Archaeology and Text: A Journal for the Integration of Material Culture with Written Documents in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
The study of the human past has conventionally been divided between two distinct academic disciplines depending upon the kind of evidence under investigation: “history”, with its focus on written records, and “archaeology”, which analyzes the remains of material culture. Archaeology and Text: A Journal for the Integration of Material Culture with Written Documents in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East aims to bridge this disciplinary divide by providing an international forum for scholarly discussions which integrate the studies of material culture with written documents. Interdisciplinary by nature, the journal offers a platform for professional historians and archaeologists alike to critically investigate points of confluence and divergence between the textual and the artifactual. We seek contributions from scholars working in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Contributions with a theoretical or methodological focus on the interface between archaeology and text are especially encouraged. By publishing all of its articles online, the Archaeology and Text seeks to disseminate its published papers immediately after the peer-review and editorial processes have been completed, providing timely publication and convenient access.
Volume 1 -2017
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Articles:
Divination Texts of Maresha – Archeology and Texts
Esther Eshel, Bar Ilan University, Ian Stern, Archaeological Seminars Institute, 7-26Toward an “Archaeology of Halakhah”: Prospects and Pitfalls of Reading Early Jewish Ritual Law into the Ancient Material Record
Yontan Adler, Ariel University, 27-38Purity Observance among Diaspora Jews in the Roman World
Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 39-66Visual Models in Archaeology and Harmonization of Archaeological and Literary Data
Catalin Pavel, Kennesaw State University, 67-94Reading Between the Lines: Jewish Mortuary Practices in Text and Archaeology
Karen B. Stern, City University of New York, Brooklyn College, 95-114Complex Purity: Between Continuity and Diversity in Ancient Judaism
Yair Furstenberg, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 115-131
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