The Woman in the Pith Helmet

Jennie Ebeling is an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Evansville in Indiana; she co-directed the Jezreel Expedition with Norma Franklin. Philippe Guillaume joined the Jezreel Expedition after a decade of digging at Megiddo with Norma Franklin.

Excavating Jezreel (Poem) Martha Hellander

Introduction: Norma Franklin, Renaissance Woman with a Pith Helmet Sheila Bishop, Deborah Cantrell, Jennie Ebeling, and Ann Stehney

Part One: Jezreel, Zer‘in, And Yizael

Women, Water, and Walkways: Preliminary Findings from the Jezreel Expedition in Light of Biblical and Archaeo-Ethnographic Evidence Deborah Appler, Julye Bidmead, and Marilyn Love

In the Land and in the Dirt: The Value of Field-School Experience for Divinity School Students Tony W. Cartledge

The Secret Life of the Archaeological Field School: The Jezreel Expedition as a Case Study Ian Cipin

Gone to the Dogs: Zer‘in through Western Eyes Jennie Ebeling

Naboth and Moshele: Reading a Biblical Story in Light of the Construction of the Memory of a Modern Martyr Philippe Guillaume and Menachem Rogel

Part Two: The Jezreel Valley

The Rural Hinterland of the Jezreel Valley in the Late Bronze
Age III and Iron Age I: A Petrographic Perspective Eran Arie, Karen Covello-Paran, and Anastasia Shapiro


Gottlieb Schumacher, First Excavator of Armageddon Eric H. Cline

The “Ta‘anakh Winepress” Revisited: Further Evidence of the Middle Bronze Age Wine Industry in the Jezreel Valley Karen Covello-Paran, Nimrod Getzov, and Yotam Tepper

Traditionalism and Transformations in Canaanite Cultic Architecture: A View from Middle Bronze Age Megiddo Matthew Susnow

Part Three: Beyond the Valley


Women Regulate Their Fertility: Proactive and Reactive Aspects Athalya Brenner-Idan

Qumran in the Iron Age, with Cross-Temporal Reflections on the Hasmonean and Early Roman Periods Joan E. Taylor and Shimon Gibson

From Maker’s Mark to Mason’s Mark: Cypriot Mason’s Marks in Their Aegean and Levantine Contexts Louise Hitchcock

A Fourth-Century BCE Chian Stamped Amphora Toe from Tel Akko, Israel Ann E. Killebrew, Gerald Finkielsztejn, Yiftah Shalev, Jane C. Skinner, and Vassiliki E. Stefanaki

Of Shekels and Shackles: A Wadi Sorek Romance ( Judges 16) Jack M. Sasson

The Case of the Enigmatic “Cypro-Phoenician” Juglets in Moab Margreet L. Steiner

Fame and Fortune: Iron Age II Arabian Trade in Scholarly Image and in Reality Yifat Thareani

Contributors
Subject Index
Ancient Sources Index