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.
"This monograph is a revision of my 2007 dissertation, "Philistine Figurines and Figurines in Philistia in the Iron Age"--author's preface.