Trude Dothan, the doyenne of Philistine archaeology. Photo: Hershel Shanks.
Posted on 02/04/2016 10:09:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Trude Dothan, the doyenne of Philistine archaeology, passed away recently at the age of 93. A pioneer in Israeli archaeology, Dothan was a world-renowned expert on the Philistines. She excavated at Athienou (Cyprus), Hazor, Ein Gedi, Tel Qasile, Tell ‘Aitun, Deir el-Balah and Tel Miqne (Biblical Ekron). The excavations at Tel Miqne, which she codirected with Seymour Gitin between 1981 and 1996, unearthed evidence that proved to be dramatically significant to our understanding of Philistine history and culture.
Dothan, who had been a Professor of Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, published many studies on the Philistines, on the emergence of the Sea Peoples in the eastern Mediterranean and on the appearance of iron in Philistia. Her landmark work is The Philistines and Their Material Culture (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1982).
She was married to fellow Israeli archaeologist Moshe Dothan, one of the founding members of the Department of Maritime Civilizations and the Department of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, from 1950 until his death in 1999.
In commemoration of Trude Dothan's pioneering achievements, the following Biblical Archaeology Review articles have been made free and publicly available:
[six papers]
In our free eBook Frank Moore Cross: Conversations with a Bible Scholar Hershel Shanks conducts five interviews with the renowned Bible scholar.
(Excerpt) Read more at biblicalarchaeology.org ...
Trude Dothan, the doyenne of Philistine archaeology. Photo: Hershel Shanks.
Two hoards dating to the seventh century B.C.E. were uncovered in the excavations at Tel Miqne, directed by Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin. The hoards, which contained 19 silver ingots and 66 pieces of silver, give a glimpse of the wealth enjoyed by Biblical Ekron. Photo: Ilan Sztulman.
In commemoration of Trude Dothan's pioneering achievements, the following Biblical Archaeology Review articles have been made free and publicly available:
Trude Dothan, "What We Know About the Philistines," Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1982.
Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin, "Sea Peoples Saga: Ekron of the Philistines," Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1990.
Trude Dothan, "Sea Peoples Saga: Ekron of the Philistines, Part I: Where They Came From, How They Settled Down and the Place They Worshiped In," Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1990.
Hershel Shanks, "The Philistines and the Dothans: An Archaeological Romance, Part 1," Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1993.
Hershel Shanks, "The Philistines and the Dothans: An Archaeological Romance, Part 2," Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1993.
Trude Dothan, "Cultural Crossroads," Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1998.
Trude Dothan, "Philistine Fashion," Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2003.
Hershel Shanks, "Queen of the Philistines: BAR Interviews Trude Dothan," Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2010.
There probably are not any Middle East muslim women of this stature.
Wow, thanks!
There are NO Mohammedan women of ANY stature.
Fixed.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I always understood the “Sea People’s” meant the Phoenicians. sp?
Thanks JV. The Sea Peoples weren't a distinct, otherwise unknown group, although given their lack of a homeland, lack of burial grounds or distinctive burials, lack of any inscriptions or sign of their own language, and the list goes on and on, basically no cultural remains *at all*, they are mythical. They are known from a couple of later New Kingdom texts in Egypt, and that's all there is. The problem is, the conventional chronology is a pseudochronology that assigns dates to a number of pharaonic dynasties that are too high. This has been borne out by (for example) the radiocarbon dating of the innards of Ramses II "the Great", preserved in his canopic jars, and over 700 years 'too young'.
Nancy Sandars wrote a monograph on the Sea Peoples so-called, and yes, they were not "a" discrete group, but rather several.
There are material remains linkable to the Sea Peoples through documentary evidence in the monuments of Egypt, which offers physiognomic descriptions of the Sea Peoples and names of certain leaders captured by the Pharaohs Merneptah (or Merne-Ptah, separating out the god-name) and Ramesses III.
There were actually four intersections spread over time, these being two wars with Libya in which the Sea Peoples appeared as allies of the Libyan king. (These Libyans were Caucasian, related to the Ligurians and other North African peoples who crossed into Europe in remote antiquity and engendered the Windmill Hill Culture that built the henges in England, and also to the Minoans and to the so-called "Argive" Greeks.)
The two later incidents were irruptions of the Sea Peoples, the first by direct assault from the sea, defended by Delta Egyptians under Merneptah, and a later land invasion met and defeated by Ramesses III about 1180 BC. The land invasion was more in the nature of a migration similar to what we are seeing now, originating in the Greek islands and western Anatolia, as witness the fact that the Egyptian monument to the occasion (accompanied by the Trumpian inscription, "You [Pharaoh] have muzzled the mouths of the insolent / And bound your yoke upon the proud") shows the Egyptian infantry meeting and overrunning the head of the Sea Peoples' column, which was made up not of a vanguard of fighting men, but of oxcarts containing families (a man is shown lifting one of his boys out of the cart and passing him down to his mother). The inference is that the Egyptians surprised the migrants and caught them cold.
The names associated with the Sea Peoples in the inscriptional evidence and preserved diplomatic correspondence of the time suggest that the Peoples were, in fact,
Keying on and metasearching on any of these names should bring up a wealth of information.
After the land invasion, Ramesses settled the migrants in client-state lands in what is now Philistia, Gaza, and Phoenicia.
One last note: The Danaans are possibly the people known to the composers of the Vedic Hymns as the "Danawo", an enemy people whom the Proto-Indo-Iranians knew on the steppes east of the Caspian Sea; their Homeric name is "Danawoi' ", accent on last syllable as in Proto-Indo-European; and as the "Danuna" they were settled first in Philistia, but then moved after a couple of generations to the northern Levant and modern Syria; and there they proselytized, and became the Tribe of Dan. In this way, one people appears in the Vedic Hymns, the Iliad of Homer, the monuments of the XIXth and XXth Dynasties of Egypt, and the Judaeo-Christian Bible.
Not a bad career.
Thanks, I’m aware of the available information. All of the claimed identifications of the subgroups are entirely speculation, and have been repeated for a century and more — yet no one has ever found anything related in any of the supposed homelands. Ever. But since the entire existence of these groups is being invented anyway, to them is attributed the destructions of whole empires — after which they conveniently vanished, leaving no trace of themselves. Any mysterious purported disasters need explanation? Invoke the Sea Peoples! No risk of defamation lawsuits.
I’m saving off the BAR articles they’ve made available (lot of work to that, turns out) and was amused by this:
[caption] The wagon of the Sea Peoples. Slowly drawn by four oxen, two wheeled wagons carried women and children to settle in territories conquered by the Sea People warriors. [/caption]
http://members.bib-arch.org/bswb_graphics/BSBA/08/04/BSBA080402500L.jpg
It’s obviously a chariot, in battle, not even any equivocation about it.
No equivocation about the refutation. Four oxen? Oh, right, they'd be four times as fast as one ox.
No, oxen don't draw battle-cars, not at, what, six miles an hour? Notice the figure in the wagon bending over and leaning out of the rear of the wagon -- that's a woman, not a fighting male in kilt and headdress, and no weapon. And what else do we see? -- Two hands at waist-level to the woman, two small hands. It's the kids.
This isn't a war-chariot, it's a station wagon.
Point.
Remembering Trude Dothan
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/archaeologists-biblical-scholars-works/remembering-trude-dothan/
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