The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination and Its Consequences

ISBN-13: 9780198841630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 400 str.

Avraham Faust

Recenzje

Biblical descriptions, combined with spectacular archaeological discoveries over the past two centuries, provide a good understanding of the period.

O autorze

Avraham Faust is Professor of Archaeology at the Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University. He is currently directing the excavations at Tel 'Eton in the Judean Shephelah, and the survey in its vicinity, and he is also the director of "The National Knowledge Center on the History and Heritage of Jerusalem and its Environs". His research interests include the archaeology of ancient Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages (biblical archaeology), especially from social and anthropological perspectives, as well as aspects of settlement archaeology, ethnicity, processes of social complexity, and excavations and survey methods and methodology. He has more than 200 publications, covering various aspects of the region's archaeology from the Early Bronze Age to the Byzantine period, with a special focus on Iron Age society.