Joe D. Seger

The First Two Seasons at Tell Halif

A small bowl with a pomegranate molded at its center provides a clue for the identification of Tell Halif.

Further Excavations at Gezer, 1967-1971

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The Location of Biblical Ziklag

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Reflections on the Gold Hoard from Gezer

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Three Unpublished Ostraca from Gezer

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Archaeology of the Land of the Bible

Tel Halif and Tel Serac have been identified as the most likely sites of the town given to David by the king of Gath. Using biblical information as a guide, this paper evaluates the archaeological evidence in support of each site.

Economic Keystones: The Weight System of the Kingdom of Judah

One of the most exciting discoveries of the ten years of the Hebrew Union College excavations at Tell Gezer was made during the closing hours of the final summer campaign in 1973.1 It consisted of a small hoard of gold jewelry and other objects sequestered below the earthen floor of one of a series of Middle Bronze Age storerooms. Located along the fortification wall just inside the citys south gate in Field IV, these rooms had been sealed by a heavy cover of mudbrick debris left by the final destruction of the Middle Bronze city (see fig. 1).2 Trapped on the floors of rooms within the complex were numerous storage vessels, all representing typical late MB II to LB I types. Other rooms contained remains associated with domestic

Timnah (Tel Batash) II: The Finds from the First Millennium BCE

Excavations at Tell Gezer during Phase II of the Hebrew Union College operations in 1973 yielded three Aramaic items along with other fragmentary ostraca. The first, G73 Object #1973, consists of five broken lines, four of which are complete enough to be read tentatively as names: ʾḥmh (line 2); yhwḥn[n or yhwntn (3); yʾznyh b... or wʾznyh b... (4); ḥnynʾ (5). Stratigraphically, this ostracon must date no later than the initial phases of the Seleucid conquest and reconstruction in 198 B. C.; palaeographically, it falls into the first quarter or third of the second century. The second ostracon, G73 Object #1945, is a clearly written name, yhwsp br ḥnnyh, and possesses a stratigraphically determined terminus ad quem of the mid-second century on stratigraphic grounds. Palaeography points to an early Hasmonean date. The final epigraph, G73 Object #2213, is a palimpsest that is too fragmentary for a definite reading (although two are proposed). Stratigraphically, it is no later than ca. 140 B. C.