In this volume honoring Tel Aviv University archaeologist David
Ussishkin, colleagues and students representing some of the major
names in the field today present 25 essays on a variety of topics
of ...interest to the honoree. The contributions cover a range of
periods from the Late Bronze Age through the Persian period and
disparate subjects such as Judahite bullae, destruction levels at
Megiddo, a diversity of results from various tells in Israel (and
one in Jordan), Egyptian influence on Canaan, the city of Jerusalem
and its temple, and much on the archaeology of the Shephelah, an
area of particular interest to the honoree-who is best known for
his excavations at Tell ed-Duweir, the site of biblical Lachish.
The volume takes its title from a reference in one of the Lachish
ostraca.
From 1966 until his retirement in 2004, David Ussishkin taught
in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
at Tel Aviv University. Between 1975 and 1978, he served as Chair
of the Department, and between 1980 and 1984 as the Director of the
Institute of Archaeology. In 1996, he was nominated incumbent of
the Austria Chair in Archaeology of the Land of Israel in the
Biblical Period. He served as the editor of Tel Aviv: The
Journal of Archaeology of Tel Aviv Univers ity for 30
years.
We present the results of a search for transversely polarised hidden photons (HPs) with \(\sim 3\) eV energies emitted from the Sun. These hypothetical particles, known also as paraphotons or dark ...sector photons, are theoretically well motivated for example by string theory inspired extensions of the Standard Model. Solar HPs of sub-eV mass can convert into photons of the same energy (photon\(\leftrightarrow\)HP oscillations are similar to neutrino flavour oscillations). At SHIPS this would take place inside a long light-tight high-vacuum tube, which tracks the Sun. The generated photons would then be focused into a low-noise photomultiplier at the far end of the tube. Our analysis of 330 h of data (and {330 h} of background characterisation) reveals no signal of photons from solar hidden photon conversion. We estimate the rate of newly generated photons due to this conversion to be smaller than 25 mHz/m\(^2\) at the 95\(%\) C.L. Using this and a recent model of solar HP emission, we set stringent constraints on \(\chi\), the coupling constant between HPs and photons, as a function of the HP mass.
Samuel among the Prophets Ernst Axel Knauf
Is Samuel among the Deuteronomists,
10/2013, Letnik:
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Book Chapter
The book of Samuel is placed in the (Former) Prophets following Judges and leading into Kings. It consists of 1,506 verses¹ and ranks in length after Psalms (2,527 verses), Chronicles (1,765 verses), ...Genesis (1,534 verses), and Kings (1,534 verses). The narrative sequence Joshua–Kings (actually, Genesis–Kings) was implicitly understood as “historiography” by the Chroniclers (third–second centuries B.C.E.)² and has been explicitly viewed as historiography since the time of Josephus (C. Ap.1.37–43). Only recently Western scholars have started to ponder the question why this “historiography” was included in the division of the Prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
Some of our fellow historians and archaeologists tend to disregard the Bible and biblical scholarship, while others take the recorded tradition as bare fact, not knowing better or not wanting to ...know. On the other hand, increasing masses of biblical scholars turn away from the pitfalls of unreliable sources and the fog of historical uncertainty towards fields more easily ploughed, such as structuralist stylistics. In times like these it is a rare pleasure and great honor to pay a small tribute to an archaeologist of Eretz Israel who always sought the dialogue between the facts on the ground and the
This document constitutes an excerpt of the Technical Design Report for the second stage of the "Any Light Particle Search" (ALPS-II) at DESY as submitted to the DESY PRC in August 2012 and reviewed ...in November 2012. ALPS-II is a "Light Shining through a Wall" experiment which searches for photon oscillations into weakly interacting sub-eV particles. These are often predicted by extensions of the Standard Model and motivated by astrophysical phenomena. The first phases of the ALPS-II project were approved by the DESY management on February 21st, 2013.
Bethel Ernst Axel Knauf
Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period,
06/2006
Book Chapter
Bethel is, after Jerusalem, the place most frequently mentioned in the Bible.¹ This essay seeks to explain why.
There was no Torah before the Torah.² Canaan/Israel was not only linguistically ...cantonized³—and remains so to this very day, at least on the level of the spoken language⁴—but Israel and Judah were also cantonized with regard to local traditions. The legends involving Father Abraham emerged at Mamre, in northern Judah, during the Iron I period.⁵ It is conceivable that the name of Abraham was unheard of in Jerusalem prior to 597 B.C.E.,⁶ if even by that time, and that the
