Exploring the Narrative

This collection honours Margreet Steiner, who used archaeology and pottery analysis to question the assumptions made by historians and biblical scholars about the past. It brings together biblical scholars and archaeologists to examine the relationship between 'dirt' archaeology and the biblical world as presented to us through written sources.

This in many ways highly significant collection, which appreciatively measures the work of the honouree, is concluded with an index of authors and biblical references.

Eveline van der Steen is a Near Eastern archaeologist with a special interest the archaeology of the Southern Levant. She is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, UK.

Jeannette Boertien

is an archaeologist in the faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands Her research focuses on archaeological textiles and technological, social and religious aspects of textile production.

Noor Mulder-Hymans is an independent scholar and classical archaeologist.