Table of Contents

Prologue - Jerrold S. Cooper and Glenn M. Schwartz

‘The Contextualization of Near Eastern Art’

Constructing Context: The Gebel el-Arak Knife—Greater Mesopotamian and Egyptian Interaction in the Late Fourth Millennium B.C.E. - Holly Pittman

Art, Empire, and the End of the Late Bronze Age - Betsy M. Bryan

‘The Integration of Archaeological and Textual Data’

Written Documents as Excavated Artifacts and the Holistic Interpretation of the Mesopotamian Archaeological Record - Richard L. Zettler

Toward a New Periodization and Nomenclature of the Archaeology of the Southern Levant - Israel Finkelstein

‘The Technological Revolution in Archaeology and Its Ramifications’

Underwater Archaeology in the Near East: Past, Present, and Future - George F. Bass

Near Eastern Archaeometallurgy: Modern Research and Future Directions - Vincent C. Pigott

‘Philology and the Study of Ancient Literature in the Postmodern Academy’

Sailing to Babylon, Reading the Dark Side of the Moon - Piotr Michalowski

A Search for a New Biblical Hermeneutics: Preliminary Observations - Adele Berlin

Defining Egyptian Literature: Ancient Texts and Modern Literary Theory - Antonio Loprieno

‘From Ebla to Deir ’Alla: New Paradigms for the Early History of Semitic Languages and Scripts’

The Linguistics Classification of Eblaite: Methods, Problems, and Results - Manfred Krebernik

New Directions in the Study of Semitic Languages - John Huehnergard

Semitics: Directions and Re-Directions - Stephen A. Kaufman

‘Ideology, Propaganda, and National Consciousness in the Ancient Near East’

2084: Ancient Propaganda and Historical Criticism - Mario Liverani

Sybil, or the Two Nations? Archaism, Kinship, Alienation, and the Elite Redefinition of Traditional Culture in Judah in the 8th-7th Centuries B.C.E. - Baruch Halpern

Contextualizing Egyptian Representations of Society and Ethnicity - John Baines

William Foxwell Albright: The Man and His Work - Peter Machinist

Epilogue - Robert McC. Adams

Index of Authors