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This paper examines the history of Palestine during the Hellenistic period, emphasizing the role of archaeological evidence alongside traditional historical narratives. It argues that, despite significant military events, the region experienced a largely peaceful and prosperous era characterized by commercial and religious continuity. The study highlights key archaeological findings, such as material culture and settlement patterns, to understand the daily lives of inhabitants and the effects of historical upheavals.
Journal of Hellenistic Pottery and Material Culture, 2023
The current article re-evaluates the pottery assemblages of sites in the southern Levant in order to distinguish, for the first time, between those occupied in the late 4th century BCE, namely in the late Persian period or in the very early Hellenistic period, and those occupied in the early 3rd century BCE – roughly during the reign of Ptolemy II. The insights gained from this re-evaluation are used to outline changes in settlement patterns during the transition between the Persian and the Hellenistic periods and to address the nature of the transition between the periods – whether it was smooth and accompanied by a period of prosperity as was argued by previous archaeological studies, or whether it was a period of instability and decline as seen from literary evidence.
The Transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic Period in the Levant, Cyprus and Cilicia: Cultural Interruption or Continuity? (Proceedings of the Symposium at Philipps Universität Marburg October 12-15, 2017). Marburger Beiträge zur Archäologie 6. Marburg., 2020
Times of Transition: Judea in the Early Hellenistic Period, 2021
Times of Transition, 2021
Review of Rabbinic Judaism, 2006
The Historian, 2008
The Cambridge Social Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean: Israel, Palestine, and Jordan., 2019
The Hellenistic era opens with Alexander the Great’s triumph over Achaemenid Persia, an event that inaugurates a millennium of western political hegemony over the Levant and paves the way for an infusion of western cultural ideas. This chapter explores the social repercussions of this juncture of politics and culture for five self-identifying ethnoi within the region: Tyrians, Sidonians, Samaritans, Idumeans, and Judeans. Material and written evidence reflects the development of individual agency, opportunity, status, and authority. In the later second century B.C.E., when waning imperial powers left the region’s ethnoi effectively autonomous, Judeans unleashed an aggressive program of territorial acquisition, most successfully against Idumeans and Samaritans. Contemporary writers turned these events into historical accounts that offered people templates by which to situate themselves in place and history, templates ill-suited for co-existence. By the later first century B.C.E., under Herod and successor Roman authorities, the social landscape was mined and ready to erupt.
Journal of Historical Geography, 2004
Late Antiquity (2nd -7th centuries C.E.) is considered to be the most populated period in the history of Palestine. This article deals with the reasons and mechanisms that allowed this population growth. Most scholars believe that the population growth should be attributed to the theological change that took place during the 4th century, when Palestine became the 'Holy Land'. Based on recent archaeological surveys and excavations, it is argued that the reason for this unique phenomenon is rooted in the fact that Palestine came directly under Roman rule and underwent a process of indirect-Romanization. The local inhabitants took advantage of the environmental circumstances provided by the Roman ruler to dedicate their time to nurturing their culture, settlements, and economic situation. Cash crops such as grapes and olives were becoming increasingly more widespread. Vast areas of wasteland, previously considered unsuitable for agriculture, were becoming densely cultivated. Uncultivated slopes, enclaves of poor-quality soil or marshes, semi-arid patches and desert areas, all uninhabited and uncultivated before Late Antiquity, were now added to the arable land. q
Jürgen K. Zangenberg and Dianne van de Zande 2010, ‘Chapter 9. Urbanization’, in Catherine Hezser (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 165-188, 2010
From Temple to Church: Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 163), 2008
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 2004
This paper outlines the centrality of the Late Roman period in the settlement history of Palestine, and the marginal contribution of the Christian establishment to the development of the land. Settlement momentum during these periods resulted from the fact that Palestine was part of the Roman Empire. The historical trends in Palestine should be regarded as part of a broader political settlement drive that characterized the eastern parts of the Roman realm during the period under discussion. The argument that the process of expansion was unique and stemmed from Palestine's holiness in the eyes of the Christian world is unfounded.
Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, 2022
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Andrea Berlin