This volume represents studies on archaeological, textual, and theoretical aspects of urbanism in the ancient Levant during the Iron Age (ca. 1200-600 BCE). In addition, the contributions examine urban-related phenomena in other cultures, regions, and periods, providing a broad overview of evidence for ancient cities in antiquity from both archaeological and textual perspectives.
Many significant finds related to urbanism in the Iron Age Levant have been uncovered in the last decades, warranting synthetic treatments combining these finds with theoretical approaches. Furthermore, the fascinating advances in the theoretical study of ancient urbanism in recent years, have enabled much more complex and multifaceted approaches to the study of ancient cities. These advances have raised many new questions and ideas, and, in some cases, overturned long held assumptions about urbanism and its very definition.
This volume - born out of the conference »Urbanism in the Iron Age Levant and Beyond'« held at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, on September 18-22, 2022 - represents a diverse cross-section of studies on archaeological, textual, and theoretical aspects relating to urbanism in the ancient Levant during the Iron Age (ca. 1200-600 BCE). In addition, the contributions examine urban-related phenomena in other cultures, regions, and periods, providing a broad overview of evidence for ancient cities in antiquity from both archaeological and textual perspectives.
Table of contents:
Shay Bar and Erin Hall: An Iron Age IIA-IIB Administrative Structure from Tel Esur Area D East -
Angelika Berlejung: The Call of the Wall: The Symbolic Meaning of City Walls and Their Reception in the Hebrew Bible -
Jeffrey R. Chadwick: Hebron in Iron Ages I-II: Finds of the American Expedition to Hebron (Tell er-Rumeide) -
Judith E. Filitz: On the Road Again: Processions and Pilgrimages as Two Ways of Ritual Mobility -
Gunnar Lehmann: In Search of the Ancient City in the Southern Levant: Urbanism and Complex Small-Scale Societies during the Second and Early First Millennium BCE -
Yigal Levin: Text and the City: The Urban Geography of Jerusalem as Depicted in Chronicles -
Oded Lipschits: The History of the Area between Ramat Raḥel and Jerusalem during the Hundred Years of Assyrian Rule in Judah -
Aren M. Maeir: Thoughts on the Development of Urbanism in Iron Age Philistia -
Emanuel Pfoh: Ethno-Historical Observations on Urbanism and Socio-Political Complexity in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age II -
Daniel Pioske: The Traces of Other Times: Iron Age Urbanism, Residuality, and Biblical Impressions of the Past -
Itzick Shai: Hierarchical Settlement Pattern on the Western Border of the Kingdom of Judah: A View from Tel Burna -
Yifat Thareani: Contested Identities: Urban Analysis of Some Assyrian Towns in the Provinces -
Wolfgang Zwickel: Settlement Activities in Galilee
Dominik Bonatz: Iron Age Urbanism in the Northern Levant Reconsidered -
Herbert Niehr: Karatepe-Aslantaş: Textual and Archaeological Evidence for the Urbanistic Concept of Azatiwadaya -
Mirko Novák: From Hiyawa to Bīt-Baḫiani: Principles of 'Neo-Hittite' City Planning -
Alexander E. Sollee: Iron Age Urbanism in Neo-Hittite City-States and Neo-Assyrian Provinces: A View from the Lower Town of Tell Ḥalaf
Joachim Bretschneider: The Short-Lived Settlement of Pyla-Kokkinokremos. How Long is 'Short'? - Some Preliminary Considerations -
Andrew T. Creekmore III: A Magnetometry Study of Infrastructure, Structure, and the Construction of Space at Middle Bronze Age Kurd Qaburstan, Iraq -
Jan Driessen: Processions and the Making of the Minoan City -
Manuel Fernández-Götz: Urbanism in the Temperate European Iron Age: An Overview -
Shigeo Yamada: Dūr-Šarrukīn as the Center of World: A Reflection on its City Plan and Ideology
