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Levantine Entanglements: Cultural Productions, Long-term Changes and Globalizations in the Eastern Mediterranean

This cross-disciplinary volume makes the case for the Levant, including the use of the term, as a unit of analysis for the study of cultural production and change over the long-term in the Eastern Mediterranean. It offers a new perspective on the history of this region that overcomes Orientalist approaches and introduces a global history perspective. It posits a way forward for studying the agency of the local as a key to understanding the long-term history of cultural production over the long-term in the region. Finally, it tells the story of the crystallization within the region of a type of sub-imperial power, illustrated by the canonical discourses popularly associated with the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Reviews of Levantine Entanglements

"This volume will change the way we write our histories of Palestine and the Levant well beyond the next decade. It is a very important contribution to anyone working on the history of the Levant or Palestine."

Thomas L. Thompson, Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen

"This is an enormously ambitious project. It has set itself the very hard task of interweaving physical, social, and conceptual topographies which are all at least in some senses spatial, with cultural traditionality, the formation and vicissitudes of memory and record, and the everchanging behaviours of what we think of as ‘religion’. The volume sheds a good deal of often very exciting illumination on this quintessentially entangled zone."

Nicholas Purcell, Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford University

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Wisdom of Peers: The Madaba Plains Project After 50 Years

This film, directed by Ivan LaBianca, tells the story of the Madaba Plains Project, the longest-lasting archaeological collaboration in Jordan, which has carried out excavations at Tall Hisban (biblical Heshbon), Tall al-‘Umayri, and Tall Jalul. This is its story, which emerged from the original Andrews University Heshbon Expedition.

Deep Time at Tall Hisban

This film, directed by Paul Reid, examines the archaeological site of Tall Hisban, where excavations reveal the interplay between local survival patterns and the footprints of great empires through the millennia. Through exploration of ancient cisterns, a Byzantine church, and Islamic structures, it demonstrates how archaeology serves not only to uncover history but also to build bridges between Eastern and Western cultures through decades of collaborative work.

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