Jacob Dunn
My original area of study was the Hebrew Bible with a special focus on the Pentateuchal traditions and the archaeology of the Southlands / Transjordan during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron I.
My current focus is NW Arabia and a volcanic cult site known as Jabal Thadra, which is located in the Al-Jaww region north of Al-Ula. This is the ancient Midianite hinterland.
Various topics that interest me include: Textual criticism, the date and early composition of E (Elohist) source, proto-Israel, the Exodus and Sinai traditions, the Midianite-Qenite hypothesis, Qurayyah Painted Ware, ancient metallurgy, incense trade, the Sea Peoples and the Aegean world, the Egyptian New Kingdom, geology and volcanology, and general questions of cult and ritual.
Supervisors: Richard Elliot Friedman, Baruch Halpern, and W. Randall Garr
Phone: 6264221129
My current focus is NW Arabia and a volcanic cult site known as Jabal Thadra, which is located in the Al-Jaww region north of Al-Ula. This is the ancient Midianite hinterland.
Various topics that interest me include: Textual criticism, the date and early composition of E (Elohist) source, proto-Israel, the Exodus and Sinai traditions, the Midianite-Qenite hypothesis, Qurayyah Painted Ware, ancient metallurgy, incense trade, the Sea Peoples and the Aegean world, the Egyptian New Kingdom, geology and volcanology, and general questions of cult and ritual.
Supervisors: Richard Elliot Friedman, Baruch Halpern, and W. Randall Garr
Phone: 6264221129
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Hebrew Bible. William Foxwell Albright once wrote, “nearly all competent biblical
scholars believe that the Song of Deborah is the oldest document which the Bible has
preserved in approximately its original form.” 1 Because of the poem’s archaic linguistic
features and climactic parallelism reminiscent of earlier material from Ugarit, the poem
has been dated to ca. 1200-1100 B.C.E.,2 making it several hundred years older than the
earliest Hebrew prose.3 Immediately preceding the song is the prose account (Judges 4)
which was composed much later, and whoever wrote the prose version used the poem as
their source.4 Moreover, both the prose and the poem refer to two powerful women,
Deborah, the prophetess and judge, and Jael the Qenite (“metalsmith”). This paper will
explore both of these mysterious yet salient women, and it will test the hypothesis that
Deborah and Jael are two aspects of the same archetypal figure appearing in a grander
scheme of poetic parallelism: a diviner/prophetess and the wife of a metal-smith (אֵשֶׁת לַפִּידוׂת).
Wadi ʿArabah and by controlling the major trade routes traversing this region. This thesis focuses largely on the Midianite connection to metallurgy at Timnaʿ where an impressive amount of Midianite ware and a tent-shrine much like the biblical tabernacle were
discovered. Additionally, this thesis will also explore the origin of the allochthonous motifs on the Midianite ware and the cultural background of the Midianites. The methods employed in this work are largely transdisciplinary in nature, as text, archaeology, and anthropology will be used to give new dimension to the Midianite-Qenite Hypothesis.
Hebrew Bible. William Foxwell Albright once wrote, “nearly all competent biblical
scholars believe that the Song of Deborah is the oldest document which the Bible has
preserved in approximately its original form.” 1 Because of the poem’s archaic linguistic
features and climactic parallelism reminiscent of earlier material from Ugarit, the poem
has been dated to ca. 1200-1100 B.C.E.,2 making it several hundred years older than the
earliest Hebrew prose.3 Immediately preceding the song is the prose account (Judges 4)
which was composed much later, and whoever wrote the prose version used the poem as
their source.4 Moreover, both the prose and the poem refer to two powerful women,
Deborah, the prophetess and judge, and Jael the Qenite (“metalsmith”). This paper will
explore both of these mysterious yet salient women, and it will test the hypothesis that
Deborah and Jael are two aspects of the same archetypal figure appearing in a grander
scheme of poetic parallelism: a diviner/prophetess and the wife of a metal-smith (אֵשֶׁת לַפִּידוׂת).
Wadi ʿArabah and by controlling the major trade routes traversing this region. This thesis focuses largely on the Midianite connection to metallurgy at Timnaʿ where an impressive amount of Midianite ware and a tent-shrine much like the biblical tabernacle were
discovered. Additionally, this thesis will also explore the origin of the allochthonous motifs on the Midianite ware and the cultural background of the Midianites. The methods employed in this work are largely transdisciplinary in nature, as text, archaeology, and anthropology will be used to give new dimension to the Midianite-Qenite Hypothesis.