Transjordan and the Southern Levant

Benedikt Hensel (Herausgegeben von) Born 1979; 2011 PhD; 2016 Habilitation; 2019-21 positions as Interim Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Archaeology at the universities of Mainz and Zurich; Full Professor of Hebrew Bible at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg and Co-Director of the Hazor excavations/Israel.Jordan Davis (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) Born 1983; 2018-21 research assistant at Ruhr-Universität Bochum; 2021-22 PhD and research assistant at the Universität Zürich; research assistant at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.

• Benedikt Hensel : New Impulses from Archaeology, Cultural Studies and Hebrew Bible Studies on Transjordan in the Context of the Southern Levant and Beyond: An IntroductionPART I: THE IRON AGE. CULTURAL CONTACTS AND GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXTUALIZATIONZachary Thomas : Early Iron Age Polities in the Southern Levant: Methodological Remarks- Katja Weiß : Friendly Aggression: Egypt's Interests in Transjordan between Diplomacy, Trade and Conflict (ca. 1075-525 B.C.)- Quinn Daniels : Inscribing the Northern Kingdom of Israel's Eastern and Southern Interests: The Exodus-Wilderness-Eastern Conquest Tradition- Stephen Germany : Israelite and Judahite Involvement in Transjordan during the Monarchic Period: A Synthesis of the Biblical and Extrabiblical Sources- Jordan Davis : Sihon and the Problem of Israel in Transjordan- Erasmus Gaß : Tribes and Territories in Transjordan: The Tribe of Gad in Moab, and IsraelPART II: THE PERSIAN PERIOD: OVERCOMING A RESEARCH DESIDERATUM, TRACING BIBLICAL TRADITIONS AND THEIR HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDSBenedikt Hensel : Transjordan and Judah from the Babylonian to Hellenistic Periods: Their Cultural, Religious, Economic, and Political Entanglements and Their Impact on the Formation of the Hebrew Bible - Piotr Bienkowski : Transjordan in the Persian Period: The Archaeological Evidence and Patterns of Occupation - Ben Greet : Powerful 'Localisms': Interconnecting Imperial, Regional, and Local Expressions in Persian-Period Glyptic East of the Jordan River - Yigal Levin : Edom in Yehud: How did Postexilic Judeans Imagine Edom?