Bene Israel

Alexander Fantalkin, Ph.D. (2007) in Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, is a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. He has published extensively on interactions between the Aegean and the Levant during the first millenium BCE.
Assaf Yassur-Landau, Ph.D. (2003) in Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, is an assistant professor of Archaeology and History at the Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published extensively on interactions between the Aegean and the Levant during the second millennium BCE.

All those interested in archaeology and history of the Land of Israel during the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as Biblical scholars.

CONTENTS
Urban Land Use Changes on the Southeastern Slope of Tel Megiddo during the Middle Bronze Age
Eran Arie
The Appearance of Rock-Cut Bench Tombs in Iron Age Judah as a Reflection of State Formation
Alexander Fantalkin
Trademarks of the Omride Builders?
Norma Franklin
Continuity and Change in the Late Bronze to Iron Age Transition in Israel’s Coastal Plain: A Long Term Perspective
Yuval Gadot
Permanent and Temporary Settlements in the South of the Lower Besor Region: Two Case Studies
Dan Gazit
The Socioeconomic Implications of Grain Storage in Early Iron Age Canaan: The Case of Tel Dan
David Ilan
A Re-analysis of the Archaeological Evidence for the Beginning of the Iron Age I
Yitzhak Meitlis
Reassessing the Bronze and Iron Age Economy: Sheep and Goat Husbandry in the Southern Levant as a Model Case Study
Aharon Sasson
Settlement Patterns of Philistine City-States
Alon Shavit
Levantine Standardized Luxury in the Late Bronze Age: Waste Management at Tell Atchana (Alalakh)
Amir Sumaka’i Fink
Desert Outsiders: Extramural Neighborhoods in the Iron Age Negev
Yifat Thareani-Sussely
A Message in a Jug: Canaanite, Philistine, and Cypriot Iconography and the “Orpheus Jug”
Assaf Yasur-Landau