Egypt, Canaan and Israel ─ History, Imperialism, Ideology and Literature: Proceedings of a Conference at the University of Haifa, 3-7 May 2009

This volume contains the proceedings of a May 2009 conference on interactions between Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in the biblical era that was held at the U. of Haifa, Israel. Topics include border delineation and the setting of boundary stellae during the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, Egyptian-Canaanite relations in the Second Intermediate Period as reflected by scarabs, relations between Amenhotep II and the Kingdom of Mitanni, archaeological findings at a settlement of the Sherden dated to the reign of Rameses III, parallelism between the biblical passage II Samuel 22 and the Israel Stela of Merneptah, Egyptian influence behind the names of Immanuel in the biblical book of Isaiah, Egyptian influence on the Southern Levant and the Kingdom of Judah during the 26th Dynasty, and the role of civil servants who participated in Egyptian military campaigns. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Shay Bar received his PhD in archaeology from the University of Haifa (2008). He is teaching in the archaeology department at Haifa University and surveys and excavates proto historic and Early Bronze Age sites in the Jordan Valley. His current major projects are the excavations of Tel Esur in the Israeli Sharon plain and Tel Shiqmona in the Haifa bay.Dan'el Kahn studied Egyptology, History of Ancient Israel and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2000 he taught at the department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa and is currently the chair of the department of Biblical Studies. His main publications are about Egyptian History in the New Kingdom and first millennium BC and Egypt's foreign relations with the great powers of the day – Assyria, Babylonia, Persia and Greece.J.J. Shirley received her PhD in Egyptian Art and Archaeology from The Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at universities in the UK and US, and since 2007 has been the Managing Editor for the Journal of Egyptian History. Her research and publications focus on Theban tombs, the New Kingdom Theban landscape, New Kingdom military and political history, and the socio-political and familial relationships among New Kingdom officials.