Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents IX
4. The Late Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi/Gath and the site’s role in Southwestern Canaan 1
5. The Wheat-People of Canaan 19
6. Late Bronze Age Azekah – an almost forgotten story 37
7. A reevaluation of Gezer in the Late Bronze Age in light of renewed excavations and recent scholarship 62
8. Tel Batash in the Late Bronze Age – a retrospect 86
9. First impression on the urban layout of the last Canaanite city of Lachish: a view from the northeast corner of the site 122
10. Lachish is Lachish on the Lachish bowl: an object lesson for reading Hieratic, with little surprising results 136
11. Tel Burna in the Late Bronze – assessing the 13th century BCE landscape of the Shephelah 148
12. Jerusalem in the Late Bronze Age – The Glass Half Full 171
13. Hebron in the Late Bronze Age: Discoveries of the of the American expedition to Hebron (Tell er-Rumeide) 185
14. The Transjordanian Jordan Valley in the Late Bronze Age: under Egyptian control? 217
15. Shifting meanings and values of Aegean-type pottery in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant 233
16. Prestige and authority in the Southern Levant during the Amarna Age 247
17. Southwestern Canaan and Egypt during the Late Bronze Age I–IIA 262
18. Index 283