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The Chalcolithic (or "Copper-Stone Age") is a chrono-cultural period that may have lasted for over a millennium, although the date of its end is somewhat problematic. The earliest phases of this period are associated with pottery that is little different from the pottery of the Latest Neolithic periods (see Late Neolithic Pottery).
The Yarmukian culture was a Pottery Neolithic A (PNA) culture of the ancient Levant. It was the first culture in prehistoric Syria and one of the oldest in the Levant to make use of pottery . The Yarmukian derives its name from the Yarmuk River , which flows near its type site of Sha'ar Hagolan at the foot of the Golan Heights .
Way (of) the Fathers) is an ancient north–south route traversing the land of Israel and the region of Palestine. [1] The modern Highway 60 (Israel-Palestine) follows roughly the route of the Way of the Patriarchs.
The Creation of History in Ancient Israel (Routledge, 1995) Cook, Stephen L., The social roots of biblical Yahwism (Society of Biblical Literature, 2004) Day, John (ed.), In search of pre-exilic Israel: proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (T&T Clark International, 2004) Frevel, Christian, History of Ancient Israel (SBL Press, 2023)
The City of David (Hebrew: עיר דוד, romanized: ʿĪr Davīd), known locally mostly as Wadi Hilweh (Arabic: وادي حلوة), [1] is the name given to an archaeological site considered by most scholars to be the original settlement core of Jerusalem during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
The Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II was the first of this type of inscription found anywhere in the Levant (modern Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria). [1] [2]The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, [3] are the primary extra-Biblical source for understanding of the societies and histories of the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans.
The site represents one of the largest ancient city mounds in Israel, its surface area comprising 120,000 m 2 in size, divided into an "Upper City" (40,000 m 2) and a "Lower City" (80,000 m 2). Archaeological excavations have been conducted at Rehov since 1997, under the directorship of Amihai Mazar.
Bethlehem of Galilee (Hebrew: בֵּית לֶחֶם הַגְּלִילִית, Beit Lehem HaGlilit; lit. "the Galilean Bethlehem") or Bethlehem-in-the-Galilee [2] is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee near Kiryat Tivon , around 10 kilometres north-west of Nazareth and 30 kilometres east of Haifa , it falls under the jurisdiction ...