The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

by López-Ruiz, Carolina; Doak, Brian R.

• ISBN13: 9780197654422
• ISBN10: 0197654428
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-08-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Carolina López-Ruiz is a Professor of Classics at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean, for which she received the support of the National Endowment of the Humanities. Her previous books include Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia, When
the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East, and Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations (co-edited with M. Dietler). Some of her books have been translated into Turkish and Spanish.

Brian R. Doak is 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 as well as the George Fox University Undergraduate Researcher of the
Year. He is the author of several books, including Phoenician Aniconism in its Mediterranean and Ancient Near Eastern Contexts, Ancient Israel's Neighbors, and Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel.

Table of Contents

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)