{"title":"The Murder of James Leslie Starkey near Lachish. A different view from a Colonial Office file","authors":"Josef Mario Briffa SJ","doi":"10.1080/00310328.2021.1904172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2021.1904172","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Prof. Yosef Garfinkel’s recent article in the PEQ builds an intriguing case linking the murder of James Leslie Starkey in January 1938 with resentment relating to the expropriation of lands at Tell ed-Duweir. A file from the Colonial Office, held at the National Archives at Kew, London, sheds some further light to the original police investigation, and provides an interesting counternarrative to the one suggested by Garfinkel, supporting the original understanding of the murder within the context of the political upheavals in Palestine during the British Mandate.","PeriodicalId":44359,"journal":{"name":"Palestine Exploration Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00310328.2021.1904172","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43458178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles Warren: Royal Engineer in the Age of Empire","authors":"A. Manson","doi":"10.1080/00310328.2021.1965715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2021.1965715","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":44359,"journal":{"name":"Palestine Exploration Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43358223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machaerus I: History, Archaeology and Architecture of the Fortified Herodian Royal Palace and City Overlooking the Dead Sea in Transjordan. Final Report of the Excavations and Surveys 1807–2012","authors":"Joanna E. Taylor","doi":"10.1080/00310328.2021.1900147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2021.1900147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44359,"journal":{"name":"Palestine Exploration Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00310328.2021.1900147","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49373372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Mediaeval and Ottoman Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca: The Pilgrim Camps in their Landscapes","authors":"C. Dauphin","doi":"10.1080/00310328.2021.1902649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2021.1902649","url":null,"abstract":"And proclaim to the people the Hajj [pilgrimage]; they will come to you on foot and on every lean camel; they will come from every distant pass, that they may witness benefits for themselves and mention the name of Allah on known days over what He has provided for them of [sacrificial] animals. So eat of them and feed the miserable and poor. Then let them end their untidiness and fulfil their vows and perform Tawaf around the ancient House (Kuran 22, The Pilgrimage, 27–30).","PeriodicalId":44359,"journal":{"name":"Palestine Exploration Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00310328.2021.1902649","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43397151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Flip or not to Flip","authors":"Christina Gelhausen","doi":"10.1080/00310328.2021.1924490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2021.1924490","url":null,"abstract":"Several decades ago, when I was a postgraduate student, I was confronted with the wellknown pitfalls of relying too heavily on coins when assigning dates to archaeological loci/contexts. I was trying to make sense of the stratigraphy of the Byzantine period at the Transjordanian site of Tell Hesban (now transliterated Tall Hisban) and in the process encountered numerous coins with findspots accurately recorded. Several archaeologists had been very generous with their use of numismatic evidence to narrow the chronological horizons in multiple excavations in Transjordan. But even in the 1970s and 1980s it was commonly accepted that the obvious chronological use of a coin was to provide a secure terminus post quem date. The reason is obvious. Numismatists can often identify the mint date of a coin if it is sufficiently legible, and this date can at times be even a particular time of a given year. It is not difficult to see how such an accurately datable tool at times became misused in a field of study that was more or less obsessed with chronology. But the date of the placement of a coin must be determined by the locus/ context where it is found; the coin does not date that locus/context. Since it is often difficult in the process of excavation to know whether the date of a coin coincides with the date of the locus/context where it was found, one must question whether it is ever safe to use coins to verify dates other than a terminus post quem. This leads to the question whether it can be shown objectively that coins provide an acceptable or unacceptable means of dating their findspots. In an attempt to answer this question, the numismatic evidence from two sites—Tell Hesban 1968–1976 and Pella 1967—were subjected to a simple statistical test, the Binomial Probability Calculator test. This test conducted in collaboration with my colleague, James K. Brower, provided a more objective measure of the reliability of using numismatic evidence as a safe indicator of findspot dating. There are many situations where a test has only two possible outcomes, true or false (yes or no). For example, in flipping a coin one would expect one of two outcomes—heads, or tails. Or, given a coin that has been excavated; it can either date its findspot accurately, or not date it accurately. Associated with such situations is a ratio which represents the expected frequencies of occurrence of each of these possible outcomes. In other words, under a given theory of operation for the situation under study, one outcome will be expected a certain percentage of the time, while the rest of the time the other outcome will be expected. This is the binomial probability. The reliability of coins as a means of dating their findspot could be determined absolutely only by excavating all coins at all sites and then comparing their mint dates with the dates of the findspot locus/context as established by other means and tallying the results. This kind of an examination of the total populat","PeriodicalId":44359,"journal":{"name":"Palestine Exploration Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00310328.2021.1924490","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43083517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The loss of a minute is just so much loss of life’: Edward Robinson and Eli Smith in the Holy Land","authors":"J. R. Bartlett","doi":"10.1080/00310328.2021.1901378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2021.1901378","url":null,"abstract":"Every scholar interested in the identification of biblical placenames will know of the work of Robinson and Smith—their new identification of some 170 biblical sites, their exploration of the Siloa...","PeriodicalId":44359,"journal":{"name":"Palestine Exploration Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00310328.2021.1901378","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48675693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The representation of Judaea on Hadrian’s coins","authors":"P. Cimadomo","doi":"10.1080/00310328.2021.1892987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2021.1892987","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Emperor Hadrian is known for his passion for travels. However, his action was driven by specific political goals. These goals were related to the need to unify the Roman empire. The emperor was aware that relations between the ancient cities and the colonies founded by his predecessors had to be rebalanced. Between 134 and 138, the emperor Hadrian and the Senate minted an enormous variety of coins that featured some of the provinces, and occasionally the cities, of the Roman empire. There are essentially three types of monetary issuances representing the provinces during the reign of Hadrian: the Natio (or Provincia) type; the Adventus type; the Restitutor type. Among them, the coins depicting the personification of Judaea constitute a special issuance that needs a more detailed analysis. In particular, the unusual presence of various numbers of children has already attracted several scholars, but the meaning of their presence is still unknown. This paper aims to study these coins in order to highlight the relationship between Hadrian and Judaea.","PeriodicalId":44359,"journal":{"name":"Palestine Exploration Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00310328.2021.1892987","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43159566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Something borrowed, something new? Semitic loanwords and transcriptions in the Greek epigraphy of Palestine and Arabia","authors":"Michael Zellmann-Rohrer","doi":"10.1080/00310328.2021.1892986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2021.1892986","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article considers Semitic loanwords and transcriptions in the Greek epigraphy of the southern Levant, roughly corresponding to the Roman provinces of Judaea–Palaestina and Arabia, through three case studies entailing Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic as source languages. The texts are a bilingual Hebrew–Greek ossuary inscription from a burial cave in Jerusalem; a Greek mosaic inscription from the cathedral church of Madaba; and a bilingual Greek–Old Arabic rock-cut graffito from Wadi Salma in north-west Arabia. This consideration complements a similar survey for Syria and Phoenicia by J.-B. Yon and reinforces his conclusion of a connection between loanwords and epichoric religious traditions. It also provides a counterpoint to the more recent study of J. Price and S. Naeh, who associate transcription with ‘marginality’ and ‘liminality’; the cases assembled here show that, at least for the inscribers, the practice was instead centrally integrated with religion and culture.","PeriodicalId":44359,"journal":{"name":"Palestine Exploration Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00310328.2021.1892986","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42638690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}