Table of Contents

List of Figures
Ann E. Killebrew and Margreet L. Steiner: Introduction
Section 1: Archaeology of the Levant: Background and definitions
1: Matthew J. Suriano: Historical geography of the ancient Levant
2: Holger Gzella: Peoples and languages of the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages
3: Thomas Davis: History of research
4: Ilan Sharon: Levantine chronology
Section 2: The Levant as the crossroads between empires: Egypt, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Persia
5: Gregory D. Mumford: Egypt and the Levant
6: Horst Klengel: Anatolia (Hittites) and the Levant
7: Tammi J. Schneider: Mesopotamia (Assyrians and Babylonians) and the Levant
8: Josette Elayi: Achaemenid Persia and the Levant
Section 3: The archaeological record
Subsection 1: The Neolithic period
9: Bill Finlayson: Introduction to the Levant during the Neolithic Period
10: Peter M. M. G. Akkermans: The northern Levant during the Neolithic period: Damascus and Beyond: Neolithic settlement dynamics in Syria and Lebanon
11: A. Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen: The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Neolithic period
12: Alison Betts: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Neolithic period
13: Joanne Clarke: Cyprus during the Neolithic period
Subsection 2: The Chalcolithic period
14: Thomas E. Levy: Introduction to the Levant during the Chalcolithic Period: Regional Perspectives
15: Gassia Artin: The northern Levant during the Chalcolithic period: The Lebanese-Syrian Coast
16: Yorke M. Rowan: The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Chalcolithic period
17: Zeidan A. Kafafi: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Chalcolithic period: Jordan (c. 4500-3500 BC)
18: Edgar J. Peltenburg: Cyprus during the Chalcolithic period
Subsection 3: The Early and Internediate Bronze Ages
19: Raphael Greenberg: Introduction to the Levant during the Early Bronze Age
20: Lisa Cooper: The northern Levant (Syria) during the Early Bronze Age
21: Hermann Genz: The northern Levant (Lebanon) during the Early Bronze Age
22: Pierre de Miroschedji: The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Early Bronze Age
23: Suzanne Richard: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Early Bronze Age
24: Jennifer M. Webb: Cyprus during the Early Bronze Age
25: Harvey Weiss: The northern Levant during the Intermediate Bronze Age: Altered trajectories
26: Kay Prag: The southern Levant during the Intermediate Bronze Age
Subsection 4: The Middle Bronze Age
27: Aaron A. Burke: Introduction to the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age
28: Daniele Morandi Bonacossi: The northern Levant (Syria) during the Middle Bronze Age
29: Hanan Charaf: The northern Levant (Lebanon) during the Middle Bronze Age
30: Susan L. Cohen: The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Middle Bronze Age
31: Stephen J. Bourke: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Middle Bronze Age
32: David Frankel: Cyprus during the Middle Bronze Age
Subsection 5: The Late Bronze Age
33: E. Susan Sherratt: Introduction to the Levant during Late Bronze Age
34: Marta Luciani: The northern Levant (Syria) during the Late Bronze Age: Small kingdoms between the supra-regional empires of the international age
35: Marlies Heinz and Sabina Kulemann-Ossen: The northern Levant (Lebanon) during the Late Bronze Age
36: Nava Panitz-Cohen: The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Late Bronze Age
37: Peter M. Fischer: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Late Bronze Age
38: Louise Steel: Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age
Subsection 6: The Iron Age I period
39: Ann E. Killebrew: Introduction to the Levant during the Transitional Late Bronze Age/Iron Age I and Iron Age I periods
40: Hélène Sader: The northern Levant during the Iron Age I period
41: Ayelet Gilboa: The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Iron Age I period
42: Larry G. Herr: The southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Iron Age I period
43: Maria Iacovou: Cyprus during the Iron Age I period (Late Cypriot IIC IIIA): Settlement Pattern crisis (LC IIC IIIA) to the restructuring (LC IIIB) of its settlement pattern
Subsection 7: The Iron Age II period
44: Margreet L. Steiner: Introduction to the Levant during the Iron Age II period
45: Stefania Mazzoni: The Aramean states during the Iron Age II-III periods
46: María Eugenia Aubet: Phoenicia during the Iron Age II period
47: David Ben-Shlomo: Philistia during the Iron Age II period
48: Ann E. Killebrew: Israel during the Iron Age II period
49: James W. Hardin: Judah during the Iron Age II period
50: Randall W. Younker: Ammon during the Iron Age II period
51: Margreet L. Steiner: Moab during the Iron Age II period
52: Piotr Bienkowski: Edom during the Iron Age II period
53: Maria Iacovou: Cyprus during the Iron Age through the Persian period: From the eleventh century BC to the abolition of the city-kingdoms (c. 300 BC)
54: Jeffrey R. Zorn: The Levant during the Babylonian period
55: Gunnar Lehmann: The Levant during the Persian period
Index

About the Author

Margreet L. Steiner is an independent scholar in Leiden, The Netherlands. She has, together with Henk Franken, published the results of the large trench of Kenyon's excavations in Jerusalem. For the past thirty years she has participated in or directed excavations in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories. Currently she is co-director of the renewed excavations of tell Abu Sarbut, Jordan. She has published widely on the archaeology of the Levant.
Ann E. Killebrew is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies program at the Pennsylvania State University. She has directed or
participated in dozens of excavations in Israel, Turkey, and Egypt during the past thirty-five years. Currently she co-directs the Tel Akko Total Archaeology Project in Israel. She is author of numerous publications relating to archaeology of the Levant, including the award-winning book, Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanite, Philistines, and Early Israel 1300 - 1100 B.C.E. (2005).

Reviews

their contents, the scope of the contributions, and the obvious mastery of the subjects discussed, exceeded my expectations: both Steiner and Killebrew ... are to be congratulated for works that deserve to be on the bookshelf -- or the desk -- of anyone working in the field of, notably, Ancient Near Eastern research.
*Jan P. Stronk, Classical Journal Online*

the Oxford Handbook of theArchaeology of the Levant will certainly be consulted regularly by students and scholars alike.
*Alexander Ahrens, BiOr*

Steiner and Killebrew have delivered exactly what those of us in Biblical Studies needed â an access point for engaging with the world of archaeology as it pertains to the Levant.
*Kurtis Peters, Reviews in Biblical and Early Christian Studies*