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Book SynopsisThis volume celebrates the career of Norma Franklin, an archaeologist who has made important contributions to our understanding of the three key cities of Samaria, Megiddo and Jezreel in the Northern Kingdom of Israel during the Iron Age. The sixteen essays offered by Franklin's colleagues in archaeology and biblical studies are a fitting tribute to the woman in the pith helmet: an indomitable field archaeologist who describes herself as "happiest with complex stratigraphy" and as being dedicated to "killing sacred cows".
Table of ContentsExcavating Jezreel (Poem) Martha Hellander
Introduction: Norma Franklin, Renaissance Woman with a Pith Helmet Sheila Bishop, Deborah Cantrell, Jennie Ebeling, and Ann Stehney
Part One: Jezreel, Zer‘in, And Yizael
Women, Water, and Walkways: Preliminary Findings from the Jezreel Expedition in Light of Biblical and Archaeo-Ethnographic Evidence Deborah Appler, Julye Bidmead, and Marilyn Love
In the Land and in the Dirt: The Value of Field-School Experience for Divinity School Students Tony W. Cartledge
The Secret Life of the Archaeological Field School: The Jezreel Expedition as a Case Study Ian Cipin
Gone to the Dogs: Zer‘in through Western Eyes Jennie Ebeling
Naboth and Moshele: Reading a Biblical Story in Light of the Construction of the Memory of a Modern Martyr Philippe Guillaume and Menachem Rogel
Part Two: The Jezreel Valley
The Rural Hinterland of the Jezreel Valley in the Late Bronze
Age III and Iron Age I: A Petrographic Perspective Eran Arie, Karen Covello-Paran, and Anastasia Shapiro
Gottlieb Schumacher, First Excavator of Armageddon Eric H. Cline
The “Ta‘anakh Winepress” Revisited: Further Evidence of the Middle Bronze Age Wine Industry in the Jezreel Valley Karen Covello-Paran, Nimrod Getzov, and Yotam Tepper
Traditionalism and Transformations in Canaanite Cultic Architecture: A View from Middle Bronze Age Megiddo Matthew Susnow
Part Three: Beyond the Valley
Women Regulate Their Fertility: Proactive and Reactive Aspects Athalya Brenner-Idan
Qumran in the Iron Age, with Cross-Temporal Reflections on the Hasmonean and Early Roman Periods Joan E. Taylor and Shimon Gibson
From Maker’s Mark to Mason’s Mark: Cypriot Mason’s Marks in Their Aegean and Levantine Contexts Louise Hitchcock
A Fourth-Century BCE Chian Stamped Amphora Toe from Tel Akko, Israel Ann E. Killebrew, Gerald Finkielsztejn, Yiftah Shalev, Jane C. Skinner, and Vassiliki E. Stefanaki
Of Shekels and Shackles: A Wadi Sorek Romance ( Judges 16) Jack M. Sasson
The Case of the Enigmatic “Cypro-Phoenician” Juglets in Moab Margreet L. Steiner
Fame and Fortune: Iron Age II Arabian Trade in Scholarly Image and in Reality Yifat Thareani
Contributors
Subject Index
Ancient Sources Index
