Abstract Explanations for the Late Bronze Age crisis and collapse in the eastern
Mediterranean are legion: migrations, predations by external forces, political struggles within …

The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably
was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial …

The history of lake-level changes at the Dead Sea during the Holocene was determined
mainly by radiocarbon dating of terrestrial organic debris. This article reviews the various …

Many of the sediments analysed from Tel Dor (Israel) show structural alterations indicating
that they were exposed to high temperatures. This observation is consistent with the …

A core drilled from the Sea of Galilee was subjected to high resolution pollen analysis for the
Bronze and Iron Ages. The detailed pollen diagram (sample/~ 40 yrs) was used to …

The publication is a synthesis of the results of a study that approaches the problem of
locating the provenance of the Amarna Tablets from a new angle. Through mineralogical …

Three decades of dialogue, discussion, and debate within the interrelated disciplines of Syro-
Palestinian archaeology, ancient Israelite history, and Hebrew Bible over the question of the …

The ancient Mediterranean port city of Ashkelon, identified as “Philistine” during the Iron
Age, underwent a marked cultural change between the Late Bronze and the early Iron Age …

The exodus from Egypt is a focal point of ancient Israelite religion. V ally every kind of
religious literature in the Hebrew Bible-prose nar liturgical poetry, didactic prose, and …

This paper examines the formation of states during the Iron Age of the eastern
Mediterranean, with particular emphasis on the Levantine states of Israel, Judah, Ammon …