The Four Room House: Embodying Iron Age Israelite Society

The four-room house was the typical dwelling in the southern Levant during the Iron Age. Its widespread use both in time and space raises many questions about its origins, its function, and mostly intriguingly, about who lived in it. Did the four-room house form the quintessential Israelite home? Th...

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Authors: Faust, Avraham (Author) ; Bunimovitz, Shlomo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2003
In: Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2003, Volume: 66, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 22-31
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Summary:The four-room house was the typical dwelling in the southern Levant during the Iron Age. Its widespread use both in time and space raises many questions about its origins, its function, and mostly intriguingly, about who lived in it. Did the four-room house form the quintessential Israelite home? The authors believe the answer to this question is yes!
ISSN:2325-5404
Contains:Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3210929