Exploring the Narrative: Jerusalem and Jordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages: Papers in Honour of Margreet Steiner [Hardcover]

This volume brings together a number of scholars who use archaeology as a tool to question the sometimes easy assumptions made by historians and biblical scholars about the past. It combines essays from both archaeologists and biblical scholars whose subject matter, whilst differing widely in both geographical and chronological terms, also shares a critical stance used to examine the relationship between 'dirt' archaeology and the biblical world as presented to us through written sources.

This collection honours Margreet Steiner, who used archaeology and pottery analysis to question the assumptions made by historians and biblical scholars about the past. It brings together biblical scholars and archaeologists to examine the relationship between 'dirt' archaeology and the biblical world as presented to us through written sources.

Eveline van der Steenis a Near Eastern archaeologist with a special interest the archaeology of the Southern Levant. She is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, UK.

Jeannette Boertienis an archaeologist in the faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands Her research focuses on archaeological textiles and technological, social and religious aspects of textile production.

Noor Mulder-Hymansis an independent scholar and classical archaeologist.

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Meinders Dijkstra and Karel Vriezen
1. The Assyrian Province of Gilead and the 'Myth of the Empty Land'
Eva Kaptijn,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2. The Late Bronze and Iron Age Cultural Landscape of the Eastern Jordan Vallc-