Nº 13 E. REGEV THE HASMONEANS Ideology, Archaeology, Identity 2013

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01 N. CALDUCH BENAGES / C. M. MAIER, EDS.LOS ESCRITOS

Y OTROS LIBROS SAPIENCIALES2013 – 333 pp., 49 fig. € 33,00

ÍNDICE: N. Calduch-Benages / C. M. Maier: Introducción — 1. En busca de la realidad de lasmujeres: T. Cohn Eskenazi: La vida de las mujeres en el período posexílico — S. Japhet:Nombres de mujeres y perspectiva de género en crónicas — 2. ¿Buenas y malas mujeres?Imágenes femeninas en la tradición sapiencial de Israel: G. Baumann: La figura de la sabiduría:contextos, significados, teología — C. M. Maier: Buenas y malas mujeres en Proverbios y Job:el surgimiento de estereotipos culturales — V. D’Alario: Entre misoginia y valoración: lavisión sobre las mujeres en Qohélet — N. Calduch-Benages: Buenas y malas esposas en ellibro de Ben Sira: ¿una clasificación inofensiva? — 3. Voces de mujeres y metáforas femeninasen los textos poéticos: S. Schroer: Imágenes del antiguo Oriente como clave interpretativa de lametáforas bíblicas — D. Scaiola: Símbolos y metáforas femeninos en el Salterio — U. Bail: Ongendering laments: una lectura de género de los salmos de lamentación — N. C. Lee:Lamentaciones y género en el contexto cultural bíblico — G. Barbiero: Sulamita, la mujer«pacificada» del Cantar de los Cantares — 4. Modelos ambivalentes: las mujeres en los textosnarrativos: M. J. Guevara Llaguno: Rut y Noemí reclaman su vida y su memoria — S. Niditch:Interpretando Ester: categorías, contextos y ambigüedades creativas — I. Gómez-Acebo: Susana,ejemplo de virtud y contrapunto femenino de Daniel.

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HISTOIREDE LA PHÉNICIE2013 – 342 pp. € 23,00

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2PÓRTICO LIBRERÍAS NOVEDADES * ORIENTE ANTIGUO — Septiembre 2013

03 I. FUMADO ORTEGA

CARTAGO FENICIO-PÚNICAArqueología de la forma urbana

2013 – 428 pp., fig., 4 despl. € 39,00ÍNDICE: Introducción —Bases teóricas para el estudio de la forma urbana en Cartago (ss. VIII-II a.C.) — Historiografía arqueológica de Cartago (ss. VIII-II a.C.) — Fuentes arqueológicaspara el estudio de la forma urbana de Cartago en época fenicio-púnica — La forma urbana deCartago desde el s. VIII al II a.C.) — Conclusión — Bibliografía — Índices.

* * *04 A. GRUND / A. KRÜGER / F. LIPPKE, EDS.

ICH WILL DIR DANKENUNTER DEN VÖLKERN

Studien zur israelitischen und altorientalischen GebetsliteraturFestschrift für Bernd Janowski zum 70. Geburtstag

2013 – 770 pp. € 70,75

* * *05 D. KENNEDY

SETTLEMENT AND SOLDIERSIN THE ROMAN NEAR EAST

2013 – 300 pp., 66 fig. € 103,00ÍNDICE: Preface — Part I. The Roman Near East: The Roman near East — Demography, thepopulation of Syria and the census of Q. Aemilius Secundus — Part II. Settlement: The identityof Roman Gerasa: an archaeological approach — The frontier of settlement in Roman Arabia:Gerasa to Umm el-Jimal … and beyond — Water supply and use in the Southern Hauran,Jordan — Part III. Soldiers: The special command of M. Valerius Lollianus — C. VeliusRufus — Legio VI Ferrata, the annexation and early garrison of Arabia — The construction ofa vexillation from the army of Syria and the origin of alae milliariae — The garrisoning ofMesopotamia in the late Antonine and early Severan period — ‘Europaean’ soldiers at theSeveran siege of Hatra — The military contribution of Syria to the Roman imperial army —Two Nabataean and Roman sites in southern Jordan: Khirbet el-Qirana and Khirbet el-Khalde— Addenda.

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06 G. N. KNOPPERS

JEWS AND SAMARITANSThe Origins and History of their Early Relations

2013 – 304 pp. € 42,00ÍNDICE: Preface — Samaritans, Jews, and the Contested Legacy of Classical Israel — The Fallof the Northern Kingdom and the Ten Lost Tribes: A Reevaluation — God and Country: TheRevival of Israelite Religion in Postexilic Samaria — The Fall of the Northern Kingdom as aNew Beginning in Northern Israelite- Southern Israelite Relations — A Distinction without aDifference? Samarian and Judean Cultures during the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods —Ethnicity, Communal Identity, and Imperial Authority: Contextualizing the Conflicts betweenSamaria and Judah in Ezra-Nehemiah — The Torah and “the Place[s] for Yhwh’s Name”:Samarian-Judean Relations in Hellenistic and Maccabean Times — An Absolute Breach?

* * *07 A. J. M. KROPP

IMAGES AND MONUMENTSOF NEAR EASTERN DYNASTS

100 BC-AD 1002013 – 480 pp., 142 fig. € 127,00

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08 J.-C. MARGUERON

CITÉS INVISIBLESLa naissance de l’urbanisme

au Proche-Orient ancienApproche archéologique2013 – 642 pp., lám.col. € 91,50

ÍNDICE: Introduction: Définitions, approche méthodologique et milieu — I. Analyse del’urbanisme des principaux sites: A) Les expériences de fouilles directes: les leçons du terrain:Mari (t. Hariri) — Émar (t. Meskéné) — Citadelle d’Ashtata (t. Faq’ous) — Ugarit (RasShamra) — Larsa (Senkéré) — B) L’urbanisme de quelques villes syro-mésopotamiennes — II.Composantes et aspects de l’urbanisme syro-mésopotamien: Les sites: bases d’une géographieurbaine — La forme: morphologie urbaine — Le nombre: dimensions et tracés —L’aménagement du territoire urbain: les travaux d’implantation de la ville — L’eau et la ville:rivières, canaux, pluie et aménagements urbains — Protéger la ville: enceintes, remparts etforteresses — Les fonctions de la ville: le pouvoir, le sacré, l’économie, les hommes —L’hygiène: l’élimination des déchets — La voirie et ses fonctions multiples — L’entretien de


la ville — La cité, espace divin: l’intervention du spirituel dans la matière urbaine — Unehistoire trois fois millénaire: évolution et stabilité — Conclusion: La première expérienceurbaine de l’humanité.

* * *09 P. MATTHIAE / N. MARCHETTI, EDS.

EBLA AND ITS LANDSCAPEEarly State Formation

in the Ancient Near East2013 – 535 pp. + 27 lám., fig. € 140,40

ÍNDICE: Introduction: Representing the Chora of Ebla, P. Matthiae and N. Marchetti — Part1: Town Archaeology: A Long Journey. Fifty Years of Research on the Bronze Age at TellMardikh/Ebla, P. Matthiae — The Royal Palace. Functions of the Quarters and the Governmentof the Chora, P. Matthiae — Palace vs. Common Glyptic in Early Syrian Ebla and Its Territory,F. Pinnock — Popular Iconographies in a Courtly Environment. Clay Figurines from RoyalPalace G and the Coroplastic of Inner Syria during EB IVA, L. Peyronel — Centralization andRedistribution. The Pottery Assemblage of Royal Palace G, S. Mazzoni — Form and Content.A Preliminary Functional Interpretation of the Storage Jars from Royal Palace G, M. D’Andreaand A. Vacca — Working for the Elites. The Pottery Assemblage of Building P4, N. Marchetti— Part 2. Regional Archaeology: Exploiting Diversity. The Archaeological Landscape of theEblaite Chora, S. Mantellini, M.G. Micale and L. Peyronel — Trends in Village Life. TheEarly Bronze Age Phases at Tell Tuqan, F. Baffi and L. Peyronel — Assembling the Evidence.Excavated Sites Dating from the Early Bronze Age in and around the Chora of Ebla, E. Ascaloneand M. D’Andrea — Regional Approach and Archaeological Surveys in Northern Syria, S.Mantellini — Part 3. Textual Evidence: Defining the Chora of Ebla. A Textual Perspective,M.G. Biga — Distribution and Exchange of Goods in the Chora of Ebla, G. Ferrero — OfPlants and Trees. Crops and Vegetable Resources at Ebla, G. Marchesi — Part 4. Geomorphologyand Remote Sensing: A Land in Its Setting. Remote Sensing Satellite Imagery for theCharacterization of the Eblaite Chora, G. Bitelli, E. Mandanici and L. Vittuari — Analysis ofCORONA Imagery of the Ebla Region, N. Galiatsatos and S. Mantellini — From Wetland toDesert. A Geomorphologic Approach to the Eblaite Chora, L. Cantelli, V.M.L. Martina and V.Picotti — A Thin Basis. The Soil Landscape of Ebla and Tell Tuqan, A. Arnoldus-Huyzendveld— Modern Agriculture in the Ebla Region, P. Rossi Pisa, F. Ventura, and M. Vignudelli —Part 5. Archaeometry and Bioarchaeology: Archaeometrical Analysis of Metal Objects fromRoyal Palace G, A.C. Felici and M. Vendittelli — Archaeometrical Analysis of Pottery Productionat EB III-IVA Ebla and Tell Tuqan, M.L. Santarelli — Archaeometrical Analysis of ArchitecturalComponents of Royal Palace G, M.L. Santarelli and G. Spreafico — Consuming Plants.Archaeobotanical Samples from Royal Palace G and Building P4, C. Wachter-Sarkady —Forests Near and Far. An Anthracological Perspective on Ebla, V. Caracuta and G. Fiorentino— Exploiting Animals. The Zooarchaeological Evidence through the Early Bronze Age atEbla, C. Minniti — Natural Resources, Technology and Manufacture Processes at Ebla. APreliminary Assessment, L. Peyronel and A. Vacca — Just at that Time. 14C Determinations


and Analysis from EB IVA Layers, L. Calcagnile, G. Quarta and M. D’Elia — Conclusions: InSearch of an Explanatory Model for the Early Syrian State of Ebla, P. Matthiae and N. Marchetti.

* * *10 XIAOLI OUYANG

MONETARY ROLE OF SILVERAND ITS ADMINISTRATIONIN MESOPOTAMIA DURING

THE UR III PERIOD (C. 2112-2004 BCE)A Case Study of the Umma Province

2013 – 328 pp., 13 fig., tabl. € 20,80

* * *11 D. T. POTTS, ED.

THE OXFORD HANDBOOKOF ANCIENT IRAN

2013 – xl + 1.021 pp., 166 fig., 16 map. € 126,00ÍNDICE: Introduction — Part I. Background and beginnings: The history of archaeologicalresearch in Iran: A brief survey: A. Mousavi — Key questions regarding the palaeoenvironmentof Iran: M. D. Jones — The Paleolithic of Iran: N. J. Conard & al. — The development andexpansion of a Neolithic way of life: L. R. Weeks — Part II. The Chalcolithic period: TheChalcolithic of northern Iran: B. Helwing — The Chalcolithic in the central Zagros: A.Moghaddam / A. Javanmardzadeh — The Later Village (Chalcolithic) period in Khuzestan:A. Moghaddam — The Chalcolithic in southern Iran: C. A. Petrie — Part III. The BronzeAge: — The Early Bronze Age in northwestern Iran: G. D. Summers — The Bronze Age innortheastern Iran: C. P. Thornton — Luristan and the central Zagros in the Bronze Age: D. T.Potts — Khuzestan in the Bronze Age: J. Álvarez-Mon — Early writing in Iran: J.L. Dahl —The use of Akkadian in Iran: Katrien De Graef — Bronze Age Fars: B. McCall — EasternIran in the Early Bronze Age: H. Pittman — Part IV. The Iron Age: The Late Bronze andEarly Iron Age in northwestern Iran: M. D. Danti — Luristan during the Iron Age: B. Overlaet— The central Alborz region in the Iron Age: A. Mousavi — Linguistic groups in Iran: R.Zadok — Iranian migration: M. Witzel — Assyria and the Medes: K. Radner — Elam in theIron Age: J. Álvarez-Mon — Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia in the early 1st millennium BC:M. Waters — Iron Age southeastern Iran: P. Magee — Part V. The Achaemenid period:Southwestern Iran in the Achaemenid period: R. Boucharlat — Administrative realities: ThePersepolis Archives and the archaeology of the Achaemenid heartland: W. F.M. Henkelman— Avesta and Zoroastrianism under the Achaemenids and early Sasanians: P.O. Skjærvø —Royal Achaemenid iconography: M. B. Garrison — Color and gilding in Achaemenidarchitecture and sculpture: A. Nagel — Eastern Iran in the Achaemenid period: B. Genito —Old Persian: J. Tavernier — Greek sources on Achaemenid Iran: M. Brosius — VI. Seleucid,


post-Achaemenid and Arsacid archaeology and history: Alexander the Great and the Seleucidsin Iran: P. Kosmin — Media, Khuzestan and Fars between the end of the Achaemenids andthe rise of the Sasanians: P. Callieri / A. Askari Chaverdi — Fratarak? and Seleucids: J.Wiesehöfer — The Arsacids (Parthians): S. R. Hauser — Parthian and Elymaean rock reliefs:T. S. Kawami — Arsacid, Elymaean and Persid coinage: K. Rezakhani — Aramaic, Parthianand Middle Persian: S. Haruta — The use of Greek in pre-Sasanian Iran: G. Rougemont —VII. The Sasanian period: Sasanian political ideology: M. R. Shayegan — Sasanian coinage:N. Schindel — Sasanian interactions with Rome and Byzantium: P. Edwell — Sasanian rockreliefs: M. P. Canepa — Kuh-e Khwaja and the religious architecture of Sasanian Iran: S.Ghanimati — Sasanian administation and sealing practices: N. Miri — Luxury silver vesselsof the Sasanian period: K. Masia-Radford — Sasanian textiles: C. Bier — Pre-Islamic Iraniancalendrical systems in the context of Iranian religious and scientific history: A. Panaino —The Islamic conquest of Sasanian Iran: M. Morony.

* * *12 S. REDFORD / N. ERGIN, EDS.

CITIES AND CITADELS IN TURKEYFROM THE IRON AGE TO THE SELJUKS

2013 – x + 346 pp., fig. € 94,00ÍNDICE: Introduction: S. Redford — City and Citadel at Troy from the Late Bronze Agethrough the Roman Period: C. C. Aslan / C. B. Rose — The Neo-Assyrian Citadel City andthe Walled City as Theme in the Visual Representation of Imperialism: M.-A. Ataç — AnIntervening Phenomenon in a Non-Urban Environment: Iron Age Cities in Eastern Anatolia:Ö. Çevik — The Urartian City and Citadel of Ayanis: An Example of Interdependence: A.Çilingiroglu — Landscapes of Power: Neo-Hittite Citadels in Comparative Perspective: T. P.Harrison — The Writing on the Wall: Reviewing Sculpture and Inscription on the Gates ofthe Iron Age Citadel of Azatiwataya (Karatepe-Aslantas): A. Özyar — The Kale at KerkenesDag: An Iron Age Capital in Central Anatolia: G. D. Summers / F. Summers — Gordion asCitadel and City: M. M. Voigt — Sinope and Byzantine Citadels and Fortresses on the BlackSea: J. Crow — The Blachernai Palace and Its Defense: N. Asutay-Effenberger — The Citadelof Byzantine Constantinople: R. Macrides — Mamalik and Mamalik: Decorative andEpigraphic Programs of Anatolian Seljuk Citadels: S. Redford.

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THE HASMONEANSIdeology, Archaeology, Identity

2013 – 340 pp., 10 fig., 17 lám. € 104,00ÍNDICE: Introduction — Hanukkah and the Temple of the Maccabees — The Centrality ofthe Temple in Hasmonean Ideology — Leading the People: Establishing Hasmonean Authority— Hasmonean Kingship in Hellenistic and Jewish Contexts — Hasmonean Coinage as Political


Discourse — Royal Ideology in the Hasmonean Palaces in Jericho — Hasmonean Constructionof the Jewish Collective Identity — Conclusions: Power through Piety.

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THE HOUSE OF PRISONERSSlavery and State in Uruk

During the Revolt against Samsu-Iluna2013 – xx + 444 pp., fig., tabl. € 109,95

* * *15 K. A. YENER, ED.

ACROSS THE BORDERLate Bronze-Iron Age Relationships

between Syria and AnatoliaProceedings of a Symposium Held at the Research Center

of Anatolian Studies, Koç University, IstanbulMay 31-June 1, 2010

2013 – viii + 542 pp., fig. € 106,00ÍNDICE: Introduction: Imperial Demise and Forging Emergent Kingdoms: K. A. YENER —Section A: Excavations in Levantine Turkey and Levantine Syria: New Excavations at Alalakh:The 14th–12th Centuries BC: K. A. YENER — The Late Bronze Age Fortresses at Alalakh:Architecture and Identity in Mediterranean Exchange Systems: M. AKAR — Tayinat in theEarly Iron Age: T. P. HARRISON — Chatal Höyük in the Amuq: Material Culture andArchitecture during the Passage from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age: M. PUCCI— The Crisis of Qatna at the Beginning of the Late Bronze Age II and the Iron Age II SettlementRevival. A Regional Trajectory towards the Collapse of the Late Bronze Age Palace System inthe Northern Levant: D. MORANDI BONACOSSI — Shedding New Light on the ElusiveLate Bronze and Early Iron Ages at Tell ‘Acharneh (Syria): M. FORTIN / L. COOPER —Sabuniye: A Late Bronze-Iron Age Port Settlement on the Northeastern Mediterranean Coast:H. PAMIR — A Re-evaluation of the Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Transitional Period:Stratigraphic Sequence and Plain Ware of Tarsus-Gözlükule: S. YALÇIN — Exploring SirkeliHöyük in the Late Bronze Age and its Interregional Connections: E. KOZAL — The Transitionfrom the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age at Tell Afis, Syria (phases VII-III): F. VENTURI— Section B: Excavations In Eastern Turkey and Eastern Syria: Across Assyria’s NorthernFrontier: Tell Fekheriye at the End of the Late Bronze Age: P. V. BARTL / D. BONATZ —Between the Musku and the Aramaeans: The Early History of Guzana/Tell Halaf: M. NOVÁK— Some Implications of Revised C14 and Dendrochronological Dating for the “Late BronzeLevels” at Tille Höyük on the Euphrates: G. D. SUMMERS — The Late Bronze Age to Early


Iron Age Transition: A Perspective from the Upper Tigris River: T. MATNEY — Neo-HittiteMelid: Continuity or Discontinuity?: M. FRANGIPANE and M. LIVERANI — Pottery as anIndicator of Changing Interregional Relations in the Upper Euphrates Valley. The Case of theLate Bronze-Iron Age Assemblages from Arslantepe/Malatya: F. MANUELLI — NewExcavations at the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Site of Gre Amer on the Garzan River,Batman Province: G. PULHAN / S. R. BLAYLOCK — Section C: Funerary Practices, Textsand the Arts: Funerary Practices and Society at the Late Bronze-Iron Age Transition. A Viewfrom Tell Shiukh Fawqâni and Tell an-Nasriyah (Syria): A. TENU — Working Ivory in Syriaand Anatolia during the Late Bronze-Iron Age: A. CAUBET — Arts and Cross-CulturalCommunication in the Early 1st Millennium: The Syro-Anatolian Contact: S. MAZZONI —The Luwian Inscriptions from the Temple of the Storm-God of Aleppo: J. D. HAWKINS —Qadesh, Sea-Peoples, and Anatolian-Levantine Interactions: K. STROBEL — An Amulet withthe Names of Ramesses II from the Roman Baths at Ankara: H. PEKER.

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Nº 13 E. REGEV THE HASMONEANS Ideology, Archaeology, Identity 2013