כנס: "?From Nomadism to Monarchy"
המכון לארכיאולוגיה
The Annual Aharoni Symposium of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University
From Nomadism to Monarchy?
“The Archaeology of the Settlement Period”
Thirty Years Later
Wednesday, March 15
12:45 Gathering
13:00 Welcome and Introduction Oded Lipschits, Omer Sergi, and Ido Koch (Tel Aviv University)
SESSION 1 | 13:15–14:30
Chair: Ido Koch (Tel Aviv University)
Philistines, Canaanites and Egyptians: The Early 12th Century BCE Revisited Shirly Ben-Dor Evian (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University)
Settlement Oscillations in the Southern Levant in Light of Climate Changes Dafna Langgut (Tel Aviv University)
Notes on Scribal Practices in the Early Iron II David Vanderhooft (Boston College)
14:30 Break
SESSION 2 | 15:00–16:15
Chair: Omer Sergi (Tel Aviv University)
The Book of Josiah or the Book of Joshua? Excavating the Literary History of the Story of the Conquest Cynthia Edenburg (Open University of Israel)
Geographical Observations on the Old North Israelite Tales in Judges Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University)
The Role of the Ark in the Conquest Accounts and in the Book of Samuel Thomas Römer (Collège de France and University of Lausanne)
16:15 Coffee Break
SESSION 3 | 16:45–18:25
Chair: Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University)
Under Hazor’s Shadow: The Upper Jordan Valley in the Iron I Assaf Kleiman (Tel Aviv University)
Sixty Years after Aharoni: A New Look at the Iron I Settlement in the Upper Galilee Ido Wachtel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Early Iron Age in the Northern Coastal Plain (Western Galilee) Gunnar Lehmann (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Canaanites in a Changing World: The Jezreel Valley during the Iron I Eran Arie (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
Thursday, March 16
11:45 Gathering
SESSION 4 | 12:00–13:15
Chair: David Vanderhooft (Boston College)
An Untold Story: The Human-like Figures and the Snake on an Architectural Model from Beth-Shean’s Northern Temple Tallay Ornan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Late Bronze/Iron Age Animal Economy: Continuity vs. Change Lidar Sapir-Hen (Tel Aviv University)
Production Autonomy to Centralization: The Iron I-IIA Transition from a Metallurgical Perspective Naama Yahalom-Mack (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
13:15 Break
SESSION 5 | 13:45–15:00
Chair: Dafna Langgut (Tel Aviv University)
The Iron I Settlement of Tall ZirāꜤa in Northern Jordan: Transitions between the Late Bronze Age and the Iron II Dieter Vieweger (German Protestant Institute of Archaeology Jerusalem and Amman [DEI], University of Wuppertal [BU])
From Communities to Kingdoms across Western Jordan: Tracing Uneven Trajectories of Development Benjamin Porter (University of California, Berkeley)
A False Contrast? On the Possibility of Nomadic Monarchy in the Iron I Arabah (Early Edom) in Light of Recent Research Erez Ben-Yosef (Tel Aviv University)
15:00 Coffee Break
SESSION 6 | 15:30–17:10
Chair: Erez Ben-Yosef (Tel Aviv University)
Societal Transformations in Southwest Canaan during the Late Second Millennium BCE Ido Koch (Tel Aviv University)
Like Frogs out of a Pond: Identity Formation in Early Iron Age Philistia and Beyond Aren Maeir (Bar Ilan University)
The Many Beginnings of Israel: An Archaeological and Historical Perspective from the Central Canaanite Hill Country Omer Sergi (Tel Aviv University)
Were There Israelites? The Demographic, Cultural and Political Change of the Iron I “Highlanders” Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University)
17:10 Break
SESSION 7 | 17:40–19:10
Chair: Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University)
Greetings Leo Corry (Dean, The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University) Ran Barkai (Chair, The Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University) Oded Lipschits (Director, The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University)
Awarding of Scholarships
The Rise of the Israelite Monarchy in Retrospective Nadav Na’aman (Tel Aviv University)
The Rise of Ancient Israel: The Need for Revision on Almost Every Front Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University)
