Jennie Ebeling

University of Evansville · Archaeology and Art History

Recent survey and excavation at Tel 'Ein Jezreel, located in the Jezreel Valley directly above the spring of 'Ein Jezreel, revealed evidence for settlement from the Neolithic Period through the modern era. (The Jezreel Expedition was sponsored by The Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel and the University of Evansville, Indi...

Jezreel is the scene of two murders, that of biblical Naboth and that of kibbutznik Moshele Orion. Splicing the biblical story and one particular episode of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle in the 1950s, this essay explores the formation of social memory. The fate of the two heroes may help probe deeper the formation of the Naboth tradition and how...

The discovery of an Iron Age basalt vessel workshop at Tel Hazor revealed numerous discarded preforms in different production stages. Provenance analyses allow us to reconstruct the vessels’ journey from the mining of raw material off‐site to production in the workshop. To determine the extraction sites, the geochemical compositions of the artifact...

This volume celebrates the career of Norma Franklin, an archaeologist who has made important contributions to our understanding of the three key cities of Samaria, Megiddo, and Jezreel in the Northern Kingdom of Israel during the Iron Age. The sixteen essays offered herein by Franklin’s colleagues in archaeology and biblical studies are a fitting t...

This volume celebrates the career of Norma Franklin, an archaeologist who has made important contributions to our understanding of the three key cities of Samaria, Megiddo, and Jezreel in the Northern Kingdom of Israel during the Iron Age. The sixteen essays offered herein by Franklin’s colleagues in archaeology and biblical studies are a fitting t...

Contents of Norma Franklin Festschrift

This paper explores the place of the rotary quern in contemporary Middle Eastern culture and some of the issues involved in using unprovenanced, and thus undated, ground stone artefacts to illustrate women’s daily life activities in the recent past. Grinding stones have specific cultural meanings in the present and are valued, regardless of their d...

The discovery of a basalt vessel workshop at Tel Hazor, one of the most important Iron Age sites in the Near East, marks a turning point in our understanding of stone artefact production and distribution during the 1st millennium BCE. It offers a rare opportunity to characterize ancient raw material sources, production sites, and study production,...

It is commonly believed that women were the preparers of food and drink in the Iron Age (ca. 1200–586 B.C.E.) Israelite household while men were primarily responsible for agricultural field activities. Various lines of evidence suggest, however, that this indoor female/outdoor male dichotomy as related to food production was not always the reality,...

Evidence for the production of basalt vessels is virtually unknown from archaeological sites in the Levant. Several unfinished basalt vessels were discovered at Tel Hazor, Israel, during excavations directed by Y. Yadin in the 1950s and in 1968, and 25 more were identified during the analysis of the large ground stone assemblage excavated at Hazor...

The tabun is a clay oven that was common in rural areas in the southern Levant in the 20th century AD; linguistic and literary sources, ethnographic information and archaeological remains offer insights into the manufacture and use of this female-gendered baking installation. Despite its earliest attestation in the writings of medieval Palestinian...

In June 2012, the Jezreel Expedition team conducted a landscape survey of 3 km2 of greater Jezreel to the west, north, and east of Tel Jezreel in Israel's Jezreel Valley. In this preliminary report, we review the results of previous excavations and surveys at the site, briefly present the types of features we documented on the landscape, and discus...

The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) provides limited information about women's lives in ancient Israel, but various other sources are available that can be used to reconstruct aspects of women's everyday activities and their roles in important lifecycle events. In this article I present two different case studies?brewing beer and childbirth?in order t...

Few people in the world today work with stone tools that they, or their immediate community, manufactured. But this is a recent development, as stone tools have played a central role in daily life for many millennia, for hunter-gatherers, settled agriculturalists and pastoralists. As a fundamental component of the food-production tool kit, these ar...