The archaeology of Jordan and beyond : essays in honor of James A. Sauer /
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| Imprint: | Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2000. |
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| Description: | xvi, 529 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the archaeology and history of the Levant ; 1 Harvard Semitic museum publications Harvard Semitic Museum publications. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4347092 |
Table of Contents:
- Tributes and Memoirs
- Portrait
- Jim Sauer and ACOR's Springtime / Walter E. Rast
- James A. Sauer and the Development of Archaeological Awareness in Jordan / Raouf Sa'd Abujaber
- Citation from the Royal Hashemite Court
- Granting of the Citation / H. R. H. Prince Raad Bin Zeid
- Letters / Keith Beebe, Adnan Hadidi and John B. Hennessy / [et al.]
- Publications of James A. Sauer
- Essays
- A New Look at Desert Kites / Alison V. G. Betts and Vadim N. Yagodin
- Transjordan and Assyria / Piotr Bienkowski
- An Iconographic Detail from Khirbet al-Mafjar: The Fruit-and-Knife Motif / Ghazi Bisheh
- Petrie's Pilaster Building at Tell el-Hesi / Jeffrey A. Blakely
- The Problem of the Identification of the City on Ras Ibn Hani, Syria / Adnan Bounni
- The Distribution of Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-Century Glazed Wares in Transjordan: A Case Study from the Kerak Plateau / Robin M. Brown
- Investigating Ancient Ceramic Traditions on Both Sides of the Jordan / Douglas R. Clark and Gloria A. London
- An Ostracon in Literary Hebrew from Horvat 'Uza / Frank Moore Cross
- Nelson Glueck and the Other Half of the Holy Land / William G. Dever
- Social and Demographic Implications of Subadult Inhumations in the Ancient Near East / Bruno Frohlich and Donald J. Ortner
- The Canine Conundrum of Ashkelon: A Classical Connection? / Baruch Halpern
- Nabatean Metallurgy: Foundry and Fraud / Philip C. Hammond
- Roman Mummies Discovered at Bahria Oasis / Zahi Hawass
- The Settlement and Fortification of Tell al-'Umayri in Jordan during the LB/Iron I Transition / Larry G. Herr
- Excavating the First Pillar House at Lehun (Jordan) / Denyse Homes-Fredericq
- Old South Arabian Inscriptions in the Harvard Semitic Museum / John Huehnergard
- Metallurgy in Oman during the Early Islamic Period / Moawiyah Ibrahim and Ali Tigani ElMahi
- Exploring the Great Temple at Petra: The Brown University Excavations, 1993-1996 / Martha Sharp Joukowsky
- A Unique PPNC Female Figurine from 'Ain Ghazal / Zeidan Kafafi
- Conceptual Domains, Competence, and Chaine Operatoire in the Levantine Mousterian / Kristopher W. Kerry and Donald O. Henry
- New Nabatean Inscriptions from the 1996 Survey in the Umm el-Jimal Area / Nabil I. Khairy
- Warfare in the Ancient Near East / Philip J. King
- Some Byzantine Pilgrim Flasks in the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Bible Lands Museum / Nancy L. Lapp
- A Corpus of Bone Carvings from the Excavation of the Esbous North Church (Hesban, Jordan) / John I. Lawlor
- Reflections on Archaeology and Development / C. J. Lenzen
- Why a Hedgehog? / Albert Leonard, Jr.
- A Moabite Fortress on Wadi al-Hasa? A Reassessment of Khirbet al-Medeineh / Burton MacDonald
- The North Wall of Aelia Capitolina / Jodie Magness
- Prophecy and Poetry in Modern Yemen / George E. Mendenhall
- Ceramics, Chronology, and Historical Reconstruction / Eric M. Meyers
- Burckhardt-Robinson Features in Nineteenth-Century Maps of the Kerak Plateau / J. Maxwell Miller
- The Defense of Palestine and Transjordan from Diocletian to Heraclius / S. Thomas Parker
- Proto-Urban Jericho: The Need for Reappraisal / Peter J. Parr
- Chronology versus Regionalism in the Early Bronze IV: An Assemblage of Whole and Restored Vessels from the Public Building at Khirbet Iskander / Suzanne Richard
- Return to 'Ain el-Assad (Lion Spring), 1996: Azraq Acheulian Occupation in situ / Gary O. Rollefson
- Environmental and Cultural Factors in the Development of Settlement in a Marginal, Highland Zone / Mitchell S. Rothman
- Terminology and Typology of Carinated Vessels of the Early Bronze Age I-II of Palestine / R. Thomas Schaub
- Chancel Screens from the West Church at Pella of the Decapolis / Robert Houston Smith
- The Late Bronze Age in Northern Jordan in the Light of the Finds at Tell el-Fukhar / John Strange
- Some Towers in Jordan / Henry O. Thompson
- "Archaeology" of the Bible and Judaism in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages / Jeffrey H. Tigay
- Muhammad as Prophet and Mayor: City Planning from the Perspective of the Qur'an, Hadith, and Islamic Law Case Study: Damascus / Kassem Toueir
- Hesban, Amman, and Abbasid Archaeology in Jordan / Donald Whitcomb
- South Arabian Architecture and Its Relations with Egypt and Syria / Ernest Will
- Rectangular Profiled Rims from el-Balu: Indicators of Moabite Occupation? / Udo Worschech.
