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| List of figures | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Acco: city with a view | |
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| Achziv: the city of cemeteries | |
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| 'Ai (et-Tell): if et-Tell is "'Ai," the conquest of Joshua isn't | |
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| Aphek (Ras el-Ain): the city of palaces | |
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| Arad: from ancient Canaanite city to Judean "temple" | |
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| Aroer (in Judah): where did David really go? | |
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| Ashdod: home of the "Ashdoda" | |
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| Ashkelon: home of the Middle Bronze Age silver calf and a Persian dog cemetery | |
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| Azekah: where the fire went out | |
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| Beersheba: an Iron Age II Judean town "museum" | |
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| Bethel (Tell Beitin): no golden calf: yet | |
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| Bethlehem: was Jesus really born here? | |
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| BethSaida: from the lost and found department: an Iron Age city reappears | |
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| Beth-Shean: why is there a "cigar-shaped" coffin in this place? | |
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| Beth-Shemesh: of mice and (Philistine) men | |
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| Beth-Zur: a forgotten outpost of Judah? | |
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| Caesarea Maritima: Herod's city by the sea | |
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| Caesarea Philippi (Banias): the magnificent palace of Agrippa II | |
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| Capernaum: of fishermen and gold coins | |
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| Chorazin: did the curse really work? | |
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| Damascus: a very old city where Paul almost got himself killed | |
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| Dan (Tel): Massebot and "high places": the gods of Dan | |
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| Ekron/Tel Miqne: Philistine capital of the olive oil industry | |
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| Far'ah, Tell el- (North) - biblical Tirzah?: is there a wall of "separation"? | |
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| Far'ah, Tell el- (South): an important city, but probably not Sharuhen | |
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| Gath (Tell es-Safi): "tell it not in Gath" | |
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| Gezer: did Solomon build a city gate here? | |
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| Gibeah (Tell el-Ful?): concubines beware! | |
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| Gibeon (el-Jib): a huge water well and a deadly "game" | |
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| Halif, Tell (Rimmon?): where exactly are we? | |
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| Hazor: the mightiest Canaanite city of them all | |
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| Hebron: of myths and legends: who's buried here? | |
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| Herodian Jericho: why did Herod the Great have to show off so much? | |
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| Heshbon (Tell Hesban): a "lover's eyes" | |
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| Jericho (Tell es-Sultan): a big nail in the coffin of a "militaristic conquest" | |
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| Jerusalem: whatever happened to "David" and "Solomon"? | |
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| Jezreel (Tel): was Omri just boasting? | |
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| Lachish: at least the Assyrians were impressed | |
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| Megiddo: front-row seat for watching the end of the world | |
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| Mizpah (Tell en-Nasbeh?): what's an "ebenezer"? | |
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| Nazareth: a peasant village: hometown of Jesus | |
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| Ramat Rachel (Beth-Haccherem): why prophets sometimes hated kings | |
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| Samaria: the pride of the Omrides | |
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| Shechem: what do all these trees and stones mean? | |
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| Shiloh: the place of priests | |
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| Ta'anach: home of the cultic prize | |
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| Tell Beit Mirsim: what's in a name? | |
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| Tiberias: the jewel beside the Sea of Galilee | |
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| Timnah (Tel Batash): a lion, a wife, and a riddle | |
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| Yokne'am (Tell Qeimum): you don't have to be famous to be important | |
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| The Philistines | |
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| A note on chronology | |
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| Chronology for kings of Israel and Judah | |