Explores buildings and public spaces in seventeenth-century Madrid as reflections of political ideas about the grandeur of the Spanish monarchy, situating monuments in the Spanish capital within a network of cities in Spain, Europe, and the Americas.
Presents a reconstruction of the history of Ancient Israel in biblical times, taking into account biblical and extra-biblical texts as well as archaeological material.
Studies the material remains of the city of Ashkelon in the southern Levant during the Hellenistic period.
A collection of hundreds of Idumean Aramaic ostraca, with photographs, transcriptions, translations, and commentary. Provides insight into the economic and social lives of Idumeans in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods.
"This monograph is a revision of my 2007 dissertation, "Philistine Figurines and Figurines in Philistia in the Iron Age"--author's preface.