Challenging Dichotomies

Challenging Dichotomies and Biases in the Study of the Ancient Southern Levant BIERMANN, Bruno; KLEIN CARDOSO, Silas; PORZIA, Fabio; UEHLINGER, Christoph (Orgs.). Challenging Dichotomies and Biases in the Study of the Ancient Southern Levant. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. (Die Welt des Orients, Supplementary Issue).

The book “Challenging Dichotomies and Biases in the Study of the Ancient Southern Levant,” which I co-edited with Bruno Biermann, Fabio Porzia, and Christoph Uehlinger, was recently published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

As its title shows, the book addresses dichotomies and paradigms that have shaped or influenced the study of the region that comprises the modern states of Israel, Jordan, and Palestine from the second to the first millennium BCE. Specialists from different fields, working with different theories, methods and datasets, question paradigms that shape historical reconstructions, especially those that reduce complex, multifaceted and fluid realities to clear-cut dichotomies.

Thanks to the generous support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), you can freely access, download, and read the book through this link.