Megan Nutzman, Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine (Edinburgh University Press) 2022
2022
Carolina López Ruíz, Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean (Harvard University Press) 2022
2021
Geoffrey Khan, The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew (Open Book Publishers) 2020
2020
Theodore J. Lewis, The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion Through the Lens of Divinity (Oxford University Press) 2020
2019
Sidnie White Crawford, Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.) 2019
2018
Matthew J. Suriano, A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press) 2018
2017
Sara J. Milstein, Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature (Oxford University Press) 2016
2016
Mark Smith, Where the God Are, Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World (Yale University Press) 2016
2015
Eugene Ulrich, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible (Brill) 2015
2014
Nicholas Postgate, Bronze Age Bureaucracy: Writing and the Practice of Government in Assyria (Cambridge University Press) 2013
2013
Frederick J. Murphy, Apocalypticism in the Bible and Its World: A Comprehensive Introduction (Baker Academic) 2012
2012
James C. VanderKam, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.) 2012
2011
Christopher Rollston, Writing and Literacy in Ancient Israel: Epigraphic Evidence from the Iron Age (SBL Press) 2010
2010
Seth Sanders, The Invention of Hebrew (University