Jerusalem and the Coastal Plain in the Iron Age and Persian Periods

This volume contains the proceedings of an international interdisciplinary workshop held in December 2019 by the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times at Leipzig University. The authors present a variety of studies from the fields of archaeology, history, and biblical studies that focus on the multifaceted relations between Jerusalem and the Mediterranean coast of Israel/Palestine in the period from c. 1200 to 300 BCE. It becomes clear that both regions were connected by a constantly changing economic, cultural, and social exchange.Felix Hagemeyer: Introduction − Aren M. Maeir: Jerusalem and the West – Via Philistia: An Early Iron Age Perspective from Tell es-Safi/Gath − David Ben-Shlomo: Jerusalem, Judah, and Philistia: Links during the Iron Age − Jesse Michael Millek: Impact of Destruction on Trade at the End of the Late Bronze Age in the Southern Levant− Hermann Michael Niemann: Expansion Policy of the Davidic Dynasty: Judah from the Late 10th to the Early 6th Centuries BCE − Christian Locatell/Joseph Uziel/Itzhaq Shai: Border Town and Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Iron Age II Tel Burna and Jerusalem − Dieter Vieweger/Jennifer Zimni: DEI Excavations on the Southwestern Slope of Mount Zion − Yuval Gadot: Jerusalem, the Reign of Manasseh and the Assyrian World Order − Benedikt Hensel: The Ark Narrative(s) of 1 Sam *4:1b-7:1 / 2 Sam 6* between Philistia, Jerusalem, and Assyria: A New Approach for a Historical Contextualization and Literary-Historical Classification − Tilmann Gaitzsch: Tarshish – A Golden West Turning East: A Study on the History of an Iridescent Term − Manfred Oeming: The Spirit of the Book of Nehemiah and the »Language of Ashdod«: Nehemiah 13:23–24 as an Anti-Hellenistic Polemic