PALACE AND VILLAGE, PARADISE AND OBLIVION: Unraveling the Riddles of Ramat Raḥel
Tel Ramat Ra?el, located halfway between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, holds the key to understanding much of the political, economic, and social history of Judah during the Iron, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic periods. Yohanan Aharoni’s excavations at the site between 1954 and...
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| Language: | English |
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2011
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2011, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-49 |
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| Summary: | Tel Ramat Ra?el, located halfway between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, holds the key to understanding much of the political, economic, and social history of Judah during the Iron, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic periods. Yohanan Aharoni’s excavations at the site between 1954 and 1962 began the process of unraveling the site’s millennial secrets, but his reports were preliminary, and he left many issues unresolved., In 2005, Oded Lipschits of Tel Aviv University and Manfred Oeming of Heidelberg University began an extended expedition at the site. The two main missions of their project were to complete publication of Aharoni’s excavations (a White-Levy project) and to open up new areas of excavation at the site. The combination of the two missions has enabled their team to challenge Aharoni’s reconstruction of the site and to present an innovative, alternative depiction of the stratigraphy, architecture, and material culture of Ramat Ra?el. This new perception of the site has also served as the basis for a comprehensive reevaluation of the political, social, and economic history of the kingdom of Judah. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5615/neareastarch.74.1.0002 |