Dor, Coast. (in Hebrew)

Bulletin of the American …, 2008

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ARAM, 2015

Scholarship relating to the maritime nature of the Southern Levant depicts, for the most part, low-key, slow-paced activity. Indeed, the meager volume of this scholarship alone suggests as much, a fact which may explain the scarcity of references to the area in general Mediterranean literature. Several elements joined together to create such a picture, which is arguably inaccurate at best. Excessive attention has been awarded to the seamanship of the Jews, focusing mostly on written sources which are reticent on the issue. And, as far as concerns material evidence, particularism has dictated the tone in the approach of Israeli Archaeology towards the interpretation of coastal (and, indeed, dry-land-) sites; little has been done by way of a synthesized analysis, one that would supply finds with a wide, long-term historical context. Owing to the accumulating produce of local maritime and coastal archaeology, such biases and lacunae are now more readily remediable. Especially, excavations conducted in shallow water along the coast of Israel have recently been able to produce a critical mass of evidence, possibly sufficient for answering various general questions of historical nature. In Dor alone some twenty-five sites of interest have been identified, more than a third of which have been excavated and established to consist of shipwrecks from the period of Late Antiquity. It is the intention of the paper abstracted here to approach late antique Dor through the scope of maritime activity, and to supply it with a historiographical contextualisation.

Near Eastern Archaeology 74.3 (2011): 132-154.

T he 2010 excavation season at Tel Dor (located on Israel's Carmel coast) marked the thirtieth year of continuous study and excavation of this Mediterranean port town (figs. 1-2). 1 The longevity of modern investigation at Dor has meant that we have amassed a body of evidence substantial enough to contribute productively to questions of both local and broader significance, among them the beginning and development of Phoenician culture, patterns of trade in the eastern Mediterranean, and the impact of imperialism and changing foreign domination on the cities and cultures of the Levant. A previous contribution to this journal discussed the state of research on Dor's Iron Age . The current contribution picks up where that one left off, focusing on material and research connected to Dor's later history, when the town found itself at the center of an ever-expanding system of complex political and economic international relationships, as first the Babylonians, followed by the Persians, the Greeks and Macedonians, and finally the Romans all made their mark on the region.

T he 2010 excavation season at Tel Dor (located on Israel's Carmel coast) marked the thirtieth year of continuous study and excavation of this Mediterranean port town (figs. 1-2). 1 The longevity of modern investigation at Dor has meant that we have amassed a body of evidence substantial enough to contribute productively to questions of both local and broader significance, among them the beginning and development of Phoenician culture, patterns of trade in the eastern Mediterranean, and the impact of imperialism and changing foreign domination on the cities and cultures of the Levant. A previous contribution to this journal discussed the state of research on Dor's Iron Age . The current contribution picks up where that one left off, focusing on material and research connected to Dor's later history, when the town found itself at the center of an ever-expanding system of complex political and economic international relationships, as first the Babylonians, followed by the Persians, the Greeks and Macedonians, and finally the Romans all made their mark on the region.

This article discusses Israel's coastal plain in the Bronze and Iron Ages. The article begins by describing the geography of the region, and then describes the settlement in the area from the Chalcolithic period to the Persian period. The article also discusses the place of the region in the Bible, and its historical significance in some of the periods.

Scripta Mediterranea XXVII – XXVIII, 2007

Near Eastern Archaeology, 2008

The article discusses the status of the city of Dor under the Assyrian empire. Three kinds of evidence are analyzed in detail: the textual evidence, the archaeological results of the excavations conducted at the site and the status of Dor along the axis of time. The textual and the archaeological evidence reveal the importance of Dor's harbour for the Assyrians and its importance in the maritime trade along the east coast of the Mediterranean in the 7th century BCe, but they provide no decisive evidence about its place in the Assyrian province system. An examination of the status of Dor during the 11th-5th centuries BCe indicates that it was always the capital of a political entity, or of a distinct district within the larger province system. The analysis opens the door to the possibility that Dor was the capital of a separate Assyrian province that encompassed the coastal area between Mount Carmel in the north and the Jarkon River in the south, but more evidence is needed to decide whether this was indeed the case, or that Dor was a port in the confines of the province of Megiddo.

Prof. Itzhaq (Itzik) Beit-Arieh passed away on July 12, 2012, following a prolonged illness. He had just completed his final excavation report on Tel Malúata. This was a fitting coda to a prolific career spanning five decades, most of which was devoted to the study of the Negev and Sinai deserts in the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Survey of archaeological evidence in the Southern Levant relevant to the study of the Hebrew Bible.