The Bible and radiocarbon dating: archaeology, text and science

Abstract

Preface I. Introduction to the Problems 1) Radiocarbon Dating and the Iron Age of the Southern Levant: Problems and Potentials for the Oxford Conference - Thomas E. Levy and Thomas Higham 2) The Debate over the Chronology of the Iron Age in the Southern Levant: Its History, the Current Situation, and a Suggested Resolution - Amihai Mazar 3) The Low Chronology: Archaeology, History and Bible - Israel Finkelstein 4) Shishak, King of Egypt: The challenges of Egyptian calendrical chronology - Andrew Shortland II. Some Methodological Issues 5) Improving the Resolution of Radiocarbon Dating by Statistical Analysis - Christopher Bronk Ramsey 6) The Early Iron Age Dating Project: Introduction, Methodology, Progress Report and an Update on the Tel Dor Radiometric Dates - Ilan Sharon, Ayelet Gilboa, Elisabetta Boaretto and A.J. Timothy Jull III. Jordan in the Iron Age 7) Lowland Edom and the High and Low Chronologies: Edomite State Formation, the Bible and Recent Archaeological Research in Southern Jordan - Thomas E. Levy, Mohammad Najjar, Johannes van der Plicht, Thomas Higham, and Hendrik J. Bruins 8) Radiocarbon dating of the Khirbat-en Nahas site (Jordan) and Bayesian Modelling of the Results - Thomas Higham, Johannes van der Plicht, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Hendrik J. Bruins, Mark Robinson, and Thomas E. Levy 9) Mesha, the Mishor and the Chronology of Iron Age M DAB - Timothy P. Harrison and Celeste Barlow IV. Around the Eastern Mediterranean in the Iron Age 10) Radiocarbon Calibration in the East Mediterranean Region: The East Mediterranean Radiocarbon Comparison Project and the Current State of Play - Sturt W. Manning, Bernd Kromer, Sahra Talamo, Michael Friedrich, Peter Ian Kuniholm and Maryanne W. Newton 11) A Dendrochronological 14C Wiggle-match for the Early Iron Age of North Greece: A Contribution to the Debate about this Period in the Southern Levant. - Maryanne W. Newton, Peter Ian Kuniholm, and Kenneth A. Wardle 12) High Precision Dating and Archaeological Chronologies: Revisiting an Old Problem - Sue Sherratt V. Israel in the Iron Age 13) Ladder of Time at Tel Rehov: Stratigraphy, Archaeological Context, Pottery and Radiocarbon Dates - Amihai Mazar, Hendrik J. Bruins, Nava Panitz-Cohen and Johannes van der Plicht 14) Quality Control of Groningen 14C results from Tel Rehov: Repeatability and Intercomparison of Proportional Gas Counting and AMS - Johannes van der Plicht and Hendrik J.Bruins 15) 14C Results from Megiddo, Tel Dor, Tel Rehov and Tel Hadar: Where do They Lead Us? - Israel Finkelstein and Eli Piasetzky 16) High or Low: Megiddo and Rehov - Israel Finkelstein 17) Correlation and Chronology: Samaria and Megiddo Redux - Norma Franklin 18) Iron-Age 14C Dates from Tel Dan: A High Chronology - Hendrik J. Bruins, Johannes van der Plicht, David Ilan & Ella Werker 19) Iron I Chronology at Ashkelon: Preliminary Results of the Leon levy Expedition - Daniel Master 20) Desert Settlement through the Iron Age: Radiocarbon Dates from Sinai and the Negev Highlands - Hendrik J. Bruins and Johannes van der Plicht VI. Historical Considerations 21) Stamp-seal amulets and Early Iron Age Chronology - An Update - Stefan Munger 22) Problems in the Paleographic Dating of Inscriptions - William M. Schniedewind 23) Some Methodological Reflections on Chronology and History-Writing - William G. Dever 24) David Did It - Others Did Not: The Creation of Ancient Israel - Baruch Halpern VII. Conclusion 25) The view from Mount Nebo - Andrew Sherratt