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Book SynopsisTo determine the archaeology of difference the studies in this volume draw on textual and material culture. What distinguishes an individual or a group in ancient society? How do issues of gender, ethnicity, social stratification and the view of the 'other' impact individuals, groups, and societal attitudes?
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Setting the Stage
1. The Archaeology of Difference: Setting the Stage C., Thomas McCollough and Douglas R. Edwards
2. Jewish and Muslim Heritage in Europe: The Role of Archaeology in Defending Cultural Diversity, Neil Silberman
Section I Neolithic Through Persian Periods
3. The Emergence of Social Complexity in the Neolithic of the Near East, Ofer Bar-Yosef
4. Gender and Social Hierarchy in the Chalcolithic Period in the Light of the Peqi’in Cave, Israel Zvi Gal, Howard Smithline and Dina Shalem
5. Ethnicity and the Archaeological Record: The Case of Early Israel, William G. Dever
6. From Field Crops to Food: Attributing Gender and Meaning to Bread Production in Iron Age Israel, Carol Meyers
7. Queen or Crone? Gendered Archaeology in an LB Tomb at Gezer, Joe D. Seger
8. No Stelae, No Queens: Two Issues Concerning the Kings of Israel and Judah, Gary A. Rendsburg
9. The Problem of the Other(ed) Woman in Nahum, Julia M. O’Brien
10. Linguistic Variation Emphasized, Linguistic Variation Denied, Raymond F. Person, Jr.
11. Representing the Cushite Other: The Use of Cushite Phenotypes in Numbers 12 and Jeremiah 13:23, Rodney S. Sadler Jr.
Section II Hellenistic Through Byzantine Periods
12. What Sort of Jews Were the Tobiads?, Adam Porter
13. The Relationship Between Galilean Archaeology and Historical Jesus Research, John Dominic Crossan
14. Zum Standort des Tempels, Volkmar Fritz
15. “When I Went to Rome…There I Saw the Menorah…” The Jerusalem Temple Implements During the Second Century c.e., Steven Fine
16. Miqw?’ot and Second Temple Sectarianism, Carol Selkin Wise
17. The Stepped Water Installations of the Sepphoris Acropolis, Katharina Galor
18. Stepped Pools and the Non-Existent Monolithic “Miqveh”, Stuart S. Miller
19. Jewish Ossuaries of the Early Roman Period: Continuity and Change in Death Ritual, Byron R. McCane
20. Attitudes Toward the Dead: Protective Measures Employed Against the Desecration of Tombs, Coffins, and Ossuaries, Rachel Hachlili
21. Khirbet Qana’s Necropolis and Ethnic Questions, Peter Richardson
22. Monumental Changes: Architecture and Culture in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Sepphoris C., Thomas McCollough
23. The Butchers of Sepphoris: Archaeological Evidence of Ethnic Variability, Bill Grantham
24. Sepphoris and the Earliest Christian Congregations, James F. Strange
25. The Lives of Glass-Workers at Sepphoris, Alysia Fischer
26. Two Terracotta Figurine Fragments from the Sepphoris Acropolis, Melissa Aubin
27. The Archaeology of Bethsaida and the Historical Jesus Quest, Rami Arav
28. Caesarea Philippi (Paneas) in the Roman and Byzantine Periods, Vassilios Tzaferis
29. Rabbis, Romans, and Rabies: Religion, Disease, and the “Other” A Case Study, Barbara Geller
30. Celsus of Pergamum: Locating a Critic of Early Christianity, Stephen Goranson
31. Marketing Religious Difference in Late Antique Syria-Palestine: Clay Oil Lamps as Clientele Indicators, Eric C. Lapp
32. “Set the Showbread on the Table Before Me Always” (Exodus 25:30): Artistic Representations of the Showbread Table in Early Jewish and Christian Art, Zeev Weiss
33. Christians Among Jews in En-Gedi, Anna de Vincenz
34. Nomad Settlement in Palestine During the Late Byzantine–Early Moslem Period, Ze’ev Safrai and Ofer Sion
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