Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
קתדרה
Angaben zur Quelle:
181 (תשפב) 9-30
Keywords:
Negev, Avraham
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Agriculture History To 1500
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Agriculture History
;
Nabataeans Material culture
;
Archaeology Study and teaching
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Negev (Israel) Antiquities
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Eretz Israel Historiography
Abstract:
The foundation of Kibbutz Revivim in the 1940s, one of the first new settlements in the Negev, revealed toits founders impressive ruins of ancient sites and their related agricultural fields. It established an immediate connection between the glorious past and the new Israeli presence in the region. The explorations of Nelson Glueck and Abraham Negev, one of the Revivim settlers and later a leading archaeologist in Israel, portrayed the Nabataeans as nomads that emerged from the inner desert, transformed the wilderness into arable land using sophisticated water management technologies, and maintained sustainability in harsh desert conditions. This article evaluates the research paradigm that placed the Nabataeans front and center in the construction of the ancient Negev settlements and and their agricultural systems. This evaluation is based on the history of archaeological research in the region from its early beginnings in the mid19th century to the 1980s, while incorporating the perspectives of updated research of the past three decades. The added presentation of the Nabataeans in modern Hebrew literature and art reflects another aspect of the imagined connections between past and present. In a broader context, the history of research on the Nabataeans in the Negev reflects the complex connections between archaeology and nationalism, and the development of academic research in keeping with questions of national identity and the preferences of individual researchers.
Note:
With an English abstract.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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