Proceedings of the Colloquium in Honor of the Centennial of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem, 14-16 March 1977 Biran, Avraham creator text xx Jerusalem, Israel Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion 1981, c.1977 9999 monographic und eng

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vii, 182 p. : ill. , plans ; 25 cm. Opening remarks / Alfred Gottschalk & Yigael Yadin -- YHWH came out from Sinai / Benjamin Mazar -- Brining the God into the temple / Richard D. Barnett -- Temple without hands / David Noel Freedman -- Temples and cultic open areas as reflected in the Bible / Menahem Haran -- Features and continuity of Cretan Peak cults / Doro Levi -- Some observations on Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age sanctuaries and religion / Ruth Amiran -- A peak sanctuary in Bronze Age Thera / Spyridon Iakovidis -- Cult scenes on Early Bronze Age cylinder seal impressions (synopsis of lecture) / Amnon Ben-Tor -- Hittite temples and high places in Anatolia and North Syria / Kurt Bittel -- Sanctuaries along the coast of Canaan in the MB period: Nahariyah / Moshe Dothan -- The sacred area of Kition / Vassos Karageorghis -- The high place of Athienou in Cyprus / Trude Dothan. Temples and high places in Phrygia / Machteld J. Mellink -- The Philistine sanctuary at Tell Qasile (synopsis of lecture) / Amihai Mazar -- Imported vessels of the Late Bronze Age at high places / Vronwy Hankey -- The newly discovered Late Bronze Age temple at Tel Lachish (synopsis of lecture) / David Ussishkin -- Israelite sanctuaries at Arad and Beer-Sheba (synopsis of lecture) / Zeev Herzog -- Notes on median and early Achaemenian religious monuments / David Stronach -- Aramaean and Phoenician stylistic and iconographic elements in neo-Hittite art / Ekrem Akurgal -- "To the God who is in Dan" / Avraham Biran -- Jerusalem opposite the Temple Mount (synopsis of lecture) / Nahman Avigad. Brief communications on recent archaeological discoveries -- From hunter to herder in Southern Sinai / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- Chalcolithic house-god figures from the Golan (synopsis of lecture) / Claire Epstein -- The Middle and Late Bronze Age temples at Tel Kittan (synopsis of lecture) / Emmanuel Eisenberg -- Late Bronze Age sanctuary at Tel Mevorakh (synopsis of lecture) / Ephraim Stern -- A religious center at Kuntillet-Ajrud, Sinai (synopsis of lecture) / Zeev Meshel -- A Pilgrims' Church in Rehovot in the Negev / Yoram Tsafrir -- A Byzantine Synagogue in the Beth Shean Valley / Fanny Vitto -- Closing session -- The priestly tabernacle in the light of recent research / Frank M. Cross -- The Holy City in the temple scroll / Yigael Yadin -- Closing remarks / Josef Aviram and Frank M. Cross. edited by Avraham Biran Temples Middle East Congresses.High places (Shrines) Congresses.Worship in the Bible Congresses DS111.7 .C6 1977 231021