Recent archaeology in the land of Israel /  
edited by Hershel Shanks, (English edition) and Benjamin Mazar, (Hebrew edition) translated by Aryeh Finklestein. 
 - English ed. ; Second  printing 1985. 
 - Washington ;  Jerusalem :  Biblical Archaeology Society ;  Israel Exploration Society,  c1984. 
 - xii, 194 p. :   ill., port. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Translation of : Sheloshim shenot arkheʾologyah be-Erets Yiśraʾel, 708-738/1948-1978.  Title on added t.p. of Hebrew edition : Thirty years of archaeology in Eretz-Israel, 1948-1978.  "Hebrew edition ... consisted of papers delivered at the 35th Archaeological Convention of the Israel Exploration Society in 1978."--P. xi.  
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>To Joseph Aviram / Benjamin Mazar --  English Editor's Foreword / Hershel Shanks -- I. Excavations and Discoveries -- Research on Stone Age Archaeology in Israel Since 1948 / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- At the Dawn of History - The Chalcolithic Period and the Early Bronze Age / Ammon Ben-Tor -- "At That Time the Canaanites Were in the Land..." / Moshe Kochavi  -- In the Days When the Judges Ruled-Research on the Period of the Settlement and the Judges / Trude Dothan -- Archaeological Research on the Period of the Monarchy (Iron Age II) -- Inscriptions of the Biblical Period / Joseph Naveh -- Archaeological Research on the Period of the Return to Zion / Ephraim Stern -- Archaeological Discoveries from the Greco-Roman Era / Lee I. Levine -- Research on Ancient Synagogues in the Land of Israel / Moshe Dothan -- Ancient Churches / Yoram Tsafrir -- Archaeological Research on the Islamic Period / Myriam Rosen-Ayalon -- Archaeological  Research on the Crusader Period / Joshua Prawer --  II. " Break Forth Together Into Singing, You Waste Places of Jerusalem" -- Jerusalem - "The City Full of People" / Nahman Avigad -- The Royal Stoa in the Southern Part of the Temple Mount / Benjamin Mazar -- Past and Present in Archaeological  Research on the City of David / Yigal Shiloh -- III. Israel Through the Ages -- The Monarchy of David and Solomon / Avraham Malamat -- The Birth of the Hasmonean State / Uriel Rappaport -- The Lachish Letters - Originals or Copies and Drafts? / Yigael Yadin -- Geographical Changes in Israel Since 1948 / David Amiran. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated by Aryeh Finklestein from the Hebrew. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Aviram, Joseph, 1917- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Excavations (Archaeology) --Israel--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Israel --Antiquities--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS111    / R43 1984