Wagemakers bart ed (1 Ergebnisse)

Oxford-Philadelphia, Oxbow Books, 2014. Or.cloth. XV, 264 pp. Printed in double cols. Richly illustrated. Large 4to. Handwritten dedication of the editor on first endleaf. In good condition. * Based on a travel account and 700 photographs by Leo Boer (1926-2009), a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem who visited many archaeological sites in the area of present-day Israel and the Palestinian Territories in the years 1953-1954. These documents inspired 20 internationally-renowned scholars - many of whom excavated at the sites they describe - to report on what we know today of nine particular sites chosen from the many that Leo Boer visited 70 years ago: Jerusalem, Khirbet et-Tell (?i?), Samaria & Sebaste, Tell Balata (Shechem), Tell es-Sultan (Jericho), Khirbet Qumran, Caesarea, Megiddo, and Bet She'an. Rather than focusing on the history of these sites, the contributors describe the history of the archaeological expeditions.…