DAWFADigital Archive of William Foxwell Albright

Edited by Matthew J. Saunders

DAWFA A.14 · Books and Monographs

The Archaeology of Palestine

1960

Citation

Albright, William Foxwell. The Archaeology of Palestine. Revised reprint of the 1956 ed. Pelican Books A199. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960.

The contents are from the 1961 reprint of the 1960 edition.

Chapter outline

Front matter

  1. Editorial Foreword6

Chapters

  1. 1The Art of Excavating a Palestinian Mound7
  2. 2The Discovery of Ancient Palestine23
  3. 3Prehistoric Palestine49
  4. 4Palestine in the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze65
  5. 5Palestine in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages80
  6. 6Palestine in the Iron Age110
    1. Iron I (Twelfth–Tenth Centuries)112
    2. Iron II (Ninth–Early Sixth Centuries)128
    3. Iron III (c. 550–330 B.C.)142
  7. 7Palestine in Graeco-Roman Times146
  8. 8Peoples and Languages, Writing and Literature in Ancient Palestine177
  9. 9Daily Life in Ancient Palestine204
    1. The Time of Jacob: Middle Bronze II204
    2. The Time of Elijah: Iron IIA208
    3. New Testament Times212
  10. 10The Old Testament and Archaeology219
  11. 11The New Testament and Archaeology238
  12. 12Ancient Palestine in World History250

Back matter

  1. Bibliography256
  2. Acknowledgements258
  3. List of Plates259
  4. List of Text Illustrations260
  5. Index263

Printings, editions, and translations

  1. 1949 · Freedman A-21

    1st ed. Pelican Books A199. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 271 pp. + 16 pls.

  2. 1950 · Freedman A-23

    Hebrew translation: Ha-ʾarkeʾologiyah shel Erets-Yisraʾel. Trans. Aharon Amir, with a contribution by E. I. Sukenik (pp. 231–44). Tel Aviv: Am Oved (Hebrew year 5711). 260 pp. Freedman dates the book 1950; a bookseller dates the volume 1951.

  3. 1951 · Freedman A-25

    Pelican Books A199, reprinted with many corrections and additions. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

  4. 1954 · Freedman A-29

    Pelican Books A199, third revised printing. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

  5. 1955 · Freedman A-31

    French translation, revised: L’Archéologie de la Palestine. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf. 295 pp. + 16 pls.

  6. 1956 · Freedman A-32

    Pelican Books A199, revised reprint. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

  7. 1957 · Freedman A-37

    Italian translation of the 1956 edition: L’archeologia di Palestina. Le Piccole Storie Illustrate 4. Florence: Sansoni. 346 pp. + 16 pls.

  8. 1960 · Freedman A-40

    Revised reprint of the 1956 edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin. This is the edition cited above.

  9. 1961 · Freedman A-40

    Reprint of the 1960 revised reprint. Pelican Books A199. Harmondsworth: Penguin. The copyright page is the source of this line; Freedman does not list the 1961 reprint separately. The contents below are from this printing.

  10. 1960 · Freedman A-41

    Dutch translation: Oude volken en culturen in het Heilige Land. Trans. A. van Agen. Utrecht: Aula-Boeken (Het Spectrum). Freedman gives 232 pp.; the Dutch national catalog records 231.

  11. 1962 · Freedman A-43

    German translation: Archäologie in Palästina. Zürich: Benziger. 239 pp. + 48 pls. The plates are largely different from the English edition.

  12. 1964 · Freedman A-45

    Polish translation of the 1960 edition: Archeologia Palestyny. Trans. Stanisław Majchrzak. Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe (Biblioteka Problemów 74). 333 pp. Freedman does not name the publisher or the translator.

  13. 1971 · Freedman B-122

    Polish extract, slightly changed, of the Iron Age chapter: Epoka żelaza. In L. W. Stefaniak, ed., Archeologia Palestyny. Poznań. pp. 311–38.

Freedman 1975, A-21, A-23, A-25, A-29, A-31, A-32, A-37, A-40, A-41, A-43, A-45, B-122.

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