Erets Yisrael Mehkarim Be-Yediat Ha-Arets va-Atikotiyah Sefer Shelishi Mugash Le-Vinyamin Mazar be-Ma'alot Lo Hamishim Shanah/ Eretz-Israel Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies, Volume Three Dedicated to Professor Benjamin Mazar of his Fiftieth Birthday.

Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society in cooperation with The Hebrew University with the assistance of the Bialik Institute of the Jewish Agency, 1958. Hardbound. Quarto in mildly chipped and edgeworn dust jacket, frontispiece photo, iv, 229, 95 pp., xXvi pp. b/w plates, English language summaries of the articles, b/w photos and drawings, addenda and corrigenda. Slight worming to the endpapers. Very Good-. Item #63832

Articles in Hebrew "Bibliography of Benjamin Mazar," H. Beinart, "Excavation at Teluliot Batashi in the Vale of Sorek," J. Kaplan, "Palestine, Syria and Cyprus in the MB I Period," Ruth Amiran, "Cylinder Seal Impression in the Eastern Mediterranean Area at the End of the Third Millennium B.C.," Ruth Amiran, "An Obsidian Core Found at Kibbutz Kabri," M. Stekelis, "Some Problems of the Statigraphy in Megiddo XX," M. Dothan, "The Fifth Season of Exploration in the Negeb," N. Glueck, "Egyptian and Hyksos Art," J. Leibovitch, "Cult Figurines in the Eastern Plain of Esdraelon and Beth-Shean," N. Tzori, "Philistine Civilization in the Light of Archaeological Finds in Palestine and Egypt," Trude Dothan, "History and Prophetic Vision in a Mari Letter," A. Malamat, "On some Historical References in the Bible," N.H. Tur-Sinai, "The Bearing of Psalm 81 upon the Problem of Exodus," S. H. Loewenstamm, "The Art of the Covenant and the Cherubs," M. Haran, "'The Dial of Ahaz,'" Y. Yadin, "Jachin and Boaz," S. Yeivin, "'Slag' and 'Tin' in the First Chapter of Isaiah," S. Abramski, "The House and Eliakim, a Family of Royal Stewards," H.J. Katzenstein, "Ha-Mah Ha-Kinim Ha-Ba'im Mahamat Avi Bet Rechav," S. Talmon, "The Return from Babylon, its Time and Scope," J. Liver, "En-Dor," Z. Kallai-Kleinmann, "Bet Dagon and Gederoth-Kidron, Elteketh and Ekron," M. Naor, "Tamar and the Roads to Elath," Y. Aharoni, "The Date of the 'Limes Palestinae," M. Avi-Yonah, "Mesa (A Study of Certain Features of Old Hebrew Dialects)," S. Morag, "Some Manifestations of Milra Tendency in Hebrew," I. Yeivin, "The 'Sin of Sargon,'" H. Tadmor, "Some Observations on the Chronology of Khirbet Qumran," B. Kanael, "Excavations at Beth Shearim, 1955," N. Avigad, "The Laws of Idolatry in the Light of Historical and Archaeological Facts in the Third Century," E.A. Urbach, "Beth She'arim in Talmudic Literature," S. Saphrai, "Links between the Jews of the Maghreb and Palestine in the Period of the Geonim," H. Z. Hirschberg, "On the Appointment of R. Abiathar as Gaon during his Father's Lifetime and on the Cave of Machpelah," J. Braslavi, "The City and Duchy of Ascalon in the Crusader Period," J. Prawer, "Broad-Houses in Jewish Religious Art," L.A. mayer, "The Book of Abisha," I. Ben-Zvi.
Articles in English are "Was the Ago of Solomon without Monoumental Art?" W.F. Albright, "Indo-European and Hebrew Epic," C.H. Gordon, "Geographical Problems," G.R Driver, "The Biblical Institution of Deror n the Light of Akkadian Documents," J. Levy, "In Search of Nimrod," E. A. Speiser, "The Problem of the Transition between the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages," G.E. Wright, "Kanes and Nesa: Two Forms of One Anatolian Place Name?" H.G. Güterbock,. "Some Notes on the Early and Middle Bronze Age Strata of Megiddo," K.M. Kenyon, "An Unrecognized Allusion to Kings Pekah and Hoshea of Israel," H.L. Ginsberg, "Love, hate and Fear, Psychological Aspects of Sumerian Culture," S.N. Kramer, "Stela of Ramesses from Beisan," J. Cerny.

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