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Archaeology in the 'land of Tells and Ruins'
Bart . Ed(S): Wagemakers
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Description for Archaeology in the 'land of Tells and Ruins'
Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise in Jerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953-4 visited many archaeological sites in the area of present-day Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Editor(s): Wagemakers, Bart. Num Pages: 264 pages, b/w and col. illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAL; HDDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 289 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1394.
Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953–4 visited many archaeological sites in the area of present-day Israel and the Palestinian Territories. These documents inspired 20 internationally-renowned scholars – many of whom excavated at the sites they describe – to report on what we know today of nine particular sites chosen from the many that Leo Boer visited 60 years ago: Jerusalem, Khirbet et-Tell (Άi?), Samaria & Sebaste, Tell Balata (Shechem), Tell ... Read more
Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953–4 visited many archaeological sites in the area of present-day Israel and the Palestinian Territories. These documents inspired 20 internationally-renowned scholars – many of whom excavated at the sites they describe – to report on what we know today of nine particular sites chosen from the many that Leo Boer visited 60 years ago: Jerusalem, Khirbet et-Tell (Άi?), Samaria & Sebaste, Tell Balata (Shechem), Tell ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782972457
SKU
V9781782972457
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99-2
About Bart . Ed(S): Wagemakers
Bart Wagemakers is lecturer in Ancient and Religious History at the Institute Archimedes, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, and has an interest in the history of archaeology. He is the coordinator of the Non-Professional Archaeological Photographs project (www.npaph.com), which aims to preserve documentation of past archaeological campaigns and to make it accessible to the public via digital archives and publications. ... Read more
Reviews for Archaeology in the 'land of Tells and Ruins'
This is an unusual book, centring on photographs and travel notes by the late Leo Boer in the 1950s.[...]There is an additional feature on the PEF website of complementary Qumran photographs taken by Boer, at http://www.pef.org.uk/qumran/. There is a Preface by J. Zangenberg, a memoir of Boer by Wagmakers, a list of the photographs and several indexes. The editor has ... Read more