Thursday, September 18, 2014

The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land vol.5, Supplementary volume

from http://members.bib-arch.org/encyclopedia/?PubID=BSBKFA&mqsc=E3779014&utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=BHD+Library%20Explorer%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=E4L915

Picture
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (NEAEHL) provides comprehensive summaries of all major archaeological sites and finds from Israel and Jordan during the past two decades. While the original four-volume NEAEHL was published in 1993, a fifth volume updating the original entries and adding many others was published in 2008 by the Biblical Archaeology Society and the Israel Exploration Society.

Members of the BAS Library now have unlimited access to the fifth volume of this incredible resource. This fully searchable, digital edition of the encyclopedia includes sites from both Israel and Jordan, and covers sites and discoveries relevant to both the New Testament and the Hebrew Bible, as well as excavations from earlier and later periods. Also included are articles on special topics such as Judean Hiding Complexes and Marine Archaeology.

Almost all of the entries are written by the archaeologists who directed the excavations—Amnon Ben-Tor on Hazor; Lawrence Stager on Ashkelon; the late Avraham Biran on Dan; Ephraim Stern on Dor; Ronny Reich, Eilat Mazar and others on Jerusalem; the late Ehud Netzer on Herodium and Masada; David Ussishkin and Israel Finkelstein on Megiddo; Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin on Tel Miqne/Ekron. In all, more than 160 archaeologists contributed entries to this massive work.

Also included is a useful glossary of technical, geographic and architectural terms, as well as valuable appendices, such as chronological tables, lists of rulers and convenient summaries of the various prehistoric and historical eras covered in the encyclopedia.

No comments:

Post a Comment