Shechem III: The Stratigraphy and Architecture Of Shechem/Tell Balatah

by Edward F. Campbell, Wright G. R. H.

Overview

This volume presents the stratigraphy and architectural remains of the tell of ancient (biblical) Shechem on the eastern outskirts of the modern municipality of Nablus, in what was at the time of excavation the independent village of Balatah. First identified as an ancient ruin and proposed as ancient Shechem in 1903, the site was excavated by an Austro-German team in the period between 1913 and 1934, and by the Drew-McCormick Archaeological Expedition, later named the Joint Expedition, between 1956 and 1973. Now, 87 years after Ernest Sellin began the dig, and 27 years after the expedition mounted by G. Ernest Wright left the field, this volume sets out to give that sort of portrayal to this mound of ancient cities that began its history at least 4000 years BCE and ended its premodern history in 107 BCE.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897570626
Publisher:	American Schools of Oriental Research
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Series:	Archaeological Reports Series , #6
Pages:	607
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.40(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

Edward F. Campbell is the Professor Emeritus at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.

Table of Contents

	List of Figures	xi
	Acknowledgements	xxi
	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	The Earliest Strata: Chalcolithic/Early Bronze I and Middle Bronze IIA	11
Chapter 2	The Middle Bronze IIB Period	27
Chapter 3	The Middle Bronze IIC Period	105
Chapter 4	The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron I	169
Chapter 5	The Iron Age	235
Chapter 6	The Hellenistic Period	311
	References	343

Editorial Reviews

The two volumes document the 24 strata and associated architectural remains discovered during excavations of the ancient Shechem, now a tell on the eastern outskirts of the modern city of Nablus in what was at the time of excavation the independent village of Balatah. For a variety of reasons, the data has not been published since it was gathered during excavations between 1913 and 1934 by an Austro-German team headed by Ernest Sellin, and the Drew-McCormick Archaeological Expedition, later called the Joint Expedition, between 1956 and 1973 headed by G. Ernest Wright. The period extends from 4,000 to 107 BCE, from Early Bronze I through the Hellenistic Period. The first volume contains text and the second illustrations. They are not indexed. Distributed in the US by David Brown Book Company. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR