Against Moab - Interrogating the Archaeology of Iron Age Jordan

Known as a place, a people, and a kingdom at various points in the second and first millennia BCE, Moab has long sustained the attention of archaeologists, philologists, and historians, in part because of its adjacent location to ancient Israel. The past 150 years of research in what is today west-central Jordan has proffered a significant corpus of evidence from the region's archaeological sites. However, a critical analysis of this evidence reveals significant gaps in knowledge that challenge attempts to narrate Moab's political, economic, and social history. This Element examines the evidence as well as the debates surrounding Moab's development and decline. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Landscape of West-Central Jordan; 2. Society and Subsistence across the Second Millennium; 3. Searching for Sihon, Seeking Balak and Eglon; 4. King Mesha's Vision of Moab; 5. Locating the Kingdom of Moab; 6. Beyond the Kemosh Cult ; 7. Responding to Assyrian Imperialism; 8. The End of Moab? ; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin W. Porter, Benjamin W. (University of California Porter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009547840
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0954784-0
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Elements in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Jordan, prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Middle Eastern history, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, Middle & Near Eastern archaeology, Iron Age