70 January/February 2018be one example of a civic innovation
brought about by bi-partisan means for
the mutual benefit of Jerusalem. a(^1) William Rathje and Cullen Murphy, Rubbish!
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ungen zu Baurath Dr. C. Schick’s Karte der
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Jerusalem, 2012), pp. 141–184. For a different
Holy Landfill
continued from page 45
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Deuteronomy 23:13–15.
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Flesh,” Body & Society 1.1 (1995), p. 95.
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Words Unseen
continued from page 59
(^1) We would like to thank Amnon Ben-Tor,
Shlomit Bechar, and the late Sharon Zucker-
man for their help with and support of our
study of the Hazor basalt vessel workshop.
(^2) For details, see Jennie Ebeling and Danny
Rosenberg, “A Basalt Vessel Workshop and Its
Products at Iron Age Hazor, Israel,” Journal of
Field Archaeology 40.6 (2015), pp. 665–674.
(^3) See Pirhiya Beck, “Stone Ritual Artifacts and
Statues from Area A and H,” in Amnon Ben-
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Israel Exploration Society, 1989), pp. 322–338.
(^4) Rachael T. Sparks, Stone Vessels in the Levant
(Leeds: Maney, 2007), p. 178.
(^5) Amnon Ben-Tor, Hazor: Canaanite Metropo-
lis, Israelite City (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration
Society, 2016), pp. 127–129.
(^6) Doron Ben-Ami, “Hazor at the Beginning of
the Iron Age,” Near Eastern Archaeology 76.2
(2013), pp. 105–109.
Hazor Stones
continued from page 51
(^7) Sharon Zuckerman, “Ruin Cults at Iron
Age I Hazor,” in Israel Finkelstein and Nadav
Na’aman, eds., The Fire Signals of Lachish:
Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel
in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian
Period in Honor of David Ussishkin (Winona
Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011), pp. 387–394.
(^8) Zuckerman, “Ruin Cults,” p. 388.
(^9) Zuckerman, “Ruin Cults,” p. 389.
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