Ashkelon 1

Introduction and Overview (1985–2006)

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Since 1985, the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, directed by Lawrence E. Stager of Harvard University, has been a leading American archaeological project in Israel. Now, the work of the project is being collected in ten final report volumes published by the Harvard Semitic Museum. The first volume, Introduction and Overview (1985–2006), spans more than 700 copiously illustrated pages, many in full color, and includes subjects ranging from microscopic DNA to monumental architecture.

Ashkelon 9

The Hellenistic Period

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This ninth archaeological report of the Leon Levy Expedition presents the material remains of Ashkelon’s Hellenistic-period occupation. Drawing together contributions from a range of specialists, it adduces the evidence from Ashkelon’s material record to address larger economic, cultural, and political questions of the Hellenistic era.

Ashkelon 3

The Seventh Century B.C.

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The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon continues its final report series with a study of the city destroyed in the campaign of the Babylonian king Nebuchadrezzar in December of 604 B.C. In this era, Ashkelon’s markets linked land routes from the southeast to a web of international Mediterranean merchants, and this volume describes the Iron Age bazaar where shopkeepers sold the goods of Egypt, Greece, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Judah. In another part of the city, a winery produced a homegrown vintage for distribution abroad.

Ashkelon 6

The Middle Bronze Age Ramparts and Gates of the North Slope and Later Fortifications

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From the first gate and rampart in the Middle Bronze Age through mud-brick towers from the Iron Age, these defenses are evidence of how the seaport of Ashkelon was both a political force in the southern Levant and an economic power in the eastern Mediterranean. This volume includes the monumental mud-brick gate of Ashkelon, the shrine of the silver calf, and towers from the time of the Philistines.

The Landfill of Early Roman Jerusalem

The 2013–2014 Excavations in Area D3

Yuval Gadot

“The studies in this volume provide a fascinating window into Early Roman Jerusalem by presenting the results of the meticulous excavation of a massive garbage dump on the southeastern slope of the City of David. The comprehensive and detailed analyses of the various categories of finds—including pottery, coins, stone vessels, glass, animal and fish bones, and wood—indicate the existence of an organized system of rubbish disposal, much of which appears to represent ordinary household waste. These studies therefore add a valuable new dimension to our understanding of daily life in late Second Temple Jerusalem.”—Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

From the Nile to the Tigris

African Individuals and Groups in Texts from the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Mattias Karlsson

Egypt and Mesopotamia, two cradles of civilization, repeatedly came into contact with each other in antiquity. Interaction between Africa and Mesopotamia was particularly close and frequent in the period when the Neo-Assyrian Empire controlled Egypt and confronted the kings of Kush. This book seeks to identify Africans—namely, Egyptians, Kushites, and Libyans—in Neo-Assyrian texts from this period, discussing the presence of Africans in the Neo-Assyrian Empire at both individual/biographic and collective/demographic levels and exploring such concepts as ethnicity, multiculturalism, integration, and assimilation.

Ashkelon 9

The Hellenistic Period

Kathleen J. Birney

This ninth archaeological report of the Leon Levy Expedition presents the material remains of Ashkelon’s Hellenistic-period occupation. Drawing together contributions from a range of specialists, it adduces the evidence from Ashkelon’s material record to address larger economic, cultural, and political questions of the Hellenistic era.

Political Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan

Shlomit Bechar

In press!

“Bechar has undertaken an in-depth study of the ceramics at Hazor and put its assemblage in dialogue with those of surrounding settlements, which will be extremely useful for archaeologists working in the region. This study allows her to make important conclusions—such as the fact that pottery shapes at Tel Arqa in the LB II become less similar to those in the Southern Levant and more similar to those of the Northern Levant. In border zones where allegiances fluctuate, this kind of ceramic shift may represent one of the few available ways to understand political shifts at the time.”—Ellen Morris, author of Ancient Egyptian Imperialism

We are excited to announce the hiring of Annie Spencer, Journals Production Coordinator to the team at PSU Press! Annie joins us after working with Medieval Institute Publications for the past two years while receiving their M.A. in Medieval Studies from Western Michigan University. Welcome to the team, Annie!

Consider submitting your manuscript to Journal of Theological Interpretation or Bulletin for Biblical Research today.

Jews of Iran

A Photographic Chronicle

Hassan Sarbakhshian, Lior B. Sternfeld, and Parvaneh Vahidmanesh

“A remarkable feat—Jews of Iran is a vivid portrayal of the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside Israel, documenting a group rendered invisible by global geopolitics.”—Kamin Mohammadi, author of The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran

The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism

Edited by Ryan P. Hoselton, Jan Stievermann, Douglas A. Sweeney, and Michael A. G. Haykin

“The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism is a pioneering work for its thorough exploitation of primary sources revealing how major Pietist and evangelical figures (and others less well known) approached the Bible—sustaining some traditions from earlier Protestantism, responding in part to the intellectual conventions of the Enlightenment, but also promoting innovations of enduring significance in using Scripture.”—Mark Noll, author of Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction