Studies in archaeology and ancient cultures in honor of Isaac Gilead / edited by Haim Goldfus, Mayer I. Gruber, Shamir Yona, Peter Fabian.

Isaac Gilead : an appreciation / The editors -- The Religious Dimension of Copper Metallurgy in the Southern Levant / Nissim Amzallag -- Neolithic Cult Sites in the Southern Negev, Israel / Uzi Avner, Moti Shem-Tov, Lior Enmar, Gideon Ragolski, Rachamim Shem-Tov, and Omry Barzilai -- A Basket-Handled Teapot from Fazael 2 / Shay Bar -- The Contributions of Early French Scholars to Levantine Prehistory / Ofer Bar-Yosef and François Valla -- The Riddle of the 'Aurignacian' in the Negev: The Lithic Assemblage from Nahal Neqarot in the Central Negev, Israel / Anna Belfer-Cohen and A. Nigel Goring-Morris -- Forging a Link: Evidence for a 'Lost Horizon' : The Late Chalcolithic to EB 1 Transition in the Southern Levant / Eliot Braun -- Unresolved Pottery Neolithic Chrono-Stratigraphic and Chrono-Cultural issues: Comments on the Beginning and the End of the Pottery Neolithic Period / Avi Gopher -- Going Through Customs: Changing Rituals of the Ghassulian Culture of the Southern Levant, ca. 4500-3900 BC / Milena Gošić -- Animal Offerings from the Nawamis Fields and Coeval Habitation Sites in Southern Sinai / Liora Kolska Horwitz -- An Early Pottery Neolithic (Jericho IX) Site East of Tel Nagila / Hamoudi Khalaily, Anastasia Shapiro and Ofer Marder -- Clothes Maketh (Hu)Man: Textile Production in the Southern Levant in the Chalcolithic Period / Janet Levy -- Stylistic Devices and Exegetical Techniques in 'Rewritten Bible' Compositions / Atar Livneh -- Conus Ornaments from Tel Bareqet in an Early Bronze Age Near East Context / Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Sarit Paz and Yitzhak Paz -- Flint Knapping in a Brush Hut: A Case Study from Ohalo II, a 23000 Year-old Camp in the Sea of Galilee / Dani Nadel, Daniel Kaufman, Udi Grinburg and Dan Malkinson -- Middle Palaeolithic Humans in the Levant: An Archaeological Perspective / Avraham Ronen -- The Time-Space Discontinuum: Scale in the Geography and Chronology of Negev Archaeology / Steven A. Rosen -- The Incised Flint Assemblage from Neolithic Beisamoun and its Significance / Danny Rosenberg -- Ceramic Connections and Regional Entities: The Petrography of Late Chalcolithic Pottery from Sites in the Galilee (Israel) / Dina Shalem, Anat Cohen-Weinberger, Bernardo Gandulla and Ianir Milevski -- Communal Bison Hunting in Western North America: Current Understandings and Unresolved Issues / John D. Speth -- Job 40:30-31 and the First Whalers / Oded Tammuz -- More on Early Natufian Building 131 at Eynan (Ain Mallaha), Israel / François R. Valla -- Hatrurim Quarry : A Newly Discovered Production Site of Larnite Bifacial Tools / Jacob Vardi -- The Origin of the Hebrew Word cîcit 'Fringe' / Allan Witztum, Avi Gold and Mayer I. Gruber -- Tel Erani : Reassessing Old Published Records / Yuval Yekutieli -- 'Isaac went out to meditate in the field' (Genesis 24:63) in the Exegesis of Philo of Alexandria and Naphtali Zvi Yehuda Berlin / Elad Filler -- The Nahal Zippori Horizon, Between the Lodian and Wadi Rabah Cultures / Nimrod Getzov, Ianir Milevski and Hamoudi Khalaily -- 'In Green Pastures' [bi-ne'ot deshshe]: Psalm 23 and Song of Songs 5 in the Poetry of Agi Mishol / Eran Viezel -- The Varieties of Vengeance in the Book of Jeremiah / Shamir Yona and Rafael Furman.

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