Age of Empires: The History and Administration of Judah in the 8th-2nd Centuries BCE in Light of the Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions

Preface

Introduction: The Importance of the Stamp-Impression System for an Understanding of the History and Administration of Judah in the First and Second Temple Periods

1. Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions in the Ancient Near East

2. The Jar-Stamping Phenomenon in Judah

3. The Stamped Judahite Storage Jars

4. Main Stamp-Impression Types: Typology, Corpus and Distribution

5. The Chronology of the Stamped Storage-Jar Systems in the Kingdom of Judah

6. The Function and Modus Operandi of the Stamped Storage-Jar System in the Kingdom of Judah

7. The Stamped Storage-Jar Systems in Their Chronological, Historical and Archaeological Contexts

8. Conclusions

Bibliography

Index of Geographic Names

Index of Historical Figures

Index of Modern Authors