2001-2 Volumes 37 & 38
Apologies are offered for the delay in publishing this
issue of Buried History. It is a double issue and corresponds to two
years of publication for which only one year’s subscription was
charged; the Institute was effectively closed during the period represented
by this issue. The Institute is going through a metamorphosis and will
be located at LaTrobe University from the middle of 2004 by which time
we hope to have dispatched Volume 39.
This edition of Buried History introduced changes in
format and arrangement. The journal is now an annual and is referred
so that contributors can reference their papers in their curriculum
vitae. The layout is based on the Archaeological and Anthropological
Society of Victoria’s journal, The Artefact, and we gratefully
acknowledge the template provided by Naomi Stevenson who produces that
journal. The papers in Buried History are intended to be comprehensible
by an informed general readership and the range of papers herein is
an indication of the scope of the journal.
Table of Contents
We begin by paying tribute to Dr John Thompson, the
first Director of the Institute. Before setting out on the study of
ancient languages and the Old Testament, Dr Thompson trained as a field
archaeologist and established the Institute in a professional way.
Articles
We are pleased to have a paper from Professor Emeritus
David Noel Freedman and Dr. Rebecca Frey on the Dome of the Rock. Professor
Freedman has been a supporter of the Institute for many years and we
shared his dismay when Aried Sharon provocatively entered the Haram
al-Sharif with 1000 security guards, an event that led to the killing
of a large number of Palestinians and precipitated the second intifada.
The paper is part of a project that Professor Freedman has embarked
upon to promote religious tolerance and inclusiveness. He calls the
project The Five Rivers of Paradise. Professor Freedman and Dr Frey
believe that the Dome of the Rock is sacred to the three religions that
recognise Abraham and that all three should be welcomed there.
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The editor has contributed a report on work undertaken
some years ago in the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara, Egypt.
A preliminary report was published at the time, albeit in German, and
is now presented with reference to work published in the field since
then. Read
Abstract
Matthew Whincop has provided a review of the Philistines’
religious culture, as we now understand it. Matthew was the Institute’s
librarian prior to his departure to the University of Durham where he
is now undertaking doctoral studies. Read
Abstract
Reviews and Brief Communications
Paul Lawrence again contributes a brief communication,
this time on a couple of names that may have been lost in the transmission
of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. Paul is a research assistant
to Professor Kenneth Kitchen at the University of Liverpool.
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Abstract
The publication of Dr. Jenny Webb’s 2002 Maurice
Kelly Lecture at the University of New England is reviewed by Dr. Kathryn
Eriksson. Dr. Eriksson is attached to LaTrobe University and is part
of the International SCIEM 2000 Project (The Synchronization of Civilization
in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd Millennium BC).
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Abstract
Christopher Davey
February 2004
Abstracts
The Dome
of the Rock - David Noel Freedman and
Rebecca L. Frey,
The history and uniqueness of the Dome
of the Rock and its locaiton are discussed. The current building has
occupied the site for more time than any other earlier building and
has a spiritual significance beyond any one religion. It is argued that
the three religions that recognize Abraham should generally accept the
building and by so doing find it a unifying feature.Read
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Excavation Technology used in the Cow Catacombs of the Sacred Animal
Necropolis, North Saqqara, Egypt - Christopher J. Davey,
The technology used in tomb excavation
in ancient Egypt has not been the subject of thorough investigation
to date. A ‘false end’ in the catacombs of the mother of
Apis bulls at the North Saqqara necropolis provides evidence of one
excavation sustem used by tomb excavators. Chisel marks and ‘cone’
excavations elsewhere in the catacombs provide some evidence of an alternative
practice. The paper interprets this evidence and shows that practices
used in ancient Egypt in principle at least are still applied today,
albeit in conjunction with explosives. It is noteworthy that the main
chisel types used in the contruction of the Cow Catacombs have not been
discovered in archaeological excavation in Egypt. Read
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Aspects
of Cultic Ritual within early Philistia: Who are you calling a Philistine?
- Matthew R. Whincop
Abstract: The origins
of the people of Philistia, often equated with the biblical ‘Philistines’,
has been a dominant interest in Palestinian archaeology, with much archaeological
investigation being structured around the various issues associated
with material culture and ethnicity. While the archaeological record
has been used to support various hypotheses of cultureal contact and
development, there has been little attempt to understand the archaeological
record of cult. Here the archaeological, and briefly the textual, data
is examined in an effort to illuminate the cultic ritual practiced within
Philistia during the early Iron Age. Read
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Reviews and Brief
Communications
Places
Hidden in the Old Testament - Paul J.N. Lawrence
The Old Testament contains some 8,500 proper names,
of which several thousand are place names. The overwhelming majority
of these place names have been identified as place names and have
been translated as such.
In this article I hope to look at two examples
where the traditional Hebrew text of the Old Testament may conceal a
hidden place name, and briefly comment on an example of the process
in reverse. Read More...
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Exploring
the Bronze Age in Cyrus: Australian Perspectives - Jennifer
M. Webb,
Jennifer M. Webb, Exploring the Bronze
Age in Cyprus. Australian Perspectives, Museum of Antiquities, Maurice
Kelly Lecture, University of New England, 2002 (36pp)
Reviewed by Kathrun O. Eriksson
This lecture was the fifth in a series
of public lectures established to honour Dr. Maurice Kelly and to recognise
his vision in establishing in the the 1950’s the Museum of Antiquities
at the University of New England – the onlt archaeological museum
at a non metropolitan university in Australia. The Museum has acquired
quite a significant collection of Cypriot artifacts since it was established.
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