Table of Contents

1) Introduction (Zeidan Kafafi); 2) Demography of Jerusalem before Islam (Eduard Lipiñski); 3) Jerusalem and the Jebusites (Ulrich Hübner); 4) Names of Jerusalem (Gerrit van der Kooij ); 5) Jerusalem in ancient Egyptian documents (Kenneth A. Kitchen); 6) Jerusalem in the Amarna letters (George Mendenhall); 7) Jerusalem in the Assyrian and Babylonian texts (Wolfgang Röllig); 8) History of excavations in Jerusalem (Henk J. Franken); 9) Jerusalem in the third and second millennia BC (Kay Prag); 10)Jerusalem in the late second millennium and the beginning of the first millennium BC (Margreet Steiner); 11) Jerusalem in the Iron Age (Larry Herr); 12) Jerusalem in the tenth century BCE (Ernst Axel Knauf); 13) Jerusalem in the Hellenistic and Roman periods (David Graf); 14) Jerusalem in the Herodian period 37 BC-AD 70 (Achim Lichtenberger); 15) Aelia Capitolina (Klaus Bieberstein); 16) Byzantine Jerusalem (Robert Schick); 17) Churches in Jerusalem (Michele Piccirillo); 18) Middle Bronze Age II pottery from Jerusalem (1700-1500 BC) (Peter Fischer); 19) Synthesis: the history of Jerusalem before Islam (Zeidan Kafafi)

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Zeidan Kafafi and Robert Schick

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