Near Eastern Archaeology in the Twentieth Century; essays in honor of Nelson Glueck

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Very gentle bumping to three corners, light spotting to fore-edge, faint soiling to fore-edge, extremely gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, sunning to DJ spine, very small tear to DJ spine head, very mild rubbing to DJ corners, pale soiling to DJ, else near fine(-) in very good DJ. in very good dust-jacket. Large octavo in white b&w illus DJ, xxiv, 406 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates, b&w illustrations, maps, plans, portrait, 25 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Contents: Foreword: "This is for a celebration ..." /; by J.A. Sanders --; Preface: The mind of Nelson Glueck /; by F. Bamberger --; Introduction: The phenomenon of American archaeology in the Near East /; by G.E. Wright --; James Henry Breasted: the idea of an oriental institute /; by J.A. Wilson --; The phenomenon of Israeli archaeology /; by W.F. Albright --; On right and wrong uses of archaeology /; by R. de Vaux --; The Bronze Age: The beginnings of urbanization in Canaan /; by R. Amiran --; Palestine in the early Bronze Age /; by P.W. Lapp --; The "Middle Bronze I" period in Syria and Palestine /; by W.G. Dever --; Northern Canaan and the Mari texts /; by A. Malamat --; The saltier of Atargatis reconsidered /; by M.H. Pope --; The Iron Age: Symbols of deities at Zinjirli, Carthage and Hazor /; by Y. Yadin --; Israelite Jerusalem /; by K.M. Kenyon --; New aspects of the Israelite occupation in the north /; by Y. Aharoni --; The Megiddo stables, a reassessment /; by J.B. Pritchard --; The scripts in Palestine and Transjordan in the Iron Age /; by J. Naveh --; Ammonite and Moabite seals /; by N. Avigad --; The Persian period and beyond: The cave inscriptions from Khirbet Beit Lei /; by F.M. Cross, Jr. --; New excavations at Sardis and some problems of Western Anatolian archaeology /; by G.M.A. Hanfmann and J.C. Waldbaum --; Another deity with dolphins? /; by R.D. Barnett --; Archaeology and Babylonian Jewry /; by J. Neusner and J.Z. Smith --; A sequence of pottery from Petra /; by P.J. Parr. Glueck, Nelson, 1900-1972 -- Bibliography.