These lectures investigate the numerous miniature baked clay images from Canaan, Israel and Judah (c. 1600-600 BC). They constitute vital evidence for the imagery and domestic rituals of ordinary people, but significantly are not explicitly mentioned in the Old Testament. These terracottas are treated as a distinctive phenomenon with roots deep in prehistory and recurrent characteristics across millennia. Attention is focused on whether or not the female representations are worshippers of unknown deities or images of known goddesses, particularly in Early Israelite religion.
| ISBN: | 9780197262801 |
| Publication date: | 29th January 2004 |
| Author: | The late PRS , Formerly Acting Director, Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Fellow of the British Aca Moorey |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Fold-out book or chart |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology |
| Genres: |
Archaeology by period / region |