Preface
Introduction: Seleucid Nysa-Scythopolis in the Framework of Hellenistic Foundations in the Levant (Achim Lichtenberger and Oren Tal)
I. Setting the Stage
Chapter 1 Nysa-Scythopolis (Tell Iẓṭabba): A Seleucid Foundation in the Southern Levant (Achim Lichtenberger and Oren Tal)
II. People and Environment
Chapter 2 Climate and Earthquakes in the Beth She’an Valley in the Hellenistic Period (Amotz Agnon)
Chapter 3 Founding the City, Settling the Chora: Settlement Dynamics in the Territories of Hippos and Nysa-Scythopolis as a Test Case (Adam Pažout)
Chapter 4 On the Ethno-linguistic Character of the Names of the Judeo-Samaritans in Palestine and Adjacent Regions during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods (Ran Zadok)
III. Royal Administration
Chapter 5 Ptolemaic Foundations in the Southern Levant: Imperial Policy and Regional Integration (Ole Johannsen)
Chapter 6 Religious (Royal) Discourse in the Hellenistic Southern Levant (Giuseppina Marano)
Chapter 7 Seleucid Foundations in the Southern Levant and Their Role in Dynastic Struggles (Kyle W. Mahoney)
Chapter 8 Royal Cult and Religious Life in the Seleucid Levant: Additional Considerations on the Heliodoros Stele (Kyle Erickson)
IV. Economic Strategies
Chapter 9 Economic Dynamics (Noah Kaye)
Chapter 10 Ptolemaic and Seleucid Coinage in the Southern Levant in Consideration of the Political Context (Catharine Lorber)
Chapter 11 Phoenician Mints in the Hellenistic Period (Jessica Schellig)
V. Urban Fabrics
Chapter 12 City Planning in the Seleucid Foundations of the Levant (Winfried Held)
Chapter 13 Seleucid Fortifications in the Southern Levant (Brita Jansen)
Chapter 14 Bathing in the Hellenistic Southern Levant (Arleta Kowalewska)
Chapter 15 Nysa-Scythopolis and the Dead: Burial Culture in the Seleucid Southern Levant (Philip Ebeling, Achim Lichtenberger and Oren Tal)
VI. Material Culture
Chapter 16 Mural Decoration in the Hellenistic Levant (Silvia Rozenberg)
Chapter 17 Architectural Decoration in the Hellenistic Southern Levant (Julia Hertzer)
Chapter 18 Art in the Hellenistic Southern Levant (Adi Erlich)
Chapter 19 Late Hellenistic Glass Production in the Southern Levant: Between Tradition and Innovation (Ruth E. Jackson-Tal)
VII. Dietary Habits
Chapter 20 Archaeobotanical Remains in the Seleucid Foundations of the Southern Levant: Agricultural Strategies and the Floral Diet (Andrea Orendi)
Chapter 21 Faunal Remains in the Seleucid Foundations of the Southern Levant: Animal Husbandry and the Meat Diet in Nysa-Scythopolis (Tell Iẓṭabba) from a Comparative Perspective (Miriam Pines)
VIII. Contrasting the Colonial Paradigms: Local Dynasts
Chapter 22 Royal Religious Ideology in Semitic Minor Kingdoms (Julia Hoffmann-Salz)
Chapter 23 Border Regions and Ethnicity: Archaeological Insights into Hellenistic and Hasmonean Influence at Tall Zirā‘a (Friederike Schöpf)
Chapter 24 Jewish Necropoleis and Burial Customs in Seleucid and Hasmonean Palestine (Zeev Weiss)
IX. Concluding Remarks
Chapter 25 Peoples, Empires, and Experience in the (Southern) Levant in the Final Centuries BCE: Constructing Locality at Nysa-Scythopolis (Tell Iẓṭabba) (Miguel John Versluys)
