The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

Edited by Carolina López-Ruiz and Brian R. Doak

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First Handbook of Phoenician and Punic world in over two decades
First Handbook of Phoenician and Punic world of any kind in English
Wide range of scholarly voices, encompassing all major centers of study on this group today-in Europe, Mediterranean world, Australia, and North America
Essays bring the reader up to date on the state of and recent developments in areas of study such as language and inscriptions, pottery, and the history of various sites such as Carthage, adding newer fields such as reception history, colonization andcultural exchange, and local histories
Provides readers with direct access and sources to a wide range of sites, historical periods, viewpoints
Includes 84 figures and maps

The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

Edited by Carolina López-Ruiz and Brian R. Doak

Description

The Phoenicians created the Mediterranean world as we know it-yet they remain a shadowy and poorly understood group. The academic study of the Phoenicians has come to an important crossroads; the field has grown in sheer content, sophistication of analysis, and diversity of interpretation, and we now need a current overview of where the study of these ancient seafarers and craftsman stands and where it is going. Moreover, the field of Phoenician studies is particularly fragmented and scattered. While there is growing interest in all things Phoenician and Punic, the latest advances are mostly published in specialized journals and conference volumes in a plethora of languages. This Handbook is the first of its type to appear in over two decades, and the first ever to appear in English. In these chapters, written by a wide range of prominent and promising scholars from across Europe, North America, Australia, and the Mediterranean world, readers will find summary studies on key historical moments (such as the history of Carthage), areas of culture (organized around language, religion, and material culture), regional studies and areas of contact (spanning from the Levant and the Aegean to Iberia and North Africa), and the reception of the Phoenicians as an idea, entangled with the formation of other cultural identities, both ancient and modern.

The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

Edited by Carolina López-Ruiz and Brian R. Doak

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Introduction (Brian R. Doak and Carolina López-Ruiz)
Research Tools (Philip Schmitz)
Birth and Prospects of a Discipline (Nicholas C. Vella)
Part One: Histories
The East
Canaanite Roots and the Proto-Phoenician Period: c. 1300-1000 BCE (Ann E. Killebrew)
Phoenicia in the Later Iron Age: Tenth Century BCE to the Assyrian and Babylonian Periods (Guy Bunnens)
Tyre and its Colonial Expansion (María Eugenia Aubet Semmler)
Phoenicia under the Achaemenid Empire (Vadim Jigoulov)
The Hellenistic Period and Hellenization in Phoenicia (Corinne Bonnet)
Phoenicia in the Roman Empire (Julien Aliquot)
The Archaeology of Phoenician Cities (Hélène Sader)
The West
Early Carthage: From its Foundation to the Battle of Himera (ca. 814-480 BCE) (Hédi Dridi)
Classical-Hellenistic Carthage before the Punic Wars (479-265 BCE) (Dexter Hoyos)
The Punic Wars (264-146 BCE) (Christopher de Lisle)
Carthage after the Punic Wars and the Neo-Punic Legacy (Matthew Hobson)
Part Two: Areas of Culture
Language and Literature
The Language (Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo)
Inscriptions (Madadh Richey)
The Alphabet and its Legacy (Madadh Richey)
Phoenician Literature (Carolina López-Ruiz )
Religion
Religion (Paolo Xella)
Ritual and the Afterlife (Mireia López-Bertran)
The tophet and Infant Sacrifice (Matthew McCarty)
Material Culture
Pottery and Trade (Francisco J. Núñez)
Art and Iconography (Eric Gubel)
Levantine Art in the Orientalizing Period (Marian Feldman)
Coins (John Betlyon)
Metallurgy and Other Technologies (Philip Andrew Johnston and Brett Kaufman)
Seafaring and Shipwreck Archaeology (Jeffrey P. Emanuel)
Residential Architecture (Roald Docter)
Agriculture (Carlos Gómez Bellard)
Part Three: Regional Studies and Interactions
The Levant (Gunnar Lehmann)
Cyprus (Sabine Fourrier)
The Aegean (Nikos Stampolidis)
The Italian Peninsula (Jeremy Hayne)
Sardinia (Andrea Roppa)
Sicily (Salvatore de Vincenzo)
Malta and Gozo (Nicholas C. Vella and Maxine Anastasi)
Ibiza (Benjamí Costa)
The Iberian Peninsula (José Luis López Castro)
Phoenicians in Portugal (Ana Margarida Arruda)
The Gadir-Tyre Axis (Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar)
North Africa: from the Atlantic to Algeria (Alfredo Mederos)
Phoenician Exploration (Duane W. Roller)
Part Four: Receptions
Phoenicians in the Hebrew Bible (Brian R. Doak)
Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Classical Literature (Josephine C. Quinn)
Neo-Phoenician Identities in the Roman Empire (Anthony Kaldellis)
Phoenicians and Carthaginians in the Western Imagination (Brien Garnand)
Phoenician Identity in Modern Lebanon (Claude Doumet-Serhal)
Punic Heritage in Tunisia (Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Peter van Dommelen)

