Shechem III
The Stratigraphy and Architecture of Shechem/Tell Balatah: Two Volume Set

This volume presents the stratigraphy and architectural remains of the tell of ancient (biblical) Shechem on the eastern outskirts of the modern municipality of Nablus, in what was at the time of excavation the independent village of Balatah. First identified as an ancient ruin and proposed as ancient Shechem in 1903, the site was excavated by an Austro-German team in the period between 1913 and 1934, and by the Drew-McCormick Archaeological Expedition, later named the Joint Expedition, between 1956 and 1973. Now, 87 years after Ernest Sellin began the dig, and 27 years after the expedition mounted by G. Ernest Wright left the field, this volume sets out to give that sort of portrayal to this mound of ancient cities that began its history at least 4000 years BCE and ended its premodern history in 107 BCE.

VOLUME 1

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Earliest Strata: Chalcolithic/Early Bronze I and Middle Bronze IIA

Chapter 2: The Middle Bronze IIB Period

Chapter 3: The Middle Bronze IIC Period

Chapter 4: The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron I

Chapter 5: The Iron Age

Chapter 6: The Hellenistic Period

References

VOLUME 2

Introduction

Appendix: Basic Survey Data

List of Illustrations

Illustrations

Register of Shechem Publication Plans and Drawings

Edward F. Campbell is the Professor Emeritus at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.

G.R.H. Wright studied history, law and architecture. He taught at the University of Munich and spent a lifetime recording and restoring monuments throughout the Mediterranean, the Middle East, East Africa and Southern India. His many publications include equally works on the History of Architecture and on the History of Religion, as also technical accounts of restoration projects.