Towns in ancient Israel and in the southern Levant / C.H.J. De Geus.

Main entry:

Geus, C. H. J. de.

Title & Author:

Towns in ancient Israel and in the southern Levant / C.H.J. De Geus.

Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2003.

Description:

189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Palaestina antiqua ; 10

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction and literature -- Fortifications -- The town gate or gates -- Acropolis and Citadel -- Tripartite pillared buildings -- Houses -- Sanctuaries and temples -- Various presumed or specialized buildings -- Watersystems -- Tombs -- Fields and gardens -- Patterns of settlement -- An Israelite town? -- Town planning and population.

Summary:

Many towns flourished in the Southern Levant during the 9th to 7th centuries BCE. More than a century of excavations of these towns in Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories has resulted in an increased understanding of how such towns functioned and what they looked like. The remains of Megiddo, Samaria or Hazor, for instance, have received numerous visitors. This book aims at summarizing what is now actually known about the architecture of the towns. The reader will be surprised and impressed when he starts to realize the degree of style these rather small towns could have. With this book, the author conducts a virtual city walk through such a town from the later Iron Age in this region. -- |c Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9042912693 (paperback)
9789042912694 (paperback)

Subject:

Cities and towns, Ancient Israel.
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric Israel.
Urbanization Israel History.
Villes antiques Israël.
Colonisation intérieure Types préhistoriques Israël.
Urbanisation Israël Histoire.
11.35 biblical antiquities, archaeology and geography.
15.51 Antiquity.
Cities and towns, Ancient.
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.
Urbanization.
Städtebau
Steden.
Archeologische vondsten.
Urban archaeology Israel.
Geschichte 900 v. Chr.-600 v. Chr.
Israel.
Levante Süd
Ancient history Southern Levant Israel Urbanism

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Palaestina antiqua ; 10.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234323
Call No.: HT114 .G48 2003
Status: Available

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