The Near East in the southwest : essays in honor of William G. Dever

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Includes bibliographical references and index. ; Biography of William G. Dever -- Students of William G. Dever -- Bronze age rural economic transitions in the Jordan Valley / Steven E. Falconer, Patricia L. Fall, Mary C. Metzger and Lee Lines -- Merenptah's inscription and reliefs and the origin of Israel / Michael G. Hasel --Slouching toward Beersheva : chalcolithic mortuary practices in local and regional context / Alexander H. Joffe -- Four-room structures at late Bronze/Iron I age hill country workstations / Gloria London -- The birth of the ancestors : the meanings of human figurines in Near Eastern neolithic villages / Jonathan B. Mabry -- Pottery production and demand in a middle Bronze age Levantine village : ceramic specialization and rural development / Bonnie Magness-Gardiner -- Israel on the horizon : the Iron I settlement of the Galilee / Beth Alpert Nakhai -- The emergence of Ammon : a view of the rise of Iron age polities from the other side of the Jordan / Randall W. Younker. ; Mode of access: Internet.