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Royal cities of the biblical world

Title
Royal cities of the biblical world / edited by Joan Goodnick Westenholz.
Publication
Jerusalem : Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, [1996]

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Additional Authors
  • Westenholz, Joan Goodnick, 1943-2013
  • Muzeʼon artsot ha-Miḳra (Jerusalem)
Description
xxii, 334 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
Subject
  • Bible. > Antiquities > Exhibitions
  • Bible
  • Bible > Antiquities > Exhibitions
  • To 622
  • Cities and towns, Ancient > Middle East > Exhibitions
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Middle East > Exhibitions
  • Cities and towns, Ancient > Exhibitions
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Exhibitions
  • 15.51 Antiquity
  • Antiquities
  • Cities and towns, Ancient
  • Civilization
  • Excavations (Archaeology)
  • Hoofdsteden
  • Midden-Oosten
  • Oudheid
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Middle East
  • Cities and towns, Ancient > Middle East
  • Kings and rulers in the Bible
  • Middle East > Civilization > To 622 > Exhibitions
  • Middle East > Antiquities > Exhibitions
  • Middle East
  • Jérusalem > Catalogues d'exposition
  • Babylone (ville ancienne) > Catalogues d'exposition
  • Ur (ville ancienne) > Catalogues d'exposition
  • Tell el-Amarna (Égypte ; site archéologique) > Catalogues d'exposition
  • Tanis (ville ancienne) > Catalogues d'exposition
  • Ninive (ville ancienne) > Catalogues d'exposition
  • Suse (ville ancienne) > Catalogues d'exposition
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibitions (form)
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum, Jan. 17-Dec. 31, 1996, with title, Jerusalem : A captial for all times, royal cities of the Biblical world.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Moshe Weinfeld. -- Ur -- the primaeval city of kingship. Ur, capital of Sumner / Joan Goodnick Westenholz. -- The neo-Sumerian empire: its history, culture and religion / Marcel Sigrist and Joan Goodnick Westenholz. -- Hattuša -- the city of silver. Hattuša-Boǧazköy: aspects of Hittite architecture / Jak Yakar. -- The Hittites and their empire / David Hawkins. -- Akhetaten -- the city of one God. Akhetaten (Tell el-Amarna) / Ian Shaw. -- Tanis -- The golden cemetery. Tanis (Tell el-Hagar) / Philippe Brissaud. -- Nineveh -- the great city. Nineveh / John Russell. -- Assyrian culture / Giovanni B. Lanfranchi. -- Babylon -- Wonder of the world. Babylon, place of the creation of the great gods / Joan Goodnick Westenholz. -- The culture of the neo-Babylonian empire / David Weisberg. -- Susa -- city of splendour. The palace of Susa / Jean Perrot and Daniel Ladiray. -- Achaemenid art / Irit Ziffer. -- Jerusalem -- the holy city. Jerusalem, First Temple: archaeological exploration / Dan Bahat and Gila Hurvitz. -- Jerusalem, capital of Israel and Judah / Dan Bahat.
ISBN
  • 9657027012
  • 9789657027011
LCCN
97204697
OCLC
  • ocm38106925
  • 38106925
  • SCSB-2101918
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library