The Land That I Will Show You: Archaeology Conference Recordings

THE land that i will show you: october 25-28, 2020

Conference recordings

We are pleased to share the full recordings from "The Land That I Will Show You" Recent Archaeological & Historical Studies of Ancient Israel, which took place virtually on October 25-28, 2020. The recordings, found below, are broken down by session.  Please note that some speakers declined to be recorded, so these presentations were omitted.

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The conference was generously sponsored by:

NYU Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies | NYU Tel Aviv | Global Network for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies

Israel Antiquities Authority | Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority

DAY 1: Sunday, October 25

Plenary Session

Chair and Opening Remarks - Alex Jassen, New York University

Greeting and Welcome - Andrew D. Hamilton, President, New York University

Welcome- Gideon Avni, Israel Antiquities Authority, Emily Master, Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority, & Benjamin Hary New York University, 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, New York University Tel Aviv, Hebrew Union College

Plenary Session

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 & Jacob Vardi, Israel Antiquities Authority

En Esur: The Largest Urban Center of the Early Bronze Age - Yitzhak Paz, Israel Antiquities Authority

Recent Excavations in Israel: From Early People to Early Cities, New IAA Excavations

Israel and the Surrounding Cultures

Chair: Liane Feldman, New York University

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

Israel and the Surrounding Cultures

DAY 2: Monday, October 26

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

Religion and Society in the Iron Age

New Discoveries in Jerusalem

Chair:  Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University

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

New Discoveries in Jerusalem

Urbanization

Chair: Edan Raviv, New York University, Tel Aviv

Between the Classical City and the Islamic Madina, a View from the Holy Land - Gideon Avni, Israel Antiquities Authority

On Some Unique Architectural Discoveries in Caesarea Maritima - Joseph Patrich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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

Urbanization

DAY 3: Tuesday, May 19

Between Old and New Canaan

Chair: Ilana Goldberg, New York University 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 - Nurith 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

Between Old and New Canaan

The United Monarchy between Image and Reality

Chair: Yifat Thareani, New York University 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

The United Monarchy between Image and Reality

Science and Technology -- SESSION NOT RECORDED

DAY 4: Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Synagogues and Churches

Chair: Annette Reed, New York University

Building God’s House: Synagogues, Churches, and Intercommunal Relations in Late Antique Palestine - Zeev Weiss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

“A Place to Read, to Interpret and to Hear Petitions”: Samaritan Synagogues in Late Antiquity - Steven Fine, Yeshiva University

Synagogues and Churches

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, New York University

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

Judah and Israel

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

Archaeology & Roman Period Judaism & Christianity

Closing Session

Chair: Benjamin Hary, New York University Tel Aviv

Roman Judea, Three Views: Jerusalem, Qumran and Caesarea - Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University

Closing & Thanks - Gideon Avni, Israel Antiquities Authority & Emily Master, Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority

Closing Session