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Dr. James F. Strange, Professor

E-mail

strange@chuma.cas.usf.edu

Position and Institution

Professor of Religious Studies
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Current Excavation

Currently Director of the University of South Florida Excavations at Sepphoris

Specialties

Hellenistic to Late Arab period archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean
Biblical archaeology
Social archaeology
Theory of archaeology
Inferring religion from material culture

Former Excavations

Khirbet Shema, Meiron, Gush Halav, and Nabratein, all ancient synagogue sites in upper Galilee, Israel
Gezer
North Jerusalem Roman tombs (French Hill)
Qumran
Khirbet el-Kom near Hebron
Mount Gerezim

Other Information

I am also interested in the whole problem of fraud in archaeology.

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