Tell en-Nasbeh

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Tell en-Nasbeh
תל א-נצבא‎
تل النصبة‎
Israelite, Second Temple Judaism
Site notes
ArchaeologistsWilliam Badè
ConditionIn ruins

Tell en-Nasbeh, likely the biblical city of

Byzantine
Periods (Stratum 1; 323 BCE – 630 CE).

Excavation history

The site was

American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), and represents one of the earliest scientific excavations in region. After Badè's untimely death in 1936, his colleagues compiled and published a 2-volume final report for the excavation.[2][3]

The original dig records, specifically the stratigraphic evidence, were later re-analyzed and published by Jeffrey R. Zorn of Cornell University.[4] Research of the Tell en-Nasbeh collection continues today, both by staff of the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion (formerly the Palestine Institute, then Badè Institute of Biblical Archaeology) and by outside scholars from around the world.[5]

Museum staff are also involved in a huge multi-year project to digitize over 5,800 objects that comprise the Tell en-Nasbeh collection.[5] This project, based in Open Context,[6] is in collaboration with staff of the Alexandria Archive Institute in San Francisco, CA.

Occupational history

Tell en-Nasbeh was a small

Early Bronze I periods. It was then abandoned until the beginning of the Iron Age, around the 10th century BCE, when it became a sizable agricultural village.[7] By Iron Age II (9th–8th centuries BCE), it was a walled settlement with a massive city gate, on the frontier between the southern and northern Israelite kingdoms.[1]

Byzantine church near the western cemetery, speak to some occupation in later periods.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Tell en-Nasbeh: Biblical Mizpah of Benjamin". The College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University.
  2. ^ McCown, C. C. 1947. "Tell en-Nasbeh I: Archaeological and Historical Results." Pacific Institute of Pacific School of Religion and American Schools of Oriental Research, Berkeley and New Haven.
  3. ^ Wampler, J. C. 1947. "Tell en-Nasbeh II: The Pottery." Palestine Institute of Pacific School of Religion and American Schools of Oriental Research, Berkeley and New Haven.
  4. ^ Zorn, J. R. 1993. "Tell en Nasbeh: A Re-evaluation of the Architecture and Stratigraphy of the Early Bronze Age, Iron Age and Later Periods." Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of California Berkeley.
  5. ^ a b "Tell en-Nasbeh Database". Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology at Pacific School of Religion.
  6. ^ "Tell en-Nasbeh Collection at the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology". Open Context.
  7. ^ a b Zorn, J. R. 1993. 'Tell en-Nasbeh.' Pp. 1098-1102 in The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, ed. E. Stern. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society & Carta.
  8. ^ a b Finkelstein, I., & Silberman, N. A. (2002). The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. Simon and Schuster. p. 307
  9. ^ "1 Maccabees, Chapter 3".

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