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Socoh of the Judean Shephelah

The 2010 Survey

Yosef Garfinkel author Michael G Hasel author Shifra Weiss author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press

Published:12th Apr '17

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This is the first monograph dedicated to the site of Socoh in the Judean Shephelah. Our research was initiated in 2010 as an intensive survey by the Institute of Archaeology, Southern Adventist University, and the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The study incorporates historical sources that are listed and analyzed, including the Bible, ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, and Medieval records. A history of the research conducted over the past 190 years by explorers, geographers, and archaeologists is compiled, before providing the full report on the results of an intensive site survey conducted at Socoh in 2010.

Finally, specialized studies of the finds and a report of recent salvage excavations of burial caves, looted by antiquity robbers nearby, give a state-of-the-art presentation of the latest information known about this important biblical site in southern Judah.

“…this book is a very thorough and inclusive representation of the results of one week of intensive survey and many weeks of post-fieldwork analysis. This research is a good example that it is possible to get a quite detailed understanding of the history of the site of Socoh using only non-destructive techniques.”

—Eva Kaptijn Bibliotheca Orientalis

ISBN: 9781575067667

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm

Weight: 612g

240 pages