SEAN W. DEVER MEMORIAL PRIZE 2012
ELEVENTH ANNUAL SEAN W. DEVER MEMORIAL PRIZE 2012
The William F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem announces the
2012 Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize call for papers. This prize provides $650 for the
best published article or paper presented at a conference by a Ph.D. candidate in Syro-Palestinian or biblical archaeology. Authors may be of any nationality but the article or
paper must be in English. Co-written or co-presented pieces may be submitted if all the
authors or presenters are doctoral candidates; the prize, if awarded, will be divided
equally among authors/presenters.
All submissions must include the author’s academic affiliation, mailing and email address and phone number. Please indicate the department in which the author is enrolled and the expected date of graduation. Submission of conference papers must include the name of the conference and the date on which the paper was presented. Submission of published papers must include the full bibliographic citation.
Print submissions must be
received no later than December 31, 2011; electronic submissions will not be accepted.
The prize will be announced on Sean’s birthday, March 9, 2012.
Send six (6) print copies to:
Mr. Sam Cardillo
W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
P.O. Box 40151
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Email: cardillo@sas.upenn.edu
Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize Committee: Carol Meyers and Beth Alpert Nakhai, cochairs;
Aaron Brody, Seymour Gitin and Joe D. Seger, members; Norma Dever and J.
Edward Wright, ex-officio.
2011 Prize Recipient: Helen R. Jacobus of the University of Manchester. Her paper,
“4Q318: A Jewish Zodiac Calendar at Qumran,” was presented, under a slightly different
title, at a conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls at the University of Birmingham in 2007. It
has since been published in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Contexts, ed. C. Hempl
(Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 90; Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 365-95.
THE SEAN W. DEVER MEMORIAL PRIZE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2001 BY PROFESSOR WILLIAM G. DEVER AND MRS. NORMA DEVER, IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON SEAN.