Occident & Orient Volume 3, No. 2, December 1998 online

Inhalt

Jordan – Crossroads of Civilizations.
By: Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology (Amman)

German Archaeology in Jordan: An Exhibition on More than 100 Years of German Archaeological Activities in the Hashemite Kingdom.
By: Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman (Jordan), and Helge Fischer, CARCIP, Amman (Jordan)

Splendid Exhibition Reviews Wide Range of German Archaeological Projects in Jordan.
By: Rami G. Khouri, Amman (Jordan).

German President Visits the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

“Towards Wider Understanding of the Babylonian Civilization”
By: Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Institute of Archaeology in Amman (Jordan)

A Large and Impressive Piece of Scholarship on Mt. Nebo.
By: Michele Piccirillo, Eugenio Alliate, Reviewed by: Rami G. Khouri.

“Men of Dikes and Canals”
Conference on the Archaeology of Water in the Middle East

Esh-Shallaf – a Pottery Neolithic Site in Wadi Shellale
By: Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman (Jordan), Dieter Vieweger, Kirchliche HochschuleWuppertal (Germany)

The 1998 Excavation Season at ‘Ain Ghazal Neolithic Village
By: Gary O. Rollefson, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington (USA) and Zeidan Kafafi, Yamouk University, Irbid (Jordan)

Some Iron Age Sites South-east of Tell Johfiyeh: An Archaeological Description.
By: Roland Lamprichs, Dresden (Germany)

High Noon on Jabal es-Sela’ 1998.
By: Manfred Lindner, Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg (Germany)

Bawwab al-Ghazal: Prehistoric Hunting and Herding at the Azraq Qaa.
By: Philip Wilke, University of California-Riverside (USA), Leslie Quintero, University of California-Riverside (USA), Gary O. Rollefson, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington (USA)

Heliopolis – Baalbek: Discovering the Ruins, 1898-1998.
By: Margarete van Ess, German Institute of Archaeology – Orient Section, Berlin (Germany) and Hélène Sader, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)

Umm Qais Survey 1998 – Landuse on the ‘Ard al-‘Ala.
By: Nadine Riedl, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin (Germany), and German Protestant Institute of Archaeology, Amman (Jordan)

The Excavations Underneath the Church of the Redeemer in the Old City of Jerusalem, and the Authenticity of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Site.
By: Ute Wagner-Lux, Basel (Switzerland) and Karel J. H. Vriezen, University of Utrecht, Utrecht (Netherlands).

The 1997 Quailibah/Abila of the Decapolis Theatre Excavation Probe.
By: W. Harold Mare, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis (USA).

The Finnish Jabal Haroun Project 1998.
By: Jaako Frösén, University of Helsinki (Finland) and Zbigniew T. Fiema, Dumbarton Oaks (USA)

„Olympic Ambassador“ Arrives at the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman.