The Philistines and other "sea peoples" in text and archaeology

When the Past Was New: Moshe Dothan (1919-1999), an Appreciation / Neil Asher Silberman

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1. The World of the Philistines and Other "Sea Peoples" / Ann E. Killebrew / Gunnar Lehmann

The Philistines in Text and Archaeology

2. The Philistines in the Bible: A Short Rejoinder to a New Perspective / Itamar Singer

3. Mycenaean IIIC:1 Pottery in Philistia: Four Decades of Research / Trude Dothan / David Ben-Shlomo

4. Philistines and Egyptians in Southern Coastal Canaan during the Early Iron Age / Tristan J. Barako

5. The Mycenaean IIIC Pottery at Tel Miqne-Ekron / Penelope A. Mountjoy

6. Early Philistine Pottery Technology at Tel Miqne-Ekron: Implications for the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age Transition in the Eastern Mediterranean / Ann E. Killebrew

7. Philistine Lion-Headed Cups: Aegean or Anatolian? / Linda Meiberg

8. A Few Tomb Groups from Tell el-Far'ah South / Sabine Laemmel

9. Philistia Transforming: Fresh Evidence from Tell es-Safi/Gath on the Transformational Trajectory of the Philistine Culture / Aren M. Maeir

10. Neighbors and Foes, Rivals and Kin: Philistines, Shepheleans, Judeans between Geography and Economy, History and Theology / Hermann Michael Niemann

The Other "Sea Peoples" in the Levant

11. Aegean-Style Pottery in Syria and Lebanon during Iron Age I / Gunnar Lehmann

12. On the Other "Sea Peoples" / Michal Artzy

13. The Origin and Date of Aegean-Type Pottery in the Levant / Elizabeth French

14. "Mycenaean IIIC" and Related Pottery from Beth Shean / Susan Sherratt / Amihai Mazar / Anat Cohen-Weinberger

15. The SKL Town: Dor in the Early Iron Age / Ilan Sharon / Ayelet Gilboa

Anatolia, the Aegean, and Cyprus

16. "No Land Could Stand Before Their Arms, from Hatti… on…"? New Light on the End of the Hittite Empire and the Early Iron Age in Central Anatolia / Hermann Genz

17. Cilicia / Elizabeth French

18. Early Iron Age Newcomers at Kinet Höyük, Eastern Cilicia / Marie-Henriette Gates

19. The Southeast Aegean in the Age of the Sea Peoples / Mario Benzi

20. Aegean Elements in the Earliest Philistine Ceramic Assemblage: A View from the West / Jeremy B. Rutter

21. The Late LH IIIB and LH IIIC Early Pottery of the East Aegean-West Anatolian Interface / Penelope A. Mountjoy

22. Aegean-Style Material Culture in Late Cypriot III: Minimal Evidence, Maximal Interpretation / Maria Iacovou

23. The Ceramic Phenomenon of the "Sea Peoples": An Overview / Susan Sherratt

Appendix

24. The "Sea Peoples" in Primary Sources / Matthew J. Adams / Margaret E. Cohen

Bibliography

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