The Bibliography for Beth Shean (also spelt Beth Shan / Beisan) represents the published reports and discussions available in most good archaeological libraries.
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general treatments
Tzori, N.
“An Archaeological Survey of the Beth Shan Valley”, in The Beth Shean Valley [17th Annual Archaeological Convention], pp.135-198 (Hebrew).
bronze and iron age city
Braun, Eliot
2004 Early Beth Shan (Strata XIX-XIII) – G.M. FitzGerald’s Deep Cut on the Tell, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2004.
Finkelstein, Israel
1996 “The Stratigraphy and Chronology of Megiddo and Beth-Shan in the 12th-11th Centuries BCE”, TA 23 (1996), pp.170-184.
Fitzgerald, G.M.
1930 The Four Canaanite Temples of Beth-shan: the Pottery, Beth-shan II:2, University Museum: Philadelphia, 1930.
1932 “Excavations at Beth-Shan 1931”, PEQ (1932), pp.138-148.
1934 “Excavations at Beth-Shan 1933”, PEQ (1934), pp.123-134.
1935 “The Earliest Pottery of Beth-shan”, The Museum Journal 24 (1935), pp.5-22.
Garfinkel, Yosef
1987 “The Early Iron Age Stratigraphy of Beth Shean Reconsidered”, IEJ 37 (1987), pp.224-228.
Geva, Shulamit
1979 “A Reassessment of the Chronology of Beth Shean Strata V and IV”, IEJ 29 (1979), pp.6-10.
Greenberg, Raphael
2003 “Early Bronze Age Megiddo and Beth Shean: Discontinuous Settlement in Sociopolitical Context”, JMA 16.1 (2003), pp.17-32.
Hankey, V.
1966 “Late Mycenaean Pottery at Beth-Shan”, AJA 70 (1966), pp.169-171.
Higginbotham, C.
1999 “The Statue of Ramses III from Beth Shean”, TA 26 (1999), pp.225-232.
Horowitz, W.
1994 “Trouble in Canaan: A Letter of the el-Amarna Period on a Clay Cylinder from Beth Shean”,Qadmoniot 27 (1994), pp.84-86 (Hebrew).
1996 “An Inscribed Clay Cylinder from Amarna Age Beth Shean”, IEJ 46 (1996), pp.208-218.
James, Frances W.
1966 The Iron Age at Beth Shean: A Study of Levels VI-IV, University Museum: Philadelphia, 1966.
James, Frances W. & McGovern, Patrick E.
1993 The Late Bronze Egyptian Garrison at Beth Shan: A Study of Levels VII and VIII, 2 volumes, University Museum: Philadelphia, 1993.
Mazar, Amihai
1993 “Beth Shean in the Iron Age: Preliminary Report and Conclusions of the 1990-1991 Excavations”, IEJ 43 (1993), pp.201-229.
1997 “Four Thousand Years of History at Tel Beth-Shean”, BA 60.2 (1997), pp.62-76.
Mazar, A., Ziv-Esudri, Adi & Cohen-Weinberger, Anet
2000 “The Early Bronze Age II-III at Tel Beth Shean: Preliminary Observations”, in Philip, G. & Baird, D. (eds), Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant, [Levantine Archaeology 2], Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000, pp.255-278.
Oren, Eliezer D.
1973 The Northern Cemetery of Beth-Shean, [Museum Monograph of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania], E.J. Brill: Leiden, 1973.
Porter, R.M.
1994-95 “Dating the Beth Shean Temple Sequence”, Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum 7 (1994-95), pp.52-69.
1998 “An Egyptian Temple at Tel Beth Shean and Ramesses IV”, in Eyre, C. (ed.), Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, 3-9 September 1995, [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 82], Uitgeverij Peeters: Leuven, 1998, pp.903-910.
Rowe, Alan
1930 The Topography and History of Beth-shan, Beth-shan I, University Museum: Philadelphia, 1930.
1940 The Four Canaanite Temples of Beth-shan, Beth-shan II:1, University Museum: Philadelphia, 1940.
Sweeney, Deborah
1998 “The Man on the Folding Chair: An Egyptian Relief from Beth Shean”, IEJ 48 (1998), pp.38-53.
Thompson, T.O.
1970 Mekal, the God of Beth Shean, E.J. Brill: Leiden, 1970.
Yadin, Yigael and Geva, S.
1986 Investigations at Beth Shean, The Early Iron Age Strata, [Qedem 23], Israel Exploration Society: Jerusalem, 1986.
Yannai, Eli
1996 “A New Approach to Levels VI-V at Tel Beth-Shan”, TA 23 (1996), pp.185-?
hellenistic & roman periods
Bar-Nathan, R. & Mazor, G.
1994 “Beth Shean during the Hellenistic Period”, Qadmoniot 27 (1994), pp.87-92 (Hebrew).
Fitzgerald, G.M.
1931 Beth-shan Excavations 1921-23: the Arab and Byzantine Levels, Beth-shan III, University Museum: Philadelphia, 1931.
Tsafrir, Y. and Foerster, G.
1994 “The Hebrew University Excavations at Beth Shean, 1980-1994”, Qadmoniot 27 (1994), pp.93-116.
medieval, arab & ottoman periods
Fitzgerald, G.M.
1931 Beth-shan Excavations 1921-23: the Arab and Byzantine Levels, Beth-shan III, University Museum: Philadelphia, 1931.
Hadad, Shulamit & Khamis, Elias
1998 “Inscribed Pottery Lamps from the Early Islamic Period at Beth Shean”, IEJ 48 (1998), pp.66-76.
Seligman, J.
1994 “Excavations in the Crusader Fortress at Beth Shean”, Qadmoniot 27 (1994), pp.138-141 (Hebrew).