The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

Edited by Carolina López-Ruiz and Brian R. Doak

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Author Information

Carolina López-Ruiz is a Professor of Classics at The Ohio State University. She studies the interaction between Greek and Near Eastern cultures, with a focus on the Phoenicians and North-West Semitic cultures. Her books include Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia (Oxford University Press, 2016, with S. Celestino) Gods, Heroes and Monsters: A Sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Myths in Translation (second edition, 2018, 1st ed. 2014), When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East (Harvard University Press, 2010; published in Turkish 2012), and Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations (University of Chicago Press, 2009, co-editor with M. Dietler). She is preparing monographs on the Phoenicians and cultural contact in the orientalizing Mediterranean.

Brian R. Doak (PhD Harvard University) is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University, just outside of Portland, Oregon. He is the recipient of the Aviram Prize for archaeological research (2012) as well as the George Fox University Undergraduate Researcher of the Year (2014). He is the author of several books, including Phoenician Aniconism in its Mediterranean and Ancient Near Eastern Contexts (SBL Press, 2015), Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel (Oxford University Press, 2018), and the forthcoming Ancient Israel's Neighbors (Oxford University Press).

Contributors:

Julien Aliquot
Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo
Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar
Maxine Anastasi
Ana Margarida Arruda
María Eugenia Aubet Semmler
John W. Betlyon
Corinne Bonnet
Guy Bunnens
Benjamí Costa
Christopher de Lisle
Salvatore De Vincenzo
Brian R. Doak
Roald Docter
Hédi Dridi
Claude Doumet-Serhal
Jeffrey P. Emanuel
Marian H. Feldman
Sabine Fourrier
Brien K. Garnand
Carlos Gómez Bellard
Eric Gubel
Jeremy Hayne
Matthew Hobson
Dexter Hoyos
Vadim Jigoulov
Philip Andrew Johnston
Anthony Kaldellis
Brett Kaufman
Ann E. Killebrew
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels
Gunnar Lehmann
Mireia López-Bertran
José Luis López Castro
Carolina López-Ruiz
Matthew M. McCarty
Alfredo Mederos Martín
Francisco J. Núñez
Josephine C. Quinn
Madadh Richey
Duane W. Roller
Andrea Roppa
Hélène Sader
Philip Schmitz
Nikos Stampolidis
Peter van Dommelen
Nicholas C. Vella
Paolo Xella

The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

Edited by Carolina López-Ruiz and Brian R. Doak

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Reviews and Awards

"The publication of The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean, edited by Carolina López-Ruiz and Brian R. Doak, marks a significant advancement in the growing discipline of Phoenician (and Punic) Studies. ...the Handbook as a whole is an immense contribution to Phoenician Studies that will easily facilitate seminars at the intermediate-to-advanced undergraduate and graduate levels that would have been extremely difficult to organize at English-speaking universities beforehand. I have no doubt that it will quickly become an indispensable tool for both experienced researchers and younger scholars just beginning to learn about the field." -- Russell Clark, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"Marks a significant advancement in the growing discipline of Phoenician (and Punic) Studies.... The an immense contribution to Phoenician Studies that will easily facilitate seminars at the intermediate-to-advanced undergraduate and graduate levels that would have been extremely difficult to organize at English-speaking universities beforehand. I have no doubt that it will quickly become an indispensable tool for both experienced researchers and younger scholars just beginning to learn about the field." -- Russell J. Clark, Bryn Mawr Classical Review