On Site Identifications Old and New: The Example of Tell el-Hesi
Recent archaeological theorists of the "Interpretive School" emphasize that extracting meaning from ancient finds is a hermeneutic enterprise, a spiral of dialogue between observation and understanding, rather than a traditional scientific enterprise. The authors develop a complex argument...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2001
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2001, Volume: 64, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 24-36 |
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| Summary: | Recent archaeological theorists of the "Interpretive School" emphasize that extracting meaning from ancient finds is a hermeneutic enterprise, a spiral of dialogue between observation and understanding, rather than a traditional scientific enterprise. The authors develop a complex argument, one that fruitfully bridges text and strata, to consider each of the host of possible identities that have been proposed for this key community in the southern Levant. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210818 |