Ascah

Name: Ascah
Age: Approximately 30
Profession: Widow
Gender: Female
Time period: Late Bronze 1/Early Kassite/Middle Assyrian/Mitanni/New Kingdom: Dynasties 18-20. Just around the year 1500 BC.
Geographic Region: Shephelah--Behind the Hill Country of Judah

After the lecture of grain harvesting and widows, I decided that a widow has the potential to create a very interesting story. As a woman who must rely on scavenging the remains of fields after a harvest, she will be able to observe the different farming practices. She will be an outsider looking in at civilization. This will create insight that an insider would not get. The main reason I chose the geographic region is because I would very much like to learn more about the terraced hills. This concept is very intriguing to me. In Shephelah there are rolling hills, and it is extremely fertile. Because it is a disputed border zone I believe that Shephelah will contain a very rich history. I am very excited about doing more research about what life for Ascah would hold, and how Shephelah functioned at 1500 BC.
--Harrison (Hank) Stein
JWST2662

P.S. I hope this is detailed enough or is how you wanted this written.

Bibiliography:
Rainey, A. F. "The Biblical Shephelah of Judah." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Researc       251 (1983): 1-22. JSTOR. Web. 23 Sept. 2011 <http://http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/stable/1356823?&Search=yes&searchText=shephelah&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dshephelah%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don&prevSearch=&item=1&ttl=465&returnArticleService=showFullText>.


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