis in the Late Bronze Age. Journal of Near Eastern Studies.

Zuckerman S., Ben-Shlomo D., Mountjoy P. and Mommsen H. 2009. The provenance of Mycenaean pottery in northern Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 409-416.

Zuckerman S. , Esudri-Ziv A. and Cohen-Weinberger A. 2009. Production centers and distribution patterns of KKW in the Southern Levant: a typological and petrographic perspective. Tel-Aviv 36: 135-80.

Classical Archaeology

Di Segni L., Hirshfed Y., Patrich J. and Talgam R. (editors). 2009. Man Near a Roman Arch. Studies Presented to Prof. Yoram Tsafrir. Jerusalem.

Leibner U. 2009. Settlement and demography in Late Roman and Byzantine eastern Galilee. In: A.S. Levine and P. Pellegrini (eds.), Settlements and Demography in the Near East in Late Antiquity. In: L. Di Segni, Y. Hirschfeld, J. Patrich and R. Talgam (eds.), Man Near a Roman Arch: Studies Presented to Prof. Yoram Tsafrir, pp.14-28. Jerusalem (Hebrew).

Leibner U. 2009. Settlement patterns in the eastern Galilee: implications regarding the transformation of rabbinic culture in late antiquity'. In: L. I. Levine and D. R. Schwartz (eds.), Jewish Identities in Antiquity: Studies in Memory of Menaham Stern.

Leibner U. 2010. Arts and crafts, manufacture and production. In: Hezser (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine, pp. 264-296. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Leibner U. 2010. Excavations at Khirbet Wadi Hamam (Lower Galilee): the synagogue and the settlement. Journal of Roman Archaeology 23: 220-238.

Leibner U. and Miller S. 2010.A figural mosaic in the synagogue at Khirbet Wadi Hamam, Journal of Roman Archaeology 23: 239-264.

Leibner U. in press. Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Galilee: Archaeological Survey of the Eastern Galilee. Mohr Siebeck, Tubingen.

Liebowitz H. and Yellin J. 2009. Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of two vessels from Tel Yin'am. Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 25:103-118.

Patrich J. 2009. 538 BCE - 70 CE: The temple (Beyt HaMiqdash) and its mount. In: O. Grabar and B.Z. Kedar (eds.), Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade, pp. 37-71. Jerusalem.

Patrich J. 2009. Herodian entertainment structures. In: D.M. Jacobson and N. Kokkinos (eds.), Herod and Augustus. [Papers Presented at the IJS Conference, 21st-23rd June 2005, Leiden], pp. 181-213, 455-467. Boston.

Patrich J. 2009. On the date Caesarea was proclaimed a Roman colony. In: J. Geiger, H.M. Cotton and G. Stiebel (eds.), Israel's Land. Papers Presented to Israel Shatzman on his Jubilee, pp. 135-156. Raanana (Hebrew).

Patrich J. 2009. The pre-Herodian temple: reassessing the House of the Laver and the House of Utensils of the Temple Scroll. Revue Biblique 116/:505-526.

Patrich J. 2009. Le monachisme autour de la mer Morte: l'Archeo-thema. Revue d'archeologie et d'histoire 2:52-55.

Patrich J. 2010. Studies in the Archaeology and History of Caesarea Maritima - Caput Iudaeae, Metropolis Palaestinae. Collected Essays. Brill Publishing House).

Patrich J. in press. Caesarea in transition: the archaeological evidence from the southwest zone (areas CC, KK, NN. In: K.G. Holum and H. Lapin (eds.), The Near East Under Transition. The University of Maryland.

Patrich J. in press. Caesarea in the time of Eusebius. In: S.Inowlocki-Meister and C. Zamagni (eds.), Reconsidering Eusebius: A Fresh Look at his Life, Work and Thought [International Research Seminar. Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Etude des Religions et de la Laicite, Universite libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, March 3, 2008].

Patrich J. in press. Excavations in Areas CC, KK and NN. In: Y. Porath, E. Ayalon, A. Sasson and A. Izdarechet (eds.), Amnon Kidron Festschrift (Hebrew).

Patrich J. in press. On the proclamation of Caesarea as a Roman colony. In: J. Patrich (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology and History of Caesarea Maritima. Collected Essays.

Patrich J. in press. Roman hippo-stadia: The "hippodrome" of Gerasa reconsidered in light of the Herodian hippo-stadium of Caesarea Maritima. Aram 20.

Patrich J. in press. Some comments on the wealthy people of Caesarea in the Byzantine period: the literary sources and the archaeological finds. In: Y. Porath, E. Ayalon, A. Sasson and A. Izdarechet (eds.), Amnon Kidron Festschrift (Hebrew).

Patrich J. in press. The impact of the Muslim conquest on monasticism in the desert of Jerusalem", Continuites de l'occupation entre les periodes byzantine et abbasside au Proche-Orient, viie-ixe siecles [Colloque Intrenationale ProcheA] Orient, Paris, 18-20 Octobre 2007:Oct. 20, 2007].

Patrich J. in press. The location of the second temple and the layout of its Court's gates and chambers: a new proposal. In: K. Galor and G. Avni (eds.), The Jerusalem Perspective: 150 Years of archaeological Research.

Patrich J. in press. The Praetoria at Caesarea Maritima. Imperium. Wissenschaftliches [Kolloquium im LWL-Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Munster am 28. und 29. April 2008].

Patrich J. in press. The theatre of Caesarea. In: Y. Porath, E. Ayalon, A. Sasson and A. Izdarechet (eds.), Amnon Kidron Festschrift (Hebrew).

Patrich J. in press. The temples of Caesarea. In: Y. Porath, E. Ayalon, A. Sasson and A. Izdarechet (eds.), Amnon Kidron Festschrift (Hebrew).

Weiss Z. 2009. Between Rome and Byzantium: pagan motifs in synagogue art and their place in the Judaeo-Christian controversy. In: L. I. Levine and D. R. Schwartz (eds.), Jewish Identities in Antiquity: Studies in Memory of Menahem Stern, pp. 367-390. Mohr Siebeck, Tobingen

Weiss Z. 2009. Mosaic art in fifth-century CE Sepphoris: iconography, style, and the possible identification of a local workshop. In: L. Di Segni, Y. Hirschfeld, J. Patrich and R. Talgam (eds.), Man Near a Roman Arch: Studies Presented to Prof. Yoram Tsafrir, pp. 88-99. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem (Hebrew).

Weiss Z. 2009. Stratum II at Hammath Tiberias: reconstructing its access, internal space, and architecture. In: Z. Rodgers et al. (eds.), A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne, pp. 321-342. Brill, Leiden.

Weiss Z. 2009. The mosaics of the Nile Festival building at Sepphoris and the legacy of the Antiochene tradition. In: K. Kogman-Appel and M. Meyer (eds.), Between Judaism and Christianity: Pictorials Playing on Mutual Grounds, pp. 9-23. Brill, Leiden.

Weiss Z. 2010. Burial practices in Beth She'arim and the question of dating the patriarchal necropolis. In: Z. Weiss, O. Irshai, J. Magness, and S. Schwartz (eds.), "Follow the Wise" (B Sanhedrin 32b): Studies in Jewish History and Culture in Honor of Lee I. Levine, pp. 207-231. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake:

Weiss Z. 2010. "Sepphoris (Sippori), 2009," Israel Exploration Journal 60: 98-107.

Weiss Z. 2010. Theaters, hippodromes, and amphitheaters in ancient Palestine. In: C. Hezser (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine, pp. 623-640. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Weiss Z. 2010. Trends and contact between communities in Sepphoris of late antiquity: recent research. In: D.M. Gwynn and S. Bangert (eds.), Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity (Late Antique Archaeology 6, pp. 167-188. Brill, Leiden.

Weiss Z. in press. Buildings for mass entertainment in the cities of the Decapolis. Aram.

Weiss Z. in press. Mosaic art in ancient Sepphoris: between East and West. In: M. Sahin (ed.), La mosaique greco-romaine XI. Bursa.

Weiss Z. in press. From Roman temple to Byzantine church: a preliminary report on Sepphoris in transition. Journal of Roman Archaeology.

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M. Bietak and O. Goldwasser (editors). In press. The Challenge of the Hyksos - Cultural Interference in New Kingdom Egypt: Proceedings of the Vienna Conference 6 (2003). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

David A. 2009. Egyptian 20th dynasty wall paintings from Tel Beth-Shean. In: A. Mazar and N. Panitz-Cohen (eds.), Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean, 1989-1996. Volume III, The 13th - 11th centuries BCE (Areas S and N), pp. 706-713. The Hebrew University and the Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.

David A. 2009. Review of Vomberg, P. & Witthuhn, O., Hieroglyphenschlussel. Bibliotheca Orientalis 66: 430-431.

David A. 2009. The clay cobras: Ramesside household cult or apotropaic device? In: A. Mazar and N. Panitz-Cohen (eds.), Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean, 1989-1996. Volume III, The 13th - 11th centuries BCE (Areas S and N), pp. 556-560. The Hebrew University and the Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.

David A. 2010. The Legal register of Ramesside private Law Instruments. GOF IV. Reihe Egypten 38. Classification and Categorization in Ancient Egypt 7. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.

David A. 2010. Un dossier testamentaire provenant d'archives privees? Naunakhte et la langue du testament a l'epoque ramesside. In: P. Piacentini and C. Orsenigo 9eds.), Egyptian Archives: Proceedings of the First Session of the International Congress Egyptian Archives / Egyptological Archives (Milano, September 9-10, 2008) (Quaderni di Acme 111), pp. 71-82. Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario/Monduzzi Editore, Milano

David A. in press. Les chants d'amour Egyptiens et l'influence d'un genre semitique. In: M. Bietak and O. Goldwasser (eds.), The Challenge of the Hyksos - Cultural Interference in New Kingdom Egypt: Proceedings of the Vienna Conference 6 (2003). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

David A. in press. The Sound of the magic flute in legal and religious registers of the Ramesside period: some common features of two "ritualistic languages". In: R. Kratz and A. Hagedorn (eds.), Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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Gabbay U. 2009. Deciphering cuneiform texts through modern and ancient conceptions of literal meaning. In: O.-T. Venard (ed.), Le sens litteral des Ecritures, , pp. 161-169. Paris.

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Gabbay U. 2010. The Ancient Mesopotamian sistrum and its references in cuneiform literature: the identification of the sem and the meze. In: I.L Finkel and R. Dumbrill (eds.), ICONEA 2008: Proceeding of the International Conference of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology, pp. 23-28. London.

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Gabbay U. 2010. The King of the Demons: Pazuzu, Bagdana and Asmedai. In: W. Horowitz, Gabbay U. and Vukosavovic F.(eds.), A Woman of Valor: Jerusalem Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Joan Goodnick Westenholz (Biblioteca del Proximo Oriente Antiguo 8), pp. 57-72. Madrid.1

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Gabbay U. in press. The Balag instrument and its role in the cult of ancient Mesopotamia. In: J. Goodnick-Westenholz, Y. Maurey and E. Seroussi (eds.), Sounds from the Past: Music in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World (Yuval - Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre 8). Jerusalem.

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Goldwasser O. 2010. How the alphabet was born from hieroglyphs. Biblical Archaeology Review 36: 40-53.

Horowitz W. 2009. Babylonian wisdom literature and the Marduk cycle: preliminary thoughts. The Journal of The History of Ancient Civilizations 24:39-51.

Horowitz W. and Oshima T. 2010. Hazor 16: another administrative docket from Hazor. Israel Exploration Journal 60.

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Wasserman N. 2010. 'And the earth was revealed in all Its beauty': remarks on the literary traditions of paradise and creation of the world in ancient Mesopotamia and in the Bible. In: R. Elior (ed.), A Garden Eastward in Eden. Traditions of Paradise, pp. 71-80. Jerusalem (Hebrew).

Wasserman N. 2010. From the notebook of a professional exorcist. In: D. Shehata et al. (eds.), Von Guttern und Menschen. Beitrage zu Literatur und Geschichte des Alten Orients. Festschrift fur Brigitte Groneberg (Cuneiform Monographs 41), pp. 329-349.

Wasserman N. 2010 (2008). On Leeches, dogs, and gods in Old Babylonian medical incantations. Revue d'Assyriologie 102:71-88.

Wasserman N. 2010. The enclitic particle -mi within the framework of Old Babylonian epistemic modality - a new understanding. Babel und Bibel 4 (Proceedings of RAI 53): 787-799.

Wasserman N. in press. A field purchase contract from Nippur dated to the reign of Warad-S?n. Fs. NN.

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Wasserman N. in press. Most Probably: Epistemic Modality in Old Babylonian, (Languages of the Ancient Near East 3), Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake.

Wasserman N. in press. Sprichworter: Akkadisch / Sumerisch. In: M.P. Streck (ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archaologie. Berlin/New York.

Wasserman N. and Streck M.P. in press. Dialogues and riddles: three Old Babylonian wisdom texts. Iraq.