Yuval Gadot – författare

Israel Finkelstein is perhaps the best-known Israeli archaeologist in the world. Renowned for his innovative and ground-breaking research, he has written and edited more than 20 books and published more than 300 academic papers. He has served as the director of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology and is the Jacob M. Alkow Professor of Archeology in the Bronze and Iron Age at Tel Aviv University. For the past two decades, he has been co-director of the Megiddo Expedition and is currently co-director of the Mission archéologique de Qiryat-Yéarim.His work has greatly changed the face of archaeological and historical research of the biblical period. His unique ability to see the comprehensive big picture and formulate a broad framework has inspired countless scholars to reexamine long-established paradigms. His trail-blazing work covering every period from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age through the Hasmonean period, while sometimes controversial, has led to a creative new approach that connects archaeology with history, the social sciences, and the natural and life sciences. Israel Finkelstein is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a correspondant étranger of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.Professor Finkelstein is the recipient of the prestigious 2005 Dan David Prize for his radical revision of the history of Israel in the 10th and 9th centuries BCE. In 2009, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2010 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne. He is a member of the selection committee of the Shanghai Archaeology Forum, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 2014, his book The Forgotten Kingdom was awarded the esteemed Prix Delalande-Guérineau by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris.This volume, dedicated to Professor Finkelstein’s accomplishments and contributions, features 36 articles written by his colleagues, friends, and students in honor of his decades of scholarship and leadership in the field of biblical archaeology.

This is part of a three-volume final report of the renewed excavations at Ramat Raḥel by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005−2010). It presents the finds from the Babylonian-Persian pit, one of the most dramatic find-spots at Ramat Raḥel. The pit yielded a rich assemblage of pottery vessels and yhwd, lion, and sixth-century “private” stamp impressions, including, for the first time, complete restored stamped jars, jars bearing two handles stamped with different yhwd impressions, and jars bearing both lion and “private” stamp impressions on their bodies. Residue analysis was conducted on many of the vessels excavated from the pit to analyze their contents, yielding surprising results. The finds contribute to our understanding of the pottery of the Babylonian and early Persian periods (6th−5th centuries BCE) and to the study of the development of the stamped-jar administration in the province of Yehud under Babylonian and Persian rule.Also available from Eisenbrauns: Ramat Raḥel III: Final Publication of Aharoni'’s Excavations at Ramat Raḥel (1954, 1959–1962) by Oded Lipschits, Yuval Gadot, and Liora Freud; and Ramat Raḥel IV: The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010): Stratigraphy and Architecture, by Oded Lipschits, Mandred Oeming, and Yuval Gadot.

This is the story of the landfill that operated in Jerusalem during the first century CE and served as its garbage dump during the ca. 50-year period that followed Jesus’s crucifixion through to the period that led to the great revolt of the Jews just prior to the city’s destruction.The book presents an extensive investigation of hundreds of thousands of items that were systematically excavated from the thick layers of landfill. It brings together experts who conducted in-depth studies of every sort of material discarded as refuse—ceramic, metal, glass, bone, wood, and more. This research presents an amazing and tantalizing picture of daily life in ancient Jerusalem, and how life was shaped and regulated by strict behavioral rules (halacha). The book also explores why garbage was collected in Jerusalem in so strict a manner and why the landfill operated for only about 50 years. Half a century of garbage from Early Roman–period Jerusalem provides an abundance of new data and new insights into the ideological choices and new religious concepts emerging and developing among those living in Jerusalem at this critical moment. It is an eye-opener for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and theologians, as well as for the general reader.

It is fitting that this Festschrift in honor of Andrea Berlin’s 70th birthday takes as its theme the alchemy she practices so well: transforming artifacts into history. Each contribution in this volume is, in its own way, a reflection of Berlin’s influence and a continuation of her approach. The authors–colleagues, students, and collaborators from across the world that Andrea has not only worked with but consistently supported and encouraged, forming close friendships—were challenged to take “mere artifacts” and tease out their historical significance, just as Berlin has done throughout her career. The resulting chapters span a wide array of topics that mirror the breadth of Berlin’s interests.

Die hier versammelten 20 Beiträge präsentieren in interdisziplinärer Kooperation die Resultate der in den letzten 20 Jahren durchgeführten Ausgrabungen im antiken Jerusalem und bieten eine durchgehende Rekonstruktion der Geschichte der Heiligen Stadt von ihren ersten Anfängen bis hin zur römischen Aelia Capitolina. Was an der biblischen Darstellung ist Historie, was Wunschdenken oder gar Mythos? Welche Bedeutung hat Jerusalem für das entstehende Judentum und Christentum? Führende Forscherinnen und Forscher lassen mit Hilfe modernster naturwissenschaftlicher Analysemethoden sowohl neue Fakten hervortreten als auch aktuelle Debatten über deren sachgemäße Auswertung.Mit Beiträgen von Reli Avisar, Doron Ben-Ami, Ulrich Berges, Elisabetta Boaretto, Efrat Bocher, Filip Čapek, Ortal Chalaf, Yuval Gadot, Axel Graupner†, Ido Koch, Tehillah Liebermann, Oded Lipschits, Hermut Löhr, Eugenia Mint, Manfred Oeming, Florian Oepping,, Johanna Regev, Lior Regev, Günter Röhser, Helena Roth, Yiftah Shalev, Nitsan Shalom, Harel Shochat, Avi Solomon, Abra Spiciarich, Guy D. Stiebel, Nahshon Szanton, Joe Usiel, Ayala Zilberstein.The 20 articles collected here present the results of the excavations carried out in ancient Jerusalem over the last 20 years in an interdisciplinary collaboration and offering a comprehensive reconstruction of the history of the Holy City from its earliest beginnings to the Roman Aelia Capitolina. Leading researchers use the latest scientific methods of analysis to bring to light both new facts and current debates about their proper interpretation. What in the biblical account is history, what is wishful thinking or even myth? What significance does Jerusalem have for the emerging Judaism and Christianity?With contributions from Reli Avisar, Doron Ben-Ami, Ulrich Berges, Elisabetta Boaretto, Efrat Bocher, Filip Čapek, Ortal Chalaf, Yuval Gadot, Axel Graupner†, Ido Koch, Tehillah Liebermann, Oded Lipschits, Hermut Löhr, Eugenia Mint, Manfred Oeming, Florian Oepping,, Johanna Regev, Lior Regev, Günter Röhser, Helena Roth, Yiftah Shalev, Nitsan Shalom, Harel Shochat, Avi Solomon, Abra Spiciarich, Guy D. Stiebel, Nahshon Szanton, Joe Usiel, Ayala Zilberstein.