Heritage
Archaeology
Egypt
Canaan
Israel
100
Highly symbolic migration.
What is the Exodus (Conquest)?
100
Near Eastern archaeologists use them more than anything else to interpret dates and cultures.
What are artifacts?
100
Unifying earliest king of Egypt
What is Narmer?
100
Political system borrowed from Mesopotamia.
What is a city-state?
100
Principal sites representing early Israel to many scholars.
What are hill country settlements?
200
Anthropological approach to the Biblical text
What is ethnoarchaeology?
200
Most informative things found at pre-pottery Neolithic archaeological sites.
What are stone tools?
200
Egypt's most powerful epoch.
What is the New Kingdom?
200
Most significant difference between Early Israelite and Canaanite material culture.
What is nothing?
200
Important founding fathers that there is no archaeological evidence for.
What are Abraham,Isaac, Jacob--the patriarchs?
300
Non-scholarly motivation for archaeology.
What is nationalism (religion) (ethnicity) (ideology)?
300
Near Eastern archaeologists find them and discard them by the hundreds but nevertheless need them.
What are potsherds?
300
Egypt's primary enemy in the North.
What are Hittites?
300
Things that are plentiful in Egypt and Mesopotamia but strangely lacking in Bronze Age Canaan.
What are texts (inscriptions, historical records)?
300
Shasu and Habiru in Egyptian Texts.
What are semitic laborers in Egypt called?
400
Principal type of archaeology still practiced in Israel.
What is Biblical Archaeology?
400
The earliest of structures built by organized groups.
What are temples? What is Gobekli Tepe?
400
Semitic invaders of Egypt.
What are Hyksos?
400
Egyptian immortalized in literature who sought refuge in Canaan and stayed.
What is Sinuhe?
400
First leaders of Israel.
What are the Judges?
500
Perpetual state ssociated with both the ancient and the modern Middle East.
What is conflict?
500
Anthropologists don't like the concept but Near Eastern Archaeologists can't live without it.
What is (diffusion) (migration) (collapse)?
500
Characteristic of New Kingdom Pharaohs.
What is a warrior-king?
500
Most important Canaanite city conquered by a king of Israel.
What is Jerusalem?
500
There is a little bit of evidence for one but not for the other.
What are David and Solomon?
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