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Vol. 4, No. 7
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The Daily Stew? Everyday Meals in Ancient Israel
By Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
What did the ancient Israelites eat and how did they cook? Unfortunately, the Hebrew Bible doesn’t contain as much information on daily cooking and meals as one would like. The limited amount of information on food in the Hebrew Bible relates to the kosher dietary laws (Lev. 11), the sacrificial system (Lev. 1-7; Num.), or elite feasting or meals.
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The Beni Hasan Tomb Painting and Scholarship of the Southern Levant
By Susan Cohen
Sometimes a single image can be made to carry more weight than it was intended. For over a century, one painting in the Middle Kingdom tomb complex at Beni Hasan—located in the 16th Upper Egyptian (Oryx) Nome in Middle Egypt—has given rise to considerable interpretation of the history, economy, and society of the southern Levant.
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[/vc_column_text][mk_divider thickness=”1″ margin_top=”10″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]The Present and Future of Curating the Past
By Andrew Creekmore
The corrugated steel garage door clamored as it rose. We stood on a dusty road in a small town in Turkey and peered into the darkness of our excavation depot. Anxious to get reacquainted with our artifacts—which we had not seen in nearly a year—we were about to step down into the space but hesitated.
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The Ancient Near East Today features contributions from diverse academics, a forum featuring debates of current developments from the field, and links to news and resources. The ANE Today covers the entire Near East, and each issue presents discussions ranging from the state of biblical archaeology to archaeology after the Arab Spring.