• Classical Arabic (limited working proficiency) • French (professional proficiency) • German (professional proficiency) • Greek (professional proficiency) • Hebrew (native/bilingual proficiency) • Latin (limited working proficiency) • Spanish (professional proficiency)
Specialization:
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (especially archaeology of Palestine); Early Judaism
Relevant Experience:
Participated in over 20 excavations in Israel, including co-directing the 1995 excavations of the Roman siege works at Masada. Since 2003, has co-directed excavations at the Roman fort at Yotvata, Israel
Distinctions:
Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism (beginning January 2003). The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls won the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society Award for the Best Popular Book in Archaeology of 2001-2002 and was selected as an "Outstanding Academic Book for 2003" by Choice Magazine. Has held fellowships from/at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University; the Fulbright Foundation (for appointment at Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem); the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford (UK); and Dumbarton Oaks (Washington DC).
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
Archaeology of Palestine in the New Testament Period; Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls; Ancient Synagogues; Excavating Josephus; Introduction to Early Judaism; A Comparative Historiography of the Israelite and Muslim Conquests of Palestine.
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Co-authored (primary author) with D. Schindler, “Pottery and Settlement in Late Roman Galilee,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 374 (2015), pp. 191-207.
• 2016 “The Pottery,” in G. Davies and J. Magness, The 2003-2007 Excavations in the Late Roman Fort at Yotvata. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015, pp. 74-141.
• 2016 “The Byzantine Pottery from Building 300 at Horvat Kanaf,” in Z. U. Ma’oz, Horvat Kanaf, Excavations in 1978-1980 and 1985, Final Report. Qazrin: Archaostyle, 2015, pp. 155-178.
• 2016 J. P. Oleson and R. Schick. Humayma Excavation Project, 2: Nabatean Campground and Necropolis, Byzantine Churches, and Early Islamic Domestic Structures (Boston, MA: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2014); for the Journal of Near Eastern Studies 75.1 (2016), pp. 184-86.
• 2016 Co-authored with G. Davies, The 2003-2007 Excavations in the Late Roman Fort at Yotvata, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015.
• 2016 “Field Archaeology: Basically the Same,” Biblical Archaeology Review Special Issue: 40 Futures: Experts Predict What’s Next for Biblical Archaeology (2015), p. 16.
• 2016 Book Reviews:
• 2016 “Qumran,” E. Olin (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. New York: Routledge, 2016, pp. 793-94.
• 2016 “’They Shall See the Glory of the Lord’ (Isa 35:2): Eschatological Purity at Qumran and in Jesus’ Movement,” in M. Tiwald (ed.), Q in Context II, Social Setting and Archaeological Background of the Sayings Source. Bonn: V & R unipress, 2015, pp. 179-193.
• 2016 J. H. Charlesworth (ed.), The Tomb of Jesus and His Family? Exploring Ancient Jewish Tombs Near Jerusalem’s Walls (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013); for the Review of Biblical Literature at: http://www.bookreviews.org/BookDetail.asp?TitleId=9634 (9/9/2015).
• 2016 “Sweet Memory: Archaeological Evidence of Jesus in Jerusalem,” in K. Galinsky (ed.), Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity. New York: Oxford University, 2016, pp. 324-343.
• 2012 The Archaeology of the Holy Land from the Destruction of Solomon’s Temple to the Muslim Conquest (New York: Cambridge University, 2012)
• 2011 Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011)
• 2007 Co-authored with Guy D. Stiebel, “The Military Equipment from Masada,” in Masada VIII, The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963-1965, Final Reports (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2007), pp. 1-94.
• 2005 “Heaven on Earth: Helios and the Zodiac Cycle in Ancient Palestinian Synagogues,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 59 (2005), pp. 1-52.
• 2004 Debating Qumran: Collected Essays on Its Archaeology, Leuven: Peeters, 2004
• 2003 The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003
• 2002 The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002
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