Tel Reḥov

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Tel Reḥov (תל רחוב) is a large city mound in the Beth Shean Valley—part of the central Jordan Valley—situated some 5 km south of Tel Beth Shean and 3 km west of the Jordan River.

The site represents one of the largest ancient city mounds in Israel, its surface area comprising 120,000 m² in size, divided into an "Upper City" (40,000 m²) and a "Lower City" (80,000 m²).

Contents 1 Identification 2 Excavation 3 Bibliography 4 External links

Identification

Excavation

Bibliography

• Bruins, H., van der Plicht, J. and Mazar, A. [2003a], "14C Dates from Tel Rehov: Iron Age Chronology, Pharaohs, and Hebrew Kings", Science, Volume 300, No. 5617, (11 April 2003), pp.315-318. html
  • [2003b], "Response to Comment on “14C Dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age Chronology, Pharaohs and Hebrew Kings”", Science 302, (24 October 2003), p.568c. html

• Bruins, H.J., van der Plicht, J., Mazar, A., Bronk Ramsey, C. and Manning, S. W. [2005], "The Groningen Radiocarbon Series from Tel Rehov: OxCal Bayesian computations for the Iron IB-IIA boundary and the Iron IIA Destruction Events", in Levy, T.E. and Higham, T. (eds), The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating - Archaeology, Text and Science, London: Equinox, 2005, pp.271-293. ISBN 184553056X (cloth) ISBN 1845530578 (paper) pdf

• Coldstream, N. and Mazar, A. [2003], "Greek Pottery from Tel Rehov and Iron Age Chronology", IEJ 53 (2003), pp.29-48. html

• Finkelstein, Israel [2004], "Tel Rehov and Iron Age Chronology", Levant 36 (2004), pp.181-188.

• Finkelstein, Israel and Piasetzky, Eli [2006], "¹⁴C and the Iron Age Chronology Debate: Rehov, Khirbet en-Nahas, Dan and Megiddo", Radiocarbon 48.3 (2006), pp.373-386. pdf

• Gal, Zvi and Zori, Nehemya [2005], "A Middle Bronze Age IIB—Late Bronze Age I Burial Cave at ʿEn Nashab, in the Bet Sheʾan Valley", ʿAtiqot 49 (2005), pp.17-31.

• Golani, Amir and Kohn-Tavor, Achia [2005], "Tel Rehov - Two Shaft Tombs", HA-ESI (2006). English report Hebrew report

• Mazar, Amihai [1999], "The 1997-1998 Excavations at Tel Reḥov: Preliminary Report", IEJ 49 (1999), pp.1-42. html
  • [2003a], "Three 10th-9th Century B.C.E. Inscriptions from Tel Reḥov", in C. G. den Hertog, U. Hübner and S. Münger (eds.), Saxa loquentur: Studien zur Archäologie Palästinas/Israels. Festschrift für Volkmar Fritz zum 65. Geburtstag, [Alter Orient und Altes Testament 302], Münster, 2003, pp.171-184. html
  • [2003b], "The Excavations at Tel Reḥov and their Significance for the Study of the Iron Age in Israel", Eretz Israel 27 (2003), pp.143-160 (Hebrew).
  • [2004], "Greek and Levantine Iron Age Chronology: A Rejoinder", IEJ 54 (2004), pp.24-36.
  • [2007a], "Tel Rehov", HA-ESI 119 (2007). html
  • [2007b], "An Ivory Statuette Depicting an Enthroned Figure from Tel Reḥov", in Bickel, Sussane, Schroer, Sylvia, Schurte, René and Uehlinger, Christoph (eds), Bilder als Quellen / Images as Sources—Studies on ancient Near Eastern artefacts and the Bible inspired by the work of Othmar Keel, [OBO Sonderband / Special volume], 2007, pp.101-110, pl.XIX. ISBN 9783727816130

• Mazar, A., Bruins, H.J., Panitz-Cohen, N. and van der Plicht, J. [2005], "Ladder of Time at Tel Reḥov: Stratigraphy, Archaeological Context, Pottery and Radiocarbon Dating", in Levy, T.E. and Higham, T. (eds), The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating - Archaeology, Text and Science, London: Equinox, 2005, pp.193-255. ISBN 184553056X (cloth) ISBN 1845530578 (paper) pdf

• Mazar, A. and Camp, J. [2000], "Will Tel Rehov save the United Monarchy?", BAR 26.2 (2000), pp.38-51.

• Mazar, A. and Carmi, I. [2001], "Radiocarbon Dates from Iron Age Strata at Tel Beth-Shean and Tel Reḥov", Radiocarbon 43.3 (2001), pp.1333-1342. html pdf

• Mazar, A. and Panitz-Cohen, Nava [2007], "It is the Land of Honey: Beekeeping at Tel Reḥov", NEA 70.4 (2007), pp.202-219.
  • [2008], "To What God? Altars and a House Shrine from Tel Rehov Puzzle Archaeologists", BAR 34.4 (2008), pp.40-47.

• van der Plicht, J. and Bruins, H.J. [2005], "Quality Control of Groningen 14C Results from Tel Rehov: Repeatability and Intercomparison of Proportional Gas Counting and AMS", in Levy, T.E. and Higham, T. (eds), The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating - Archaeology, Text and Science, London: Equinox, 2005, pp.256-270. ISBN 184553056X (cloth) ISBN 1845530578 (paper) pdf

External links

• the Beth-Shean Valley Archaeological Project - Tel Rehov Excavations - web site of the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

• The Beehives of Tel Rehov - video footage and brief interview with Professor Amihai Mazar, courtesy of SourceFlix Productions