The NYU Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies, NYU Tel Aviv, the Global Network for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies and the Israel Antiquities Authority, and the Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority present
"The Land that I Will Show You" Recent Archaeological & Historical Studies of Ancient Israel
Sunday, October 25 - Wednesday, October 28, 2020
via Zoom
Day 1: Sunday, October 25
(Registration link available below each day's schedule)
11:00 AM Plenary Session
Chair and Opening Remarks
Alex Jassen (NYU)
Welcome
Gideon Avni (Israel Antiquities Authority), Emily Master (Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority) & Benjamin Hary (NYU Tel Aviv)
Archaeological Research in Jerusalem: More than Just Archeology
Yuval Baruch (Israel Antiquities Authority)
In Praise of the Conquered: Identity Making in Israel and Judah in the Face of Assyrian Rule
Yifat Thareani (NYU Tel Aviv, Hebrew Union College)
1:00 PM Recent Excavations in Israel: From Early People to Early Cities, New IAA Excavations
Chair: Emily Master (Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
In Search of the Origins of Modern Human and the Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic at Manot Cave, Israel
Omry Barzilai (Israel Antiquities Authority)
Motza: A Neolithic Megalopolis in the Outskirts of Jerusalem
Hamoudi Khalaily (Israel Antiquities Authority)
En Esur: The Largest Urban Center of the Early Bronze Age
Yitzhak Paz (Israel Antiquities Authority)
3:30 PM Israel and the Surrounding Cultures
Chair: Liane Feldman (NYU)
David, Solomon and Edom: Reflections from the Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project
Thomas E. Levy (University of California, San Diego)
The Forgotten Kingdom of Geshur
Rami Arav (University of Nebraska)
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Day 2, Monday, October 26, 2020
9:00 AM Religion and Society in the Iron Age
Chair: Andrea Weiss (Hebrew Union College)
Ritual Experts: Women in Israelite Households
Carol Meyers (Duke University)
Recent Study of Israelite Religion and Divinity
Mark Smith (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Religion and Cult of the Philistines and their Interaction with Israel and Judah
Aren Maeir (Bar-Ilan University)
11:00 AM New Discoveries in Jerusalem
Chair: Lawrence H. Schiffman (NYU)
Jerusalem Unearthed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Jerusalem and their Significance
Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University)
Roman Jerusalem as Seen from the Excavations beneath Wilson's Arch
Joe Uziel (Israel Antiquities Authority)
Herodian Jerusalem: In light of New Finds from the Western Wall Tunnels
Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah (Israel Antiquities Authority)
The Jewish Character of Jerusalem of the Early Roman Period as Attested by the Archaeological Record
Ronny Reich (University of Haifa)
1:30 PM Urbanization
Chair: Edan Raviv (NYU Tel Aviv)
Between the Classical City and the Islamic Madina, a View from the Holy Land
Gideon Avni (Israel Antiquities Authority)
Sepphoris an Urban and Cultural Center: Where Hellenism and Jewish Life Prospered
Eric Meyers (Duke University)
How Salem Became Jerusalem: An Archaeological View
Robert R. Cargill (University of Iowa)
On Some Unique Architectural Discoveries in Caesarea Maritima
Joseph Patrich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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Day 3, Tuesday, October 27, 2020
9:00 AM Between Old and New Canaan
Chair: Ilana Goldberg (NYU Tel Aviv)
The Fate of New Canaan
Daniel Master (Wheaton College)
1177 BC Revisited: The Late Bronze Age Collapse and Its Immediate Aftermath
Eric Cline (George Washington University)
''Thou Shalt Make No Graven Image'': An Archaeological Speculation on the Origins of the Second Commandment
David Ilan (Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem)
Constructing Power: Monumental Architecture and Materials in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant
Nurit Goshen (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
The Levant in Crisis: The Archaeology of Migrants, Refugees, and Colonizers at the End of the Bronze Age
Ann E. Killebrew (The Pennsylvania State University)
12:00 PM The United Monarchy between Image and Reality
Chair: Yifat Thareani (NYU Tel Aviv, Hebrew Union College)
The United Monarchy Between Reality and Myth: An Archaeological Perspective
Amihai Mazar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The 10th Century BCE: a "United Monarchy" or a Kingdom of Judah?
Yosef Garfinkel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
What is the Origin of the United Monarchy Concept in the Bible?
Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University)
2:00 PM Science and Technology
Chair: Guy Stiebel (Tel Aviv University)
Biblical Incenses: Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of Arad
Eran Arie (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem & Dvory Namdar, Agricultural Research Organization)
Magdala of the Dyers: Maritime Technology in the 1st Century CE Village on the Coast of the Sea of Galilee
Nimrod Marom (University of Haifa)
Exploring History Hidden in the Stones: When was Wilson's Arch, the Way to the Temple Mount, Built?
Elisabetta Boaretto (Weizmann Institute)
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Day 4, Wednesday, October 28, 2020
9:00 AM Synagogues and Churches
Chair: Annette Reed (NYU)
Building God’s House: Synagogues, Churches, and Intercommunal Relations in Late Antique Palestine
Zeev Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Huqoq Synagogue Mosaics: Recent Discoveries
Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina)
“A Place to Read, to Interpret and to Hear Petitions”: Samaritan Synagogues in Late Antiquity
Steven Fine (Yeshiva University)
11:00 AM Judah and Israel
Chair: Ayelet Gilboa (University of Haifa)
Pictorial Representations of Yahweh in 8th-6th Centuries BC Jerusalem: Images, Symbols and the Bible Ban on Images
Tallay Ornan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Little Israel of David in the Absalom Narrative
Daniel Fleming (NYU)
Israel and Judah: Two Kingdoms or Two Peoples?
Avraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University)
Naboth’s Vineyard and the Archaeology of Jezreel
Norma Franklin (University of Haifa)
1:30 PM Archaeology and Roman Period Judaism and Christianity
Chair: Steven Fine (Yeshiva University)
Herodian Jerusalem as an Urban Center between Eastern Hellenism, Roman Rule and Jewish Identity
Orit Peleg-Barkat (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Unearthing the Historical Pontius Pilate
Steven Notley (Nyack College)
Archaeological Explorations at 'En Qobi in the Jerusalem Hills
Boaz Zissu (Bar-Ilan University)
3:30 PM Closing Session
Chair: Benjamin Hary (NYU Tel Aviv)
Roman Judea, Three Views: Jerusalem, Qumran and Caesarea
Lawrence H. Schiffman (NYU)
Closing & Thanks
Gideon Avni (Israel Antiquities Authority)
Emily Master (Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
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For more information, contact: gsas.hebrewjudaic@nyu.edu