Bibliography

General Articles  

  • Dever,W.G., "Gezer," in The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land 2, edited by E. Stern, A. Lewinson-Gilboa, and J. Aviram (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1993), 496-506.
  • Holladay,J.S. "Red Slip, Burnish, and the Solomonic Gateway at Gezer." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 277/278 (1990): 23-70.
  • Dever,W.G. "Solomonic and Assyrian Period 'Palaces' at Gezer." Israel Exploration Journal 35, no. 4 (1985): 217-230.
  • Shanks,H. "The Sad Case of Tell Gezer." Biblical Archaeology Review 9, no. 4 (1983): 30-42
  • Dever,W.G. "The Water Systems at Hazor and Gezer." Biblical Archaeologist 32 (1969): 71-78.

 

Major Excavation Reports  

  • Gitin,S. Gezer III: A Ceramic Typology of the Late Iron II, Persian and Hellenistic Periods at Tell Gezer(Jerusalem: Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, 1990).
  • Seger,J.D., Lance,H.D., and Bullard,R.G. Gezer V: The Field 1 Caves(Jerusalem: Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, 1988).
  • Dever,W.G., Lance,H.D., and Bullard,R.G. Gezer IV: The 1969-71 Seasons in Field VI, the "Acropolis"(Jerusalem: Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, 1986).
  • Dever,W.G. Gezer II: Report of the 1967-70 Seasons in Fields I and II(Jerusalem: Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, 1974).
  • Dever,W.G., Lance,H.D., and Wright,G.E. Gezer I: Preliminary Report of the 1964-66 Seasons(Jerusalem: Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, 1970).
  • Macalister,R.A.S. The Excavation of Gezer, 1902-1905 and 1907-1909, 1-3(London: J. Murray for the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1912).

 

1984 and 1990 Excavations  

  • Dever,W.G. "Further Evidence on the Date of the Outer Wall at Gezer." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 289 (1993): 33-54.
  • Dever,W.G. and Younker,R.W. "Tel Gezer -- 1990." Excavations and Surveys in Israel 12 (1993): 48-49.
  • Dever,W.G. and Younker,R.W. "Tell Gezer, 1990." Israel Exploration Journal 41 (1990): 282-286.
  • Younker,R.W. "A Preliminary Report of the 1990 Season at Tel Gezer: Excavations of the "Outer Wall" and the "Solomonic" Gateway." Andrews University Seminary Studies 29 (1991): 19-60.
  • Dever,W.G. and Younker,R.W. "Tell Gezer, 1990." Israel Exploration Journal 41 (1990): 282-286.
  • Dever,W.G. "Solomonic and Assyrian Period 'Palaces' at Gezer." Israel Exploration Journal 35, no. 4 (1985): 217-230.
  • Dever,W.G. " Gezer Revisited: New Excavations of the Solomonic and Assyrian Period Defenses." Biblical Archaeologist 47, no. 4 (1984): 206-218.
  • Dever,W.G. "Tel Gezer -- 1984." Excavations and Surveys in Israel 3 (1984): 30-31.

 

Gezer in Recent Debate  

  • Finkelstein,I. "On Archaeological Methods and Historical Considerations: Iron Age II Gezer and Samaria." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 277/278 (1990): 109-130.
  • Ussishkin,D. "Notes on Megiddo, Gezer, Ashdod and Tel Batash in the Tenth to Ninth Centuries B.C." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 277/278 (1990): 71-91.
  • Finkelstein,I. "The Date of Gezer's Outer Wall." Tel Aviv 8, no. 2 (1981): 136-145.

 

Hellenistic/Maccabean Gezer  

  • Reich,R. "The `Boundary of Gezer' Inscriptions Again." Israel Exploration Journal 40 (1990): 44-46.
  • Schwartz,J. "One More on the 'Boundary of Gezer' Inscriptions and the History of Gezer and Lydda at the End of the Second Temple Period." Israel Exploration Journal 40 (1990): 47-57.
  • Reich,R. "Jewish Ritual Baths at Tel Gezer." Qadmoniot 15, no. 2-3 (1982): 74-76.
  • Reich,R. "Archaeological Evidence of the Jewish Population of Hasmonean Gezer." Israel Exploration Journal 31, no. 1 (1981): 48-52
  • Seger,J.D., "The Search for Maccabean Gezer," in Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress of Jewish Studies, edited by A. Shinan (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1977), 389-95.
  • Seger,J.D. "The Search for Maccabean Gezer." Biblical Archaeologist 39, no. 4 (1976): 142-144.