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Moab, Israel’s Transjordanian neighbor, appears throughout the Hebrew Bible as well as in Egyptian, Assyrian, and Babylonian sources, but who were the Moabites? In this volume, rather than focusing on written sources, P. M. Michèle Daviau and Margreet L. Steiner present an archaeological picture of the Moabites from their beginnings as a loose association of agricultural communities to an independent kingdom and, finally, to a vassal state eventually ravaged by empire. Daviau and Steiner bring the Moabites to life with maps, site plans, and illustrations of houses and temples, figurines, statues, stone altars, pottery, textile tools, and weapons. As the first volume to trace the Moabites throughout the Iron Age from an archaeological perspective, it is an essential resource for not only archaeologists but also scholars and students of the Hebrew Bible.

P. M. Michèle Daviau is Professor Emerita of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is the director of the Wadi ath-Thamad Project in Jordan. She is the author or editor of several books and field reports, including The Encyclopedia of Material Culture in the Biblical World: A New Biblisches Reallexikon (2022) and A Wayside Shrine in Ancient Moab: Excavations in Wadi ath-Thamad (Wadi ath-Thamad Project 1, 2017).

Margreet L. Steiner is an independent researcher, now retired. She has been doing fieldwork in Jordan since 1982. She is the author or editor of several books and field reports, including Digging up the Bible? The Excavations at Tell Deir Alla (1960–1967) (2019) and Inhabiting the Promised Land: Exploring the Complex Relationship between Archaeology and Ancient Israel as Depicted in the Bible (2019). 

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