Livre - The Bible and radiocarbon dating
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Livre
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Levy Thomas Evan 1953 - ...
Higham Tom
Presentation materielle : 1 vol. (XI-450 p.)
Dimensions : 25 cm
Over the past several years, a number of Levantine archaeologists working on the Iron Age (ca. 1200 - 586 BCE) have begun to employ high precision radiocarbon dating to solve a wide range of chronological, historical and social issues. This is revolutionizing traditional « Biblical Archaeology » which over the past several decades has been viewed as parochial. The incorporation of high precision radiocarbon dating methods and statistical modeling into the archaeological « tool box » of the « Biblical archaeologist » is revolutionizing the field. In fact, Biblical archaeology is leading the field of world archaeology in how archaeologists must deal with history, historical texts, and material culture. A great deal of debate has been generated by this new research direction in southern Levantine (Israel, Jordan, Palestinian territories, southern Lebanon & Syria, the Sinai) archaeology. This book takes the pulse of how archaeology, science-based research methods and the Bible interface at the beginning of the 21st century. The book brings together leading archaeologists, Egyptologists, Biblical scholars, radiocarbon dating specialists and other researchers who have embraced radiocarbon dating as a significant tool to test hypotheses concerning the historicity of aspects of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible (hereafter, simply the Bible). Although this is an academic book that will be of great interest to Biblical scholars, archaeologists, Egyptologists, and radiocarbon specialists, the general public will also be interested because of the important issues concerning the historicity of the Bible tackled in this volume. As this book « raises the bar » in how archaeologists tackle historical issues as manifest in the interplay between the archaeological record and text, its interest will go well beyond the « Holy Land. » Thomas E. Levy is Professor of Anthropology and Judaic Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Formerly, the Assistant Director of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (one of the American Schools of Oriental Research) and the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology of the Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, he joined the UCSD faculty in 1992 where he has served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Judaic Studies Program. He has been involved with and served as a principal investigator of several major projects in the Near East including the Jabal Hamrat Fidan project in southern Jordan. Thomas Higham is Deputy Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University. He administers the Rdiocarbon Unit’s archeological dating programmes and is the secretary to the NERC-AHRC Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Dating Service, which provides funding for AMS dating to British archeologists. Research interests revolve around archeological dating using AMS, including the dating of novel sample types and sample pretreatment chemistry.
Preface, p. ix Abbreviations, p. xii I. INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEMS 1. LEVY Thomas E. and HIGHAM Thomas, Introduction: Radiocarbon Dating and the Iron Age of the Southern Levant: Problems and potentials for the Oxford conference, p. 3 2. MAZAR Amihai, The Debate over the Chronology of the Iron Age in the Southern Levant: its history, the current situation, and a suggested resolution, p. 15 3. FINKELSTEIN Israel, The Low Chronology Update: Archeology, history and bible, p. 31 4. SHORTLAND A. J., Shishak, King of Egypt: The challenges of Egyptian calendrical chronology, p. 43 II. SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 5. BRONK RAMSEY Christopher, Improving the Resolution of Radiocarbon Dating by Statistical Analysis, p. 57 6. SHARON Ilan, Ayelet Gilboa, BOARETTO Elisabetta and JULL A.J. Timothy, The Early Iron Age Dating Project: Introduction, methodology, progress report and an update on the Tel Dor radiometric dates, p. 65 III. AROUND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN IN THE IRON AGE 7. MANNING Sturt W., KROMER Bernd, TALAMO Sahra, FRIEDRICH Michael, KUNIHOLM Peter Ian and NEWTON Maryanne W., Radiocarbon Calibration in the East Mediterranean Region: The East Mediterranean Radiocarbon Comparison Project (EMRCP) and the cuurent the state of play, p. 95 8. NEWTON Maryanne W., KUNIHOLM Peter Ian, and WARDLE Kenneth A., A Dendrochronological 14C Wiggle-match for the Early Iron Age of North Greece: A contribution to the debate about this period in the Southern Levant, p. 104 9. SHERATT Sue, High Precision Dating and Archaeological Chronologies: Revisisting an old problem, p. 114 IV. JORDAN IN THE IRON AGE 10. LEVY Thomas E., NAJJAR Mohammad, PLICHT Johannes van der, HIGHAM Thomas and BRUINS Hendrik J., Lowland Edom and the High and Low Chronologies: Edomite state formation, the Bible and recent archeological research in southern Jordan, p. 129 11. HIGHAM Thomas, PLICHT Johannes van der, BRONK RAMSEY Christopher, BRUINS Hendrik J., ROBINSON Mark, and LEVY Thomas E., Radiocarbon dating of the Khirbat-en Nahas site (Jordan) and Bayesian Modelling of the Results, p. 164 12. HARRISON Timothy P.and BARLOW Celeste, Mesha, the Mishor and the Chronology of Iron Age Mādabā, p. 179 V. ISRAEL IN THE IRON AGE 13. MAZAR Amihai, BRUINS Hendrik J., PANITZ-COHEN Navaand PLICHT Johannes van der, Ladder of Time at Tel Rehov: Stratigraphy, archeological context, pottery and radiocarbon dates, p. 193 14. PLICHT Johannes van der and BRUINS Hendrik J., Quality Control of Groningen 14C results from Tel Rehov: Repeatability and intercomparaison of Proportional Gas Counting and AMS, p. 256 15. BRUINS Hendrik J., PLICHT Johannes van der, MAZAR Amihai, BRONK RAMSEY Christopher, MANNING Sturt W., The Groningen Radiocarbon Series from Tel Rehov: OxCal Bayesian computations for the Iron IB-IIA boundary and Iron IIA destruction events, p. 271 16. FINKELSTEIN Israel and PIASETZKY Eli, 14C Results from Megiddo, Tel Dor, Tel Rehov and Tel Hadar: Where do they lead us?, p. 294 17. FINKELSTEIN Israel, High or Low: Megiddo and Rehov, p. 302 18. FRANKLIN Norma, Correlation and Chronology: Samaria and Megiddo Redux, p. 310 19. BRUINS Hendrik J., PLICHT Johannes van der, ILAN David and WERKER Ella, Iron-Age 14C Dates from Tel Dan: A high chronology, p. 323 20. MASTER Daniel, Iron I Chronology at Ashkelon: Preliminary results, p. 337 21. BRUINS Hendrik J. and PLICHT Johannes van der, Desert Settlement through the Iron Age: Radiocarbon dates from Sinai and the Negev Highlands, p. 349 22. ZARZECKI-PELEG Anabel, Trajectories of Iron Age Settlement in North Israel and their Implications for Chronology, p. 367 VI. HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS 23. MÜNGER Stefan, Stamp-seal Amulets and Early Iron Age Chronology: An update, p. 381 24. SCHNIEDEWIND William M., Problems in the Paleographic Dating of Inscriptions, p. 405 25. DEVER William G., Some Methodological Reflections on Chronology and History-Writing, p. 413 26. HALPERN Baruch, David Did It—Others Did Not: The Creation of Ancient Israel, p. 422 VII. CONCLUSION 27. SHERATT Andrew, The view from Mount Nebo, p. 441 Index, p. 445
Contributions issues d'un congrès tenu Issu d'une conférence organisée par l'Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish studies en Jordanie. Bibliogr. à la fin de chaque contribution. - Index
