SEAN W. DEVER MEMORIAL PRIZE 2010
The William F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem is pleased to announce the winner of the ninth annual competition for the Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize. This award offers $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.
This year’s winner is Jonathan S. Greer of The Pennsylvania State University. His paper is entitled “An Israelite Mizrāq at Tel Dan?” It was presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and has been accepted for publication in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
The Sean W. Dever Prize was established in 2001 by Mrs. Norma Dever and Professor William G. Dever, in memory of their son Sean.
Submitted by Carol Meyers and Beth Alpert Nakhai, Co-chairs, Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize Committee.