Bibliography

 

The University of Pennsylvania Museum Excavations (main publications only)

 

FitzGerald, G.M. 1930. The Four Canaanite Temples of Beth-shan, The Pottery, Beth Shan II:2. Philadelphia.

 

Rowe, A. 1930  The Topography and History of Beth-shan, Beth-shan I. Philadelphia.       

 

FitzGerald, G.M. 1931. Beth-shan Excavations 1921-23, The Arab and Byzantine Levels, Beth-shan III.

 

Rowe, A. 1940 The Four Canaanite Temples of Beth-shan, Beth-Shan II:1. Philadelphia.    

 

James, F.W. 1966. e Iron Age at Beth-Shean. Philadelphia.

 

Thompson, T.O. 1970  Mekal, the God of Bet Shean. Leiden.

 

Oren, E.D. 1973   The Northern Cemetery of Beth-Shean. Leiden.

 

McGovern, P.E. 1985  Late Bronze Palestinian Pendants. Sheffield.

 

James, F.W and McGovern, P.E. 1993 The Late Bronze Egyptian Garrison at Beth Shan: A Study of Levels VII and VIII. Vol. I-II. Philadelphia

 

           

 

The Hebrew University Excavations Directed by Y. and S.Geva

 

Y.Yadin,Y. and Geva,S. 1986 Investigations At Beth-Shean, The Early Iron Age Strata (Qedem 23). Jerusalem.

 

 

The Hebrew University Excavations Directed by A.Mazar

 

Mazar, A. 1993. Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean in 1989-1990. pp.606-619 in:

A.Biran and  J.Aviram (editors), Biblical Archaeology Today 1990, Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem.

 

Mazar, A. 1993. Beth-Shean in the Iron Age: Preliminary Report and Conclusions of the 1990-1991 Excavations. Israel Exploration Journal 43: 201-229.

 

Mazar, A., 1997. The Excavations at Beth-Shean during the Years 1989-94. pp. 144-164

in: N.A.Silberman & D.Small (editors), The Archaeology of Israel  (Journal  for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 237), Sheffield.

 

Mazar, A. 1997. Four Thousand Years of History at Tel Beth-Shean: An Account of the Renewed Excavations. Biblical Archaeologist  60: 62-76.

 

Beth-Shean, Tel in: The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land  (revised edition, New York 1993 (editor: E.Stern) 

 

Sweeney, D. 1998. The Man on the Folding Chair: An Egyptian Relief from Beth-Shean. Israel Exploration Journal 48: 38-53.

 

Horowitz, W.   1994    Trouble in Canaan: A Letter of the el-Amarna Period on a Clay cylinder from Beth-Shean. Qadmoniot 27: 84-86 (in Hebrew).

 

Horowitz, W. 1996. An Inscribed Clay Cylinder from Amarna Age Beth-Shean. Israel Exploration Journal  46: 208-218.

 

Cohen-Weinberger, A. 1988. Petrographic Analysis of the Egyptian Forms from Stratum VI at Tel Beth-Shean. pp. 406-412 in: Mediterranean Peoples in Transition : Thirteenth to Early Tenth Centuries BCE. (editors: S.Gitin, A.Mazar, E.Stern). Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society .

 

Finkelstein, I. , 1996 The Stratigraphy and Chronology of Megiddo and Beth-shan, in the 12th-11th Centuries B.C.E.  Tel Aviv 23: 170-184.

 

Maeir, A.,  1997.  The Material Culture of the Central Jordan Valley During the Middle Bronze II Period: Pottery and Settlement Pattern.  Ph.D Dissertation, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University. 

 

Beth-Shean. Pp. 305-309 in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (ed. E. M. Meyers). New York 1997, Vol. 1

 

Mazar, A. Ziv-Esudri, A. and Cohen-Weinberger, 2000. A. The Early Bronze II-III at Tel Beth-Shean: Preliminary Observations. Pp. 255-278 in: G. Philip and D. Baird (eds.), Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant, (Levantine Archaeology 2). Sheffield.

 

Mazar, A. and Carmi, I. 2001. Radiocarbon Dates from Iron Age Strata at Tel Beth-Shean and Tel Rehov. Radiocarbon 43:3 (2001): 1333-1342.

 

Mazar, A. 2001. Beth-Shean during the Iron Age II: Stratigraphy, Chronology and Hebrew Ostraca. Pp. 289-309 in: A. Mazar (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series No. 331). Sheffield.     

 

Mullins, R. 2002. Beth-Shean During the Eighteenth Dynasty: From Canaanite Settlement to Egyptian Garrison (Ph.D. Dissertation submitted to the Hebrew University). Jerusalem.

 

Mazar, A. 2003. Beth-Shean in the Second Millennium B.C.E.: From Canaanite Town to Egyptian Stronghold. Pp. 323-340 in: M. Bietak (ed.). The Synchronisation of Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C. II: Proceedings of the SCIEM 2000 – EuroConference, Haindorff, 2nd of May–7th of May 2001. Vienna.

 

Goldwasser, O. 2004. A 'Kirgipa' Commemorative Scarab of Amenhotep III from Beit-Shean. Agypte und Levant XII: 191-193.

 

In press:

 

Sherratt, S.  and Mazar, A. 2005. Mycenaean IIIC" and Related Pottery from Beth-Shean. In: A. E. Killebrew, G.Lehman and M.Artzy, (editors), The Philistines and Other “Sea Peoples” in Text and Archaeology. Leiden..

 

A.Mazar, 2005. Contributions to the Study of Early Bronze Age Public Architecture: Tel Beth-Shean and Tel Rehov. In: J. Margueron, P. de Miroschedji and J. P. Thalaman (eds.), 3 ICAANE Proceedings. Winona Lake .

 

Mazar, A. (editor) Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean,  1989-1996. Volume I: From the New Kingdom to the Medieval Period. Jerusalem.  

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