Scribal Representations and Social Landscapes of the Iron Age Shephelah

Mahri Leonard-Fleckman focuses on identity and representations of the proximate Other in the Shephelah borderlands in the southwestern region of Iron Age Israel (ca. 1200-586 BCE), presenting irresolution as a practice for historians of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Levant. Focusing on two sites, Timnah and Gath, she takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the region and journeys through texts and archaeology that bear witness to the social and political complexities of the Iron Age Shephelah borderlands.