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William G. Dever

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#215

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#76

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Archeology

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According to Wikipedia, William Gwinn Dever is an American archaeologist, scholar, historian, semiticist, and theologian. He is an active scholar of the Old Testament, and historian, specialized in the history of the Ancient Near East and the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah in biblical times. He was Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona in Tucson from 1975 to 2002. He is a Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania.

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New Vistas on the EB IV ("MB I") Horizon in Syria-Palestine (1980) (87)
Histories and Nonhistories of Ancient Israel (1999) (81)
Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come from (2003) (66)
Archaeological Sources for the History of Palestine: The Middle Bronze Age: The Zenith of the Urban Canaanite Era (1987) (64)
Living on the Fringe: The Archaeology and History of the Negev, Sinai, and Neighboring Regions in the Bronze and Iron Ages (1998) (59)
The EB IV-MB I Horizon in Transjordan and Southern Palestine (1973) (58)
Highlands of Many Cultures: The Southern Samaria Survey: The Sites (1997) (54)
The Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: Archaeology, Radiocarbon and History (1996) (49)
Ceramics, Ethnicity, and the Question of Israel's Origins (1995) (40)
Asherah, Consort of Yahweh? New Evidence from Kuntillet ʿAjrûd (1984) (40)
The Chronology of Syria-Palestine in the Second Millennium B. C. E.: A Review of Current Issues (1992) (39)
Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel (2005) (38)
What did the biblical writers know, and when did they know it? : what archaeology and the Bible can tell us about ancient Israel (2003) (38)
Retrospects and Prospects in Biblical and Syro-Palestinian Archeology (1982) (34)
Gezer I : preliminary report of the 1964-66 seasons (1973) (34)
Preliminary Report of the Second Season of the "Central Negev Highlands Project" (1978) (33)
Masada IV: The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963-1965, Final Reports: Lamps; Textiles, Basketry, Cordage and Related Artifacts; Wood Remains; Ballista Balls; Addendum: Human Skeletal Remains (1996) (29)
What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It (2001) (28)
"Will the Real Israel Please Stand Up?" Archaeology and Israelite Historiography: Part I (1995) (28)
Further Excavations at Gezer, 1967-1971 (1971) (27)
Cultural continuity, ethnicity in the archaeological record and the question of israelite origins (1993) (26)
The Early Bronze Age IV in the Southern Levant Settlement Patterns, Economy, and Material Culture of a 'Dark Age' (1993) (25)
Archaeology, Ideology, and the Quest for an "Ancient" or "Biblical Israel" (1998) (25)
Houses and Their Furnishings in Bronze Age Palestine: Domestic Activity Areas and Artefact Distribution in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages (1994) (25)
Excavations at Gezer (1967) (24)
Preliminary Report of the Third and Final Season of the "Central Negev Highlands Project" (1981) (23)
The Peoples of Palestine in the Middle Bronze I Period (1971) (23)
Gezer IV : the 1969-71 seasons in field VI, the "acropolis" (1986) (23)
Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research (1990) (23)
Excavations at the Early Bronze IV Sites of Jebel Qa'aqir and Be'er Resisim (2014) (21)
Archaeology and Israelite Origins (1990) (20)
Gezer I: Preliminary Report of the 1964-66 Seasons (1972) (19)
Gezer II : report of the 1967-70 seasons in fields I and II (1976) (19)
The archaeology of V. Gordon Childe : contemporary perspectives (1996) (17)
Excavations at Tel Mevorakh (1973-1976), Part One: From the Iron Age to the Roman Period (1980) (17)
What Remains of the House That Albright Built? (1993) (16)
The Impact of the "New Archaeology" on Syro-Palestinian Archaeology (1981) (15)
Heshbon Pottery 1971: A Preliminary Report on the Pottery from the 1971 Excavations at Tell Hesban (1974) (15)
Late Bronze Age and Solomonic Defenses at Gezer: New Evidence (1986) (15)
The MB IIC Stratification in the Northwest Gate Area At Shechem (1974) (15)
The Middle Bronze Age “High Place” at Gezer (2014) (14)
"Will the Real Israel Please Stand up?" Part II: Archaeology and the Religions of Ancient Israel (1995) (14)
Recent Excavations in Israel: Studies in Iron Age Archaeology (1989) (14)
The Gezer Fortifications and the ‘High Place’: an Illustration of Stratigraphic Methods and Problems (1973) (13)
Preliminary Report of the Pilot Season of the "Central Negev Highlands Project" (1978) (13)
The death of a discipline (1995) (12)
Further Evidence on the Date of the Outer Wall at Gezer (1993) (11)
MB IIA Cemeteries At 'Ain es-Sâmiyeh and Sinjil (1975) (11)
Archaeological Data on the Israelite Settlement: A Review of Two Recent Works (1991) (11)
Village Planning at Be’er Resisim (2014) (11)
‘Hyksos’, Egyptian Destructions, and the end of the Palestinian Middle Bronze Age (1990) (10)
A Reevaluation of Tell Beit Mirsim Stratum J (1977) (10)
Archaeological Reports from the Tabqa Dam Project: Euphrates Valley, Syria (1983) (10)
Archeological Method in Israel: A Continuing Revolution (1980) (10)
Save us from postmodern Malarkey (2000) (10)
Excavations in Jerusalem 1961-1967; Vol. I (1989) (9)
Gezer Revisited: New Excavations of the Solomonic and Assyrian Period Defenses (1984) (9)
Tell el-Dabʿa and Levantine Middle Bronze Age Chronology: A Rejoinder to Manfred Bietak (1991) (9)
The Late Bronze, Iron Age, and Hellenistic Defences of Gezer (1982) (8)
Archaeology, Urbanism, and the rise of the Israelite state (1997) (8)
A Manual of Field Excavation: Handbook for Field Archaeologists (1982) (8)
The Water Systems at Hazor and Gezer (1969) (6)
Biblical Theology and Biblical Archaeology: An appreciation of G. Ernest Wright (1980) (5)
Archaeology And The Question Of Sources In Kings (2010) (5)
Visiting the Real Gezer: A Reply to Israel Finkelstein (2003) (5)
A Manual of Field Excavation (1981) (5)
Preliminary Excavation Reports: Sardis, Bir Umm Fawakhir, Tell El-`Umeiri, The Combined Caesarea Expeditions, and Tell Dothan (1995) (5)
ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE EMERGENCE OF EARLY ISRAEL (2002) (5)
The Identity of Early Israel: a Rejoinder To Keith W. Whitelam (1996) (5)
Vestigial Features in MB I: An Illustration of Some Principles of Ceramic Typology (1970) (4)
Book Review: An everyday story of bible folk? William G. Dever, The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel. Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect (2012) (4)
Archaeology and the ancient Israelite cult : How the Kh. el-Qôm and Kuntillet 'Ajrûd 'Asherah' texts have changed the picture (1999) (4)
The Tell el-Hesi Field Manual (1981) (4)
Preliminary Excavation Reports: Sardis, Idalion, and Tell El-Handaquq North (1996) (4)
Beyond the Texts: An Archaeological Portrait of Ancient Israel and Judah (2017) (4)
Preliminary excavation reports : Sardis, Paphos, Caesarea Maritima, Shiqmim, ʿAin Ghazal (1993) (3)
Excavating the Hebrew Bible, or Burying It Again? (2001) (3)
Tell El-Hesi: The Persian Period (1990) (3)
Nelson Glueck and the Other Half of the Holy Land (2000) (3)
Aspects of Monotheism: How God is One: Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution, October 19, 1996, Sponsored by the Resident Associate Program (1997) (3)
Tell el-Hesi: The Persian Period (Stratum V) (1992) (3)
Commentary: Of Myths and Methods (1990) (3)
Of Myths and Methods (2016) (3)
An MB I Tomb Group from Sinjil (1971) (3)
Archaeology and the Religions of Israel (1996) (3)
The echoes of many texts : reflections on Jewish and Christian traditions : essays in honor of Lou H. Silberman (1997) (3)
Archaeology and the current crisis in Israelite historiography (1996) (2)
Chieftains of the Highland Clans. A History of Israel in the 12th and 11th Centuries B.C.. Robert D. Miller II. (2006) (2)
Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations , edited by Raymond Cohen and Raymond Westbrook. 307 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins Press, 2000. $48.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8018-6199-3 (2001) (2)
My Nine Lives (2020) (1)
The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish (1973-1994). David Ussishkin. (2005) (1)
An EB IV tomb group from Tell Beit Mirsim (2003) (1)
Dever, "Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research" (1995) (1)
The Central Negev Highlands Project (2014) (1)
Religion and Cult in the Levant: The Archaeological Data (2003) (1)
Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology. Margaret S. Drower. (1989) (1)
Syro-Palestinian Archaeology "Comes of Age": The Inaugural Volume of the Hesban Series: A Review Article (1993) (1)
The Site and the Excavations (2014) (1)
Orienting the study of trade in Near Eastern archaeology (1995) (1)
A Temple Built for Two : Did Yahweh Share a Throne with His Consort Asherah? (2008) (1)
Heshbon 1973: The Third Campaign at Tell Hesban, a Preliminary Report (1977) (1)
Two Views of a History of Ancient Israel (2010) (1)
Excavation Reports on Palestinian Archaeology: Some Review Notices (1973) (1)
Archaeology and Folk or Family Religion in Ancient Israel (2019) (1)
The Economic Basis of the Negev EB IV Settlements (2014) (0)
Archaeology and the History of Israel (2017) (0)
The Savage in Judaism: Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism (review) (2012) (0)
Solomon, Scripture, and Science: The Rise of the Judahite State in the 10th Century BCE (2021) (0)
Recent Scholarship and Jebel Qa‘aqir (2014) (0)
Archaeology and the Six Day War (1967) (0)
The Occupied Caves (2014) (0)
Report of the Director of the Albright Institute (1974) (0)
The Settlement at Be’er Resisim (2014) (0)
The Exodus and the Bible: What Was Known; What Was Remembered; What Was Forgotten? (2015) (0)
Measurement of Speed of Sound Profile using LaACES Balloon (2017) (0)
The Bible in context : how history and archaeology are changing the way we read the Bible (2005) (0)
Max Weber's Sociological Approach and Ancient Israel: An Archaeological Critique (2017) (0)
The Zenith of the Urban Canaanite (2008) (0)
Is the Bible right after all ? Part 2. Interviews William Dever (1996) (0)
URING THE PAST DECADE OR SO NUMEROUS BIBLICAL (2008) (0)
Dolmen 1007 and the Area G Bamah (2014) (0)
Measurement of speed of sound profile as a function of altitude (2017) (0)
Purchased Pottery and Copper Objects (2014) (0)
Talking Points from Books (1993) (0)
Books Also Received or Received Too Late for Review in 2007 (2007) (0)
Archeolotical Method in Israel : A (2008) (0)
Report of the Director of the Jerusalem School (1973) (0)
The Boundary Walls and Kiln E2026 (2014) (0)
Archaeology, the Israelite Monarchy, and the Solomonic Temple (2017) (0)
RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONFIRMATION OF THE CULT OF ASHERAH IN ANCIENT ISRAEL (2016) (0)
MB II A cemeteries at Aimes-Samiyeh and Sinjic (1975) (0)
Book Review:Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies Benjamin Mazar (1985) (0)
Typological and Technological Comparisons of Late Third Millennium BCE Metal Implements from Palestine (2014) (0)
RELIABILITY PLAN FOR NON-FUNDED SUBCONTRACTORS (MINUTEMAN), (1963) (0)
Archaeology's Publication Problem (1996) (0)
Correction: The Chronology of Palestine in the Early Second Millennium B. C. E. (1993) (0)
In Memoriam: Yigal Shiloh, 1937-1987 (1989) (0)
Trade, Contact, and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean. Studies in Honour of J. Basil Hennessy (1996) (0)
Report of the Director of the Albright Institute, Jerusalem (1973) (0)
The Unique Contributions of Jebel Qa‘aqir (2014) (0)
Kathleen Kenyon (1906-1978): A Tribute (1978) (0)
KNOWN FROM ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES (2009) (0)
Syro-Palestinian and Biblical Archaeology: Into the Next Millennium (2003) (0)
Shorter Notices (2005) (0)
Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research, pt. 3 (1985) (0)
Archaeology: Digging Up Jerusalem. Kathleen M. Kenyon (1976) (0)
Book Review:Out of the Desert: Archaeology and the Exodus / Conquest Narratives William H. Stiebing, Jr. (1991) (0)
DESIGN OF BALLOON PAYLOAD TO MEASURE OF SPEED OF SOUND PROFILE AS A FUNCTION OF ALTITUDE (2018) (0)
Biblical and Syro-Palestinian Archaeology (2017) (0)
The Judean “Pillar-Base Figurines”:: Mothers or “Mother-Goddesses”? (2014) (0)
From the Bible to the Levant and Beyond (2017) (0)
Be’er Resisim in the Context of the EB IV Settlements of the Negev (2014) (0)
Off-site Structures (2014) (0)
Yigael Yadin (1917-1984): In Memoriam (1984) (0)
The Negev-Transjordanian Connection (2014) (0)

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