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Cayden Griffith, 2022听Steven B. Dana Scholarship Recipient
Firstly, I would like to thank both 17吃瓜and the donors who provided this scholarship; I would not have been able to have this great experience without their support.
This summer I was apart of the Huqoq 2022 field season, directed by Dr. Jodi Magness from the University of North Carolina. Huqoq was a Jewish village, containing a monumental synagogue built in the 5th century CE, which sits upon a hill northwest of the Sea of Galilee. This synagogue, notable for its many well preserved floor mosaics, was the focus of the excavation.
A typical day in the life at Huqoq involved waking up at 4am, taking a bus, and then finally a short hike to the excavation site. Our hike to and from the site was quite literally uphill both ways but the stary sky in the morning and the conversations on the way back always made it worthwhile. Once we set up the site we were ready to excavate until 8am. From there we would have a five-star field breakfast with eggs, pancakes, fruit, and a variety of local foods as well. With this boost from breakfast we would once again be hard at work until 11am, where we would then have a fruit break, which we called 鈥渆levensies鈥�, before going back to work finishing up the day鈥檚 excavation and then getting ready to leave around 12:30pm. We then would then hike back uphill to the busses and have lunch at the kibbutz we were staying at.
Following this long morning, we would have an equally busy yet fun afternoon. We would start by washing or tagging pottery. We would then be able to attend a lecture by one of our site鈥檚 knowledgeable staff and specialists or we would visit a local archaeological site. After all of this we would try and get some sleep before doing the whole thing all over again the next morning.
While we were excavating, I worked in the area east of the synagogue. On our site following the destruction of the late roman synagogue, a medieval synagogue was built over the previous building using some of the walls of the previous synagogue and expanding them elsewhere. In the eastern area, where I was working, in previous seasons they had discovered a medieval vaulted structure, close to the eastern wall of the medieval synagogue.
Due to this find when excavating we expected to find further evidence of this medieval structure, and thought that this may have been a pilgrimage site for those wishing to see the tomb of the prophet Habakkuk, one of the 12 minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. While we have not yet found any direct evidence of the Medieval vaulted structure being a pilgrimage site for the tomb of Habakkuk -we liked to joke that we would find a sarcophagus with the inscription 鈥淗ere Lies Habakkuk鈥� 鈥� while digging we made an unexpected but maybe even more exciting discovery connected to the late Roman synagogue, which is all I can mention here.
However, if you are interested, please visit the Huqoq site鈥檚 website where they will post updates when there is a publication:听.
Not only was I able to learn so much from our site鈥檚 great staff in the field but I also was able to attend lectures by our staff and specialists about a variety of other topics as well. These ranged from archaeological method, ceramics, painted plaster, architecture, local history and much more.
Additionally I was able to see many important sights within Israel including Capernaum, Sepphoris, Caesarea, Tel Dan, Banyas, and Megiddo, to name a few. Being a student of Koine Greek, it was amazing to visit and see some of the places which I had only read about. This gave me a deeper appreciation and understanding of these stories as it left me in awe, as simply looking off into the distance at our excavations there were sights of important historical events or locations of biblical stories.
Also, during the excavation new sections of the floor mosaics from the late Roman synagogue were unearthed, which were fascinating. I will not touch on them here but please see this link if you are interested:听.
Cayden Griffith is currently a senior at Austin college where he is majoring in Classics, Anthropology, and History.
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Monuments, Monumental Architecture, and Monumentality in Ancient Israel
Friends of ASOR听present the last webinar this season on听May 25, 2023, at 3:00 pm EDT, featuring Dr. Kyle Keimer. 鈥�Monumental architecture鈥� is something that is often discussed in the archaeology of ancient Israel, but seldom defined. The same is true for 鈥渕onuments鈥� in ancient Israel. Following recent directions in anthropological archaeology, this talk defines both terms and incorporates the concept of monumentality to discuss where value and significance lay in ancient Israel. Buildings (political, cultic, and social) and small objects alike had both functional and symbolic aspects, and it is only by considering such aspects equally that it becomes possible to plumb the depths of the biblical text for those architectural features that carried exceptional value.
Join Dr. Kyle Keimer as he surveys the monuments and monumental architecture attested to both in the archaeological record of the Iron Ages I-II and in the Hebrew Bible in order to evaluate their monumentality across differing sociopolitical contexts in pre-monarchic and monarchic Israel (and Judah).听A live Q&A session will follow this lecture.
Dr. Kyle Keimer is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Archaeology, History, and Language of Ancient Israel at Macquarie University, Sydney. He co-directed excavations at the site of Khirbet el-Ra鈥檌 in southern Israel and is the co-host of The Biblical World podcast. His research bridges both text and archaeology, with an emphasis on the early Iron Age and early Israelite monarchy. His interests also include historical geography and ancient warfare. After finishing his PhD at UCLA, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeology before becoming a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University. He has over 20 years of archaeological experience in Israel and Cyprus, working on excavations spanning from the Early Bronze Age to the Ottoman Period. His publications include two edited volumes and over 30 articles.
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Where Are They Now?: A Preview of 2022 ASOR-Affiliated Fieldwork Projects Michael Given (University of Glasgow), Xenia-Paula Kyriakou (Florida Gulf Coast University), Stephen Batiuk (University of Toronto), Monique Roddy (Walla Walla University), Kent Bramlett (La Sierra University), Friedbert Ninow (La Sierra University), and Michael Hoff (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) | March 8, 2022
Tel Rehov: A Major Bronze and Iron Age City in the Jordan Valley Amihai Mazar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Nava Panitz-Cohen ( Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Nota Kourou (Athens University), Naama Yahalom-Mack (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Robert Mullins (Azusa Pacific University) | February 10, 2022
Archaeogaming: Why Video Games Deserve Their Own Archaeology Tine Rassalle (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Shannon Martino (Morton College), Matthew Winter (University of Arizona), Michael Zimmerman (Rhode Island) | April 18, 2021
17吃瓜is pleased to announce that听Maarav听is now part of the 17吃瓜journal family and is available to 17吃瓜members with online access to all of our journals (NEA, BASOR, and听JCS) through the University of Chicago Press platform.听Maarav听is a journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures with an emphasis on linguistics, philology, and literary studies. This journal is devoted to the texts and verbal objects of the ancient Levant featuring Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and related languages. In addition to research on their verbal features,听Maarav听welcomes inquiry into their material, visual, and social aspects, their cultural horizons and relationships, and contemporary interests like the technological developments in decipherment, storage, representation, and analysis and the history and current practices of acquiring and interpreting ancient objects.
Please read the letter from the editor, Simeon Chavel (University of Chicago), below.
Dear Members,
It is an honor to follow Bruce Zuckerman (founder, 1978鈥�2002) and Christopher Rollston (2002鈥�2022) and serve as the third Editor of听Maarav. The journal will continue to center on the inscriptions found in the Levant (Syro-Palestine) of the Late Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and the Persian period written in the languages characteristic of the region. At its core will be study of the inscriptions鈥� material, linguistic, and literary aspects. Around the core will be studies comparing earlier and later inscriptions and literature; comparing literature in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Mediterranean; and reconstructing Levantine societies, culture, and history. Anchored in distinct objects (verbal ones) defined by period and place rather than in tradition (biblical),听Maarav听sees itself as representing a crucial node and nexus of several overlapping fields of study of the ancient world, and it aims to serve robustly in that capacity.
Select topics illustrating the range are:
the origins and spread of the alphabetic writing system and its comparison with other systems
the varied uses of writing
the genres of writing in general and of literature in particular
the relationship of writing to art and to place, in immediate, broader, static, and dynamic contexts
the wealth of religious, mythical, and other speculative lore
the place of magic in society and in thought
the significant role of writers (鈥渟cribes鈥�)
regimes of administration and power
the reach of concepts and practices across many regions and down through time.
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Wide-ranging developments make this a promising time for听Maarav听to thrive鈥攄evelopments in the technologies of deciphering images and of presenting them; in approaches to the material and social worlds of verbal objects; in the analysis of gender and of humanness; in the reconstruction of Levantine societies and ethnicity in their imperial contexts; in the understanding of cultural interaction from Mesopotamia across the Mediterranean; and in the ethics鈥攖he politics and the economics鈥攐f imperially enabled scholarship today.
Maarav听looks to fit in wonderfully at 17吃瓜alongside听BASOR,听JCS, and听NEA, and and is excited to be available to you, their inquisitive and learned readers. It plans to be published semiannually. The board of editors draws on three pools of colleagues: continuing editors, faculty at the University of Chicago, and additional scholars who represent desired areas of expertise and emerging trends. You can see the board, keep up with new issues, and access back-issues听.
Yours,
Simeon Chavel
This journal is only available to active members including Regular with online only access, Regular with both online and print delivery, Retired with online only access, Retired with both online access and print delivery, Sustaining, Early Career, Graduate, and Undergraduate levels. Associate and Contributing members do not have access to听Maarav.
Please take a look at the听ASOR听Maarav听publication page here听or look at the selection of back issues on the听. If you are an 17吃瓜member with access, you will need to be logged into the听听to access this journal. Contact听membership@asor.org听if you have questions on how to access听Maarav.
17吃瓜2025鈥擲trengthening Our Foundation | Expanding Horizons鈥擜 Call to Action
In 2025, 17吃瓜will be hitting its 125 year mark. Yes, fellow 17吃瓜members and friends, our quasquicentennial is nearly upon us, and we have听cause to celebrate!
A first cause for celebration听is that 17吃瓜members continue to be engines of research, education, publication, and engagement about the history and cultures of the Near East and the wider Mediterranean world.
This work has never been more needed. So, amid celebration, we confront challenges. Worldwide threats to cultural heritage are a great concern, because we know that targeting people鈥檚 cultural heritage is a first step toward violence and extremism. Also, such losses cannot be undone. The humanities bring this into focus, yet dollars to fund these departments and this research are being siphoned off elsewhere. Some professional organizations focused on past human experience are shrinking. Not so for ASOR!
This is a second cause for celebration. Our membership is expanding. 17吃瓜is in solid financial shape. You have created a foundation for positive change and action.
To continue this momentum, 17吃瓜has embarked on a grand challenge, a $5 million dollar鈥�$5,000,000鈥攆undraising initiative.听Our third cause for celebration听is that generous 17吃瓜members already have pledged or given $2.7 million dollars, with more coming.
This is a call to action, asking you to help shape the future through the discovery, documenting, and protecting of cultural heritage in innovative ways. I ask you to think how you can join in this effort to equip 17吃瓜to meet the challenges of this moment.
Your gift of support to 17吃瓜makes a real difference. With your participation, 17吃瓜can:
Increase membership support:听You can strengthen and widen ASOR鈥檚 geographic impact throughout the Middle East and North Africa with scholarships, research fellowships and excavation project grants including citizens from countries that lack resources. 2.听Widen and expand ASOR鈥檚 publications:听You can ensure that 17吃瓜continues to disseminate knowledge and educate the public in an economic climate where support for scholarship is shrinking. 3.听Make 17吃瓜more accessible to everyone:听You can address financial need for access in North America, North Africa, the Middle East, and around the world. With you, 17吃瓜can set an example with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that span language and cultural divides. 4.听Grow Cultural Heritage Initiatives:听You can support cultural heritage stabilization, documentation, and mitigation efforts. You can guarantee that 17吃瓜continues to be seen as a world leader in protecting heritage and ensure the continuation of education and stewardship programs that combat violent extremism and misuse of heritage by authoritarian rulers. 5.听Develop Greater Online Access:听You can fund innovations in the rapidly growing field of online and virtual resources to make research accessible to everyone with a computer, tablet, or phone. 6.听Expand the Friends of 17吃瓜Programs:听You can help underwrite education and outreach programs that will broaden ASOR鈥檚 membership and bring non-academic supporters with an interest in the ancient world to our organization. 7.听Strengthen the Foundation of ASOR鈥檚 Operations:听You can safeguard ASOR鈥檚 work to 2050 and beyond through the Annual Fund, or with endowment gifts to sustain operational staffing and capital needs at the James F. Strange Center, or through efforts to make 17吃瓜more sustainable.
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These are but a few ideas. Studies of the human past have never faced greater obstacles, but 17吃瓜has the financial stability and talent to find innovative solutions. Each of us is a critical part of this effort. If you and I do not respond to this call to action to shape the future of our profession and document and protect cultural heritage in innovative ways, who will?听YOU CAN BE PART OF THIS HISTORIC MOMENT, CREATING CHANGE & MAKING A LEGACY. ORGANIZATIONS THRIVE BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU.听Please join in celebrating our 125th year with 鈥�17吃瓜2025鈥� Strengthening Our Foundation | Expanding Horizons鈥擜 Call to Action.鈥�
Jesus Reading Scripture: Exploring the Archaeology of Worship in First-Century Synagogues
听present the next webinar in our monthly series on听May 11, 2023, at 6:00 pm EDT, featuring Dr. Paul V. M. Flesher听and moderated by Dr. Matthew Grey.听The New Testament gospels frequently place Jesus in or near the religious buildings of first-century Galilee, the synagogues. Unfortunately, they never describe these buildings, and apart from Luke 4, they give few details about the rituals that take place inside them. That absence hinders the study of Jesus in the religious context that shaped his life. Even the chapter-long story of Luke 4鈥攚here Jesus was given the honor of reading Scripture and then was thrown out of the synagogue鈥攆ails to provide sufficient information for us to readily understand it. Why did the congregation as a whole get so angry that they wanted to kill him?
As a historian and an archaeologist, Paul Flesher brings our earliest knowledge of synagogue rituals into conjunction with excavated first-century synagogues to answer that question. By focusing on Luke 4 and the Gamla synagogue鈥攁s a representative of first-century synagogues in general鈥擣lesher explores how the synagogues鈥� architectural layout shaped the spatial and social dynamics of the people inside it to reveal two important points. First, the synagogue reinforced the tight bond between Scripture and the synagogue congregation through the positioning of the congregation and the ritual space of the Scripture reading. Second, the congregation鈥檚 mood changed so quickly from honor to rejection because the synagogue鈥檚 layout enhanced the communication not just between Jesus and the congregation but also among the members of the congregation themselves. Their ability to act as a coordinated group came from the synagogue鈥檚 internal, architectural structure.
Join Dr. Paul Flesher as he discusses Luke 4 and the Gamla synagogue to reveal how the internal architecture of synagogues can influence the spatial and social dynamics of the people inside it.听A live Q&A session will be moderated by Dr. Matthew Grey (Brigham Young University).
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Dr. Paul V. M. Flesher is a Professor of Religious Studies, at the University of Wyoming, and director of the American Heritage Center. Since the 1980s, Paul Flesher has focused on the dynamics of religious change that Judaism underwent during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, beginning with his masters work under Geza Vermes at Oxford University and his doctoral work under Jacob Neusner at Brown University. A specialist in Rabbinic Judaism and an expert in the history and texts of the Aramaic Targums, Flesher helped found the International Organization of Targumic Study in the early 1990s, serving on its board for two decades and as its president for six years. At the same time, he began researching the early history of synagogues, publishing several articles and an edited volume that brought together new research by American and Israeli scholars. A teacher at heart, Flesher founded the Religious Studies program, and later the department, at the University of Wyoming. Flesher鈥檚 excavation career began at Tel Miqne in 1995, but seriously got underway in 2012 when he joined the staff of the Huqoq Excavation Project, then later the Legio excavations conducted by the Jezreel Valley Regional Project. His current research is in archaeo-acoustics, working to reconstruct the sound dynamics of ancient synagogues. In 2019, Flesher took a change of course and became the director of the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, one of the largest, non-governmental archives in the USA.
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Several levels of support from $50-$1,000 are available. Proceeds go towards membership scholarships and towards increasing ASOR鈥檚 virtual resources. Each sponsorship is tax-deductible and you can give your friends free registrations to a webinar!
Bronze Level ($50): up to 2 guest registrations Silver Level ($100): up to 5 guest registrations Gold Level ($500): up to 20 guest registrations Platinum Level ($1,000): up to 50 guest registrations
After you sign up for a sponsorship online or over the phone, email the names and email addresses of your guests to Felice Herman at听membership@asor.org,听who will send your guests a confirmation and the Zoom link before the webinar.
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Join 17吃瓜as a member!听Click here for more details听about discounts for events and other benefits of membership. Memberships start at $40 for the year as an听Associate Member.
You can now purchase the link to the recording of any webinar. You can also purchase the bundle packages of all webinars from the听2020-2022 seasons. Please e-mail听membership@asor.org听for purchase details.
To see a printable pdf of the webinar titles from the 2020-2021 season, please听click here. To see a printable pdf of the webinar titles from the 2021-2022 season, please听click here.
Where Are They Now?: A Preview of 2022 ASOR-Affiliated Fieldwork Projects Michael Given (University of Glasgow), Xenia-Paula Kyriakou (Florida Gulf Coast University), Stephen Batiuk (University of Toronto), Monique Roddy (Walla Walla University), Kent Bramlett (La Sierra University), Friedbert Ninow (La Sierra University), and Michael Hoff (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) | March 8, 2022
Tel Rehov: A Major Bronze and Iron Age City in the Jordan Valley Amihai Mazar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Nava Panitz-Cohen ( Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Nota Kourou (Athens University), Naama Yahalom-Mack (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Robert Mullins (Azusa Pacific University) | February 10, 2022
Archaeogaming: Why Video Games Deserve Their Own Archaeology Tine Rassalle (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Shannon Martino (Morton College), Matthew Winter (University of Arizona), Michael Zimmerman (Rhode Island) | April 18, 2021
Maarav听is a journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures with an emphasis on linguistics, philology, and literary studies. This journal is devoted to the texts and verbal objects of the ancient Levant featuring Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and related languages. In addition to research on their verbal features,听Maarav听welcomes inquiry into their material, visual, and social aspects, their cultural horizons and relationships, and contemporary interests like the technological developments in decipherment, storage, representation, and analysis and the history and current practices of acquiring and interpreting ancient objects.
Beginning in 2023, Maarav听will join three other 17吃瓜journals published in partnership with the University of Chicago Press: the听Bulletin of ASOR, the听Journal of Cuneiform Studies, and听Near Eastern Archaeology.
Under the leadership of Professor Simeon Chavel (University of Chicago), an internationally renowned editorial board will ensure that the journal remains a leader in the field of Northwest Semitics. Professor Bruce Zuckerman (University of Southern California) has agreed to remain on the team as Editor Emeritus.
After being published exclusively in print,听Maarav听will be available electronically starting with Volume 27, the first issue published by the University of Chicago Press and ASOR. Back issues are now digitized, providing seamless access to the journal鈥檚 full archive for all institutional subscribers and 17吃瓜members. e-Book copies of听Maarav听will be available to all 17吃瓜members beginning with issues published in 2023.
Current Issue
The current issue of听Maarav听features the following articles: 鈥淭he Anger of the Queen Has Gone Forth鈥�: Ilimilku鈥檚 Warning to Urtenu in a Ugaritic Piggyback Letter; The Rise of 鈥淣ational鈥� Scripts in the Iron Age II: A Proposal; and Conflate Readings and the Lamentations Textual Tradition.听Table of Contents
Past Issues
The past issue of听Maarav听features the following articles: The First Tablet of the Ugaritic听Krt听Text, Column II, Lines 4鈥�5: Reading and Reconstruction; 鈥淎nd I Deported 示Ari示膿l, Its Leader, from There鈥�: Line 12 of the Mesha Inscription in Light of Shared Scribal Practices in Moab and Ancient South Arabia; Beth-Shemesh East and the听lmlk听Stamped Jar handles: A Rejoinder; and more.听Table of Contents
A Guide to the Online Features of 17吃瓜Journals
Maarav听is ASOR’s newest publication. Did you know that online access with an ASOR听听Membership includes access to all four 17吃瓜journals? Did you know that听听and听听members get access to听NEA听online as well as print delivery? Did you know that all the back issues of 17吃瓜journals are available to view online? Or that you can view any issue using special features on the University of Chicago Press Journals platform?听
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Paul Lapp鈥檚 team last excavated at Tell Ta鈥檃nnek in 1968, over fifty years ago. During that time, much effort has been expended on the final publication of the site鈥檚 stratigraphy and material, even though few final manuscripts have reached the publication stage. Walter Rast鈥檚 work with the Iron Age pottery was the notable exception and was published in 1978. The present volume uses Rast鈥檚 ceramic chronology as the basis for the periodization of the Iron Age strata excavated by Lapp in 1963, 1966, and 1968. After covering the background of the site and Sellin鈥檚 excavation of it in the early twentieth century, Meehl presents the Iron Age stratigraphy area by area, period by period, based on the field notes, reports, plans, and photographs of the excavators. Two chapters describe the Iron Age occupations on Tell Ta鈥檃nnek, setting them in their regional contexts. Appendices addressing the date of the Iron Age fortifications and fire installations and pits follow. Iron Age pottery forms and drainpipes not included in Rast鈥檚 book are included in a third appendix.
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Friends of ASOR听present the next webinar in our monthly series on听April 27, 2023, at 3:00 pm EDT, featuring Prof. Thomas Levy and moderated by Dr. Ian Jones.听For many archaeologists, their lives can best be described as 鈥渁 life in ruins.鈥� As seen in Tom Levy鈥檚 forthcoming book,听The Boomer Archaeologist 鈥� A Graphic Memoir of Tribes, Identity, and the Holy Land,听this is indeed the case. Except for some brief periods working as a cowboy, Levy has worked only as an archaeologist 鈥� from early beginnings in the American Southwest in the late 1960s, to professional research in Israel, Greece, and Jordan. Reflecting on more than 50 years as a Levantine field archaeologist, Tom discusses some of the motivations for becoming an archaeologist working in the Holy Land, his role in the application of new methods and theories in the changing field of anthropological archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean, his transition from desert to underwater archaeology, and some of the challenges facing US universities that will affect the future of American research in the field of Levantine archaeology.
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Based on his forthcoming graphic memoir,听The Boomer Archaeologist, the lecture will include听ligne claire听drawings by the memoir鈥檚 graphic artist Lily Almeida and photographs from several of Prof. Levy鈥檚 projects that tell the story of changes in method and theory in Levantine archaeology over the past 50 years. These projects span the metallurgical revolution during the Chalcolithic period, the rise of the Edomite kingdom known from the Hebrew Bible, and ancient environmental and social change observed through underwater archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean.
Join Prof. Levy as he discusses his new graphic memoir in telling the story of a lifetime professional working in and off the coast of the Holy Land. The webinar will conclude with a Q&A session moderated by Dr. Ian Jones (University of California, San Diego).
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Prof. Thomas Levy is the Distinguished Professor, and inaugural holder of the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego. He is the founder and co-director of the Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holder of an honorary doctorate from Charles University (Czech Republic), Levy is a widely published Levantine field archaeologist with interests in the role of technology, especially early mining and metallurgy, and on the evolution of societies, especially in eastern Mediterranean. Tom has published 15 archaeology books and over 250 scholarly articles. Levy鈥檚 recent focuses are on marine archaeology and paleoenvironmental change during the Neolithic to Classical periods off the Carmel coast of Israel with the University of Haifa, where he is a research associate.
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Where Are They Now?: A Preview of 2022 ASOR-Affiliated Fieldwork Projects Michael Given (University of Glasgow), Xenia-Paula Kyriakou (Florida Gulf Coast University), Stephen Batiuk (University of Toronto), Monique Roddy (Walla Walla University), Kent Bramlett (La Sierra University), Friedbert Ninow (La Sierra University), and Michael Hoff (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) | March 8, 2022
Tel Rehov: A Major Bronze and Iron Age City in the Jordan Valley Amihai Mazar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Nava Panitz-Cohen ( Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Nota Kourou (Athens University), Naama Yahalom-Mack (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Robert Mullins (Azusa Pacific University) | February 10, 2022
Archaeogaming: Why Video Games Deserve Their Own Archaeology Tine Rassalle (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Shannon Martino (Morton College), Matthew Winter (University of Arizona), Michael Zimmerman (Rhode Island) | April 18, 2021
Dr. Kyle Keimer is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Archaeology, History, and Language of Ancient Israel at Macquarie University, Sydney. He co-directed excavations at the site of Khirbet el-Ra鈥檌 in southern Israel and is the co-host of The Biblical World podcast. His research bridges both text and archaeology, with an emphasis on the early Iron Age and early Israelite monarchy. His interests also include historical geography and ancient warfare. After finishing his PhD at UCLA, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeology before becoming a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University. He has over 20 years of archaeological experience in Israel and Cyprus, working on excavations spanning from the Early Bronze Age to the Ottoman Period. His publications include two edited volumes and over 30 articles.
As a historian and an archaeologist, Paul Flesher brings our earliest knowledge of synagogue rituals into conjunction with excavated first-century synagogues to answer that question. By focusing on Luke 4 and the Gamla synagogue鈥攁s a representative of first-century synagogues in general鈥擣lesher explores how the synagogues鈥� architectural layout shaped the spatial and social dynamics of the people inside it to reveal two important points. First, the synagogue reinforced the tight bond between Scripture and the synagogue congregation through the positioning of the congregation and the ritual space of the Scripture reading. Second, the congregation鈥檚 mood changed so quickly from honor to rejection because the synagogue鈥檚 layout enhanced the communication not just between Jesus and the congregation but also among the members of the congregation themselves. Their ability to act as a coordinated group came from the synagogue鈥檚 internal, architectural structure.
