Migrations or Acculturations?
My research project focused on two problems in the broad context of ongoing studies of settlement history in Crete, which have only been preliminarily touched upon in the past by other […]
Who is Who in the Ur III Dynasty
Drehem is a small village situated seven kilometers south of Nippur, the religious center of Sumer and Akkad. The site was extensively looted in 1909-1910 and its clay tablets were brought […]
Biblical Monotheism and Translating the First Commandment in the Chinese Context
Archaeology plays a significant social scientific role in understanding the world of the Bible. During my tenure as a […]
Pagan Monotheism in the Early Islamic Period
Pagan Monotheism refers to a different (if not independent) type of monotheism than the so-called revealed or Abrahamic monotheism. It is not a spontaneous result of […]
Continuity & Discontinuity in the LB IIB/Iron I Transition
During the early 20th century, the transition between the Late Bronze IIB and Iron I was characterized as one of discontinuity, based primarily upon the biblical model […]
Desert Devotions
Imagine the desert. Imagine a place at once desolate and overrun with life, a place where one may only see the horizon for miles and then suddenly a town, a structure, or, perhaps a drawing etched on a rock. Imagine a place […]
Philistine Pottery in the Core and Periphery
The Philistines settled in the southern coastal plain of Israel, in the area that later came to be known as Philistia, in the first half of the 12th century BCE […]
Tel Miqne-Ekron during the Late Bronze Age
Fourteen seasons of excavation at Tel Miqne (1981 – 1996), under the direction of Professors Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin, uncovered a series of superimposed […]
Royal Assassination in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East: A Brief Synopsis
Royal assassinations were not particularly rare events in the ancient world. Indeed, within ancient […]
New Data on the Chalcolithic Period
Traditionally less scholarly attention has been focused on the southern Levantine 5th and early 4th millennia BCE (the Chalcolithic period, or the “Ghassulian” period after the type site of […]
Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals
During my stay, I continued to work on the preparation of critical editions and studies of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals. But I should preface my report on this work […]
European Steppe Nomads in the Military History of the Near East
During my residence at the Albright Institute as a Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor (January 2-April 8), I worked on my research project, “Eurasian Steppe Nomads in the Military History […]
Roast and Toast of Retiring Albright Director, Sy Gitin [Video]
At theASOR Annual Meeting, we gathered to celebrate the career of Sy Gitin. Sy became director of the Albright Institute (formerly) […]
Introduction to Archaeology and the New Testament (Mandarin Language)
There are currently few resources available in the Mandarin language for the study of the archaeology of Israel/Palestine as it relates […]
Travels Through Time: Imagining Migration in the Early Aegean
As a student, I had travelled and excavated in other parts of the Middle East (Jordan and Lebanon) before, but had never visited Israel […]