Number 311 August 1998
ARTICLES
- K. S. B. RYHOLT: Hotepibre, a Supposed Asiatic King in Egypt with Relations to Ebla . . . 1
- GUNNAR LEHMANN: Trends in the Local Pottery Development of the Late Iron Age and Persian Period in Syria and Lebanon, ca. 700 to 300 B.C . . . . . 7
- RAFAEL FRANKEL and RAPHAEL VENTURA: The Mispe Yamim Bronzes . . . . . 39
- AMIR GOLANI and BENJAMIN SASS: Three Seventh-Century B.C.E. Hoards of Silver Jewlery from Tel Miqne-Ekron . . . . . 57
- CHRISTA MÜLLER-KESSLER: A Mandaic Gold Amulet in the British Museum . . . . . 83
BOOK REVIEWS
- DANIEL C. SNELL: Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-322 B.C.E. (Jennifer C. Ross) . . . . . 89
- RUTH AMIRAN AND ORNIT ILAN: Early Arad II: The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze IB Settlements and the Early Bronze II City: Architecture and Town Planning: Sixth to Eighteenth Seasons of Excavations, 1971-1978, 1980-1984 (Timothy P. Harrison) . . . . . 90
- AMNON BEN-TOR, RUHAMA BONFIL, YOSEF GARFINKEL, RAPHAEL GREENBERG, AREN MAEIR, AND AMIHAI MAZAR: Hazor V: An Account of the Fifth Season of Excavation, 1968 (Bruce Routledge) . . . . . 92
- PAUL ASTROM AND ELLEN HERSCHER, editors: Late Bronze Settlement in Cyprus: Function and Relationship (David W. Rupp) . . . . . 94
- BRIAN C. JONES: Howling over Moab: Irony and Rhetoric in Isaiah 15-16e (Marilyn J. Lundberg) . . . . . 96
- TILDE BINGER: Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament (Steve A. Wiggins) . . . . . 98
- GIDEON AVNI: Nomads, Farmers, and Town-dwellers: Pastoral-Sedentist Interaction in the Negev Highlands, Sixth-Eighth Centuries C.E. (Donald Whitcomb) . . . . . 100
- STEVEN A. ROSEN AND GIDEON AVNI: The 'Oded Sites: Investigations of Two Early Islamic Pastoral Camps South of the Ramon Crater (Donald Whitcomb) . . . . . 100
- A. BEN-TOR, M. AVISSAR, AND Y. PORTUGALI: Yoqne'am I: The Late Periods (Martha Sharp Joukowsky) . . . . . 102