And yet another article on Safi

We have been informed by David Schloen, that the new Festschrift in honor of Larry Stager (that David edited) is about to appear and will be presented to Larry during the coming ASOR meeting in Boston.

Among the many VERY interesting articles in the book (some of which have already been sent to me courtesy of the authors), there is also an article on Tell es-Safi/Gath by yours truly.

Special issue of IJES – Archaeological Science in Israel

Today, the special issue of the Israel Journal of Earth Sciences (56 (2-4): 2007) dedicated to “Archaeological Science in Israel” has appeared. This triple issue, which was edited by Elisabetta Boaretto, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Sariel Shalev, Ehud Weiss and Steve Weiner, contains a collection of articles that summarize what’s happening in Israel in some of the main fields of archaeological science (see table of contents here).

Tell es-Safi/Gath on the “Palestine Remembered” site

Nachum Appelbaum has been kind enough to point me towards new materials about Tell es-Safi/Gath that appear on the “Palestine Remembered” website. This site, which has a lot of material on the Palestinian villages throughout Israel, has a page each village. For those of you who do comb through this website, you should be aware that you will be getting a very specific “narrative” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What can I say – things are (and were) a bit more complex than is presented…