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The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University
is pleased to announce the Annual Aharoni Symposium
From Nomadism to Monarchy? “The Archaeology of the Settlement Period”– 30 Years Later
Wednesday–Thursday, March 15–16, 2017
Room 223, Gilman Building, Tel Aviv University
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15
12:45 Gathering
13:00 Welcome and Introduction
Oded Lipschits, Omer Sergi, and Ido Koch (Tel Aviv University)
SESSION 1
Session Chair: Ido Koch (Tel Aviv University)
13:15 Philistines, Canaanites and Egyptians: The Early 12th Century BCE Revisited
Shirly Ben-Dor Evian (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University)
13:40 Settlement Oscillations in the Southern Levant in Light of Climate Changes
Dafna Langgut (Tel Aviv University)
14:05 Notes on Scribal Practices in the Early Iron II
David Vanderhooft (Boston College)
14:30 Break
SESSION 2
Session Chair: Omer Sergi (Tel Aviv University)
15:00 The Book of Josiah or the Book of Joshua? Excavating the Literary History of the Story of the Conquest
Cynthia Edenburg (Open University of Israel)
15:25 Geographical Observations on the Old North Israelite Tales in Judges
Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University)
15:50 The Role of the Ark in the Conquest Accounts and in the Book of Samuel
Thomas Römer (Collège de France and University of Lausanne)
16:15 Coffee Break
SESSION 3
Session Chair: Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University)
16:45 Under Hazor's Shadow: The Upper Jordan Valley in the Iron I
Assaf Kleiman (Tel Aviv University)
17:10 Sixty Years after Aharoni: A New Look at the Iron Age I Settlement in the Upper Galilee
Ido Wachtel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
17:35 The Early Iron Age in the Northern Coastal Plain (Western Galilee)
Gunnar Lehmann (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
18:00 Canaanites in a Changing World: The Jezreel Valley during the Iron I
Eran Arie (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
THURSDAY, MARCH 16
11:45 Gathering
SESSION 4
Session Chair: David Vanderhooft (Boston College)
12:00 An Untold Story: The Human-like Figures and the Snake on an Architectural Model from Beth-Shean's Northern Temple
Tallay Ornan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
12:25 Late Bronze/Iron Age Animal Economy - Continuity vs. Change
Lidar Sapir-Hen (Tel Aviv University)
12:50 Production Autonomy to Centralization: The Iron I-IIA Transition from a Metallurgical Perspective
Naama Yahalom-Mack (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
13:15 Break
SESSION 5
Session Chair: Dafna Langgut (Tel Aviv University)
13:45 The Iron I Settlement of Tall ZirāꜤa in Northern Jordan: Transitions between the Late Bronze Age and the Iron II
Dieter Vieweger (German Protestant Institute of Archaeology Jerusalem and Amman [DEI], University of Wuppertal [BU])
14:10 From Communities to Kingdoms across Western Jordan: Tracing Uneven Trajectories of Development
Benjamin Porter (University of California, Berkeley)
14:35 A False Contrast? On the Possibility of Nomadic Monarchy in the Iron I Arabah (Early Edom) in Light of Recent Research
Erez Ben-Yosef (Tel Aviv University)
15:00 Coffee Break
SESSION 6
Session Chair: Erez Ben-Yosef (Tel Aviv University)
15:30 Societal Transformations in Southwest Canaan during the Late Second Millennium BCE
Ido Koch (Tel Aviv University)
15:55 Like Frogs out of a Pond: Identity Formation in Early Iron Age Philistia and Beyond
Aren Maeir (Bar Ilan University)
16:20 The Many Beginnings of Israel: An Archaeological and Historical Perspective from the Central Canaanite Hill Country
Omer Sergi (Tel Aviv University)
16:45 Were There Israelites? The Demographic, Cultural and Political Change of the Iron I “Highlanders”
Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University)
17:10 Break
SESSION 7
Session Chair: Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University)
17:40 Greetings and Awarding of Scholarships
Leo Corry, Dean, The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University
Ran Barkai, Chair, The Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University
Oded Lipschits, Director, The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University
18:10 The Rise of the Israelite Monarchy in Retrospective
Nadav Na’aman (Tel Aviv University)
18:40 The Rise of Ancient Israel: The Need for Revision on Almost Every Front
Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University)
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