The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant

Margreet L. Steiner is an independent scholar in Leiden, The Netherlands. She has, together with Henk Franken, published the results of the large trench of Kenyon's excavations in Jerusalem. For the past thirty years she has participated in or directed excavations in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories. Currently she is co-director of the renewed excavations of tell Abu Sarbut, Jordan. She has published widely on the archaeology of the Levant.Ann E. Killebrew is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies program at the Pennsylvania State University. She has directed or participated in dozens of excavations in Israel, Turkey, and Egypt during the past thirty-five years. Currently she co-directs the Tel Akko Total Archaeology Project in Israel. She is author of numerous publications relating to archaeology of the Levant, including the award-winning book, Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanite, Philistines, and Early Israel 1300 - 1100 B.C.E. (2005).

• LIST OF FIGURES; SECTION 1: ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LEVANT: BACKGROUND AND DEFINITIONS; SECTION 2: THE LEVANT AS THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN EMPIRES: EGYPT, ANATOLIA, MESOPOTAMIA, AND PERSIA; SECTION 3: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD; SUBSECTION 1: THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD; SUBSECTION 2: THE CHALCOLITHIC PERIOD; SUBSECTION 3: THE EARLY AND INTERNEDIATE BRONZE AGES; SUBSECTION 4: THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE; SUBSECTION 5: THE LATE BRONZE AGE; SUBSECTION 6: THE IRON AGE I PERIOD; SUBSECTION 7: THE IRON AGE II PERIOD; INDEX

their contents, the scope of the contributions, and the obvious mastery of the subjects discussed, exceeded my expectations: both Steiner and Killebrew ... are to be congratulated for works that deserve to be on the bookshelf -- or the desk -- of anyone working in the field of, notably, Ancient Near Eastern research.