Levantine Entanglements

Terje Stordalen is professor of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. Oystein S. LaBianca is a professor of anthropology at Andrews University in Michigan

Preface
A New Format for Writing the History of the Levant: Introduction
to the Volume
Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca

Part I: Levantine Localities and Long-Term Change
1. The Region of the Levant and the Importance of the Local Perspective
Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca
2. Cultural Production in the Iron Age Southern Levant
Terje Stordalen
3. Lenses on Accumulative Cultural Production in the Southern Levant: Toward a Middle Range Interpretive Methodology
Øystein S. LaBianca
4. Local Power and Social Discourse: Villages in Early Globalizations of the Southern Levant
Terje Stordalen

Part II: The Levant through Time: Case Studies
Panel A: Places and Ideologies
Introduction to Panel A
Øystein S. LaBianca
5. Drivers of Accumulative Cultural Production in the Southern Levant: The View from Tall Hisban, Jordan
Øystein S. LaBianca and Jeffrey Hudon, Andrews University
6. Heshbon in the Biblical Record: A History of Remembering Terje Stordalen
7. Place-Making in the Jordanian Madaba Plains: The Contested Space of Tall Ḥesbān and its Village Surroundings
Frode F. Jacobsen, Bergen University College
8. Local Dynamics of Globalization in the Roman Near East: The Case of Palmyra
Eivind Heldaas Seland, University of Bergen
Panel B: Scriptures—Ideology, Practices, and Community
Introduction to Panel B
Terje Stordalen
9. Early Forms of Judaism as a Mixture of Strategies of Cultural Heterogeneity and the Re-embedding of Local Culture in Archaic Globalization
Diana V. Edelman, University of Oslo
10. Dynamics of Power and the Re-Inventing of “Israel” in Persian Empire Judah
Kåre Berge, NLA University College
11. The Production of Authority in Levantine Scriptural Ecologies: An Example of Accumulative Cultural Production
Terje Stordalen
Panel C: Pilgrimage—Localities and Global Discourse
Introduction to Panel C
Terje Stordalen
12. The Production of the Constantinian Holy Land
Øyvind Norderval, University of Oslo
13. The Agency of Women in Curating the Christian Holy Land
Jill E. Marshall, Emory University
14. Local Cult, Transforming Miracles, and Global Discourses: Saint George in Lydda
Christine Amadou, University of Oslo
15. The Infrastructure of Shared Sacred Sites in Hatay, Turkey: Interreligious Dynamics of Saint Veneration in the Northern Levant Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University

Panel D. Polycentrism—Local Communities and Trans-local Formations
Introduction to Panel D
Øystein LaBianca and Terje Stordalen
16. Itinerancy in Manichaean Networks of the Levant and Egypt
Håkon F. Teigen, Independent Scholar
17. Reconstructing Homeland at a Time of Globalizing Change: Peasant Migration in Late Medieval Syria
Bethany J. Walker, University of Bonn
18. Honor, Shame, and Hospitality: The Distribution of Power in the Premodern Levant
Eveline J. van der Steen, Independent Scholar

Concluding Reflections
On a Way Forward for Understanding the Levant
Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca