Ancient Ammon: (17 Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East)

A state-of-the-art presentation on a people/nation of Transjordan known to readers of the Bible as a neighbor, and often an enemy, of first millennium B.C. Israel. Topics covered in the book’s ten chapters include a review of archaeological research in Ammon (R.W. Younker); the emergence of the Ammonites (R.W. Younker); Ammonite territory and sites (B. MacDonald); Ammonite "monumental" and domestic architecture (M. Najjar and P.M.M. Daviau respectively), as well as burial customs and practices (K. Yassine); the ceramic traditions of Central Transjordan (G. London); Ammonite texts and language (W. E. Aufrecht); the religion of the Ammonites (W.E. Aufrecht); and the Ammonites in the late Iron Age and the Persian period (L.G. Herr). Figures and Tables accompany each chapter. In addition, the publication includes an "Excursus" on the salient features of Iron Age tribal kingdoms (O. LaBianca). Each chapter of Ancient Ammon includes extensive reference material. The publication is fully indexed.

About the Author :
Randall W. Younker, Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Arizona, is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Archaeology and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Andrews University. He is also Director of the Ph.D./Th.D. program at the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary at Andrews. Younker has directed numerous archaeological projects in Israel and Jordan. Currently, he is directing excavations at Tell Jalul, the largest site in central Transjordan, for the Madaba Plains Project. He has co-edited three books and published or co-published over 50 scholarly and professional articles and reviews. Burton MacDonald, Ph.D. (1974) in Near Eastern Languages and Literature, at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., is presently professor of Religious Studies at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has studied and worked in areas of the Near East for over 30 years. He has spent 20 of those years working on excavations and archaeological survey projects in Jordan, publishing numerous articles as well as books on his Wadi al-Hasa Survey (1988), the Southern Ghors and Northeast 'Arabah Survey (1992), and Ancient Ammon, Moab, and Edom (1994). He has just completed a manuscript on biblical site identification east of the Jordan River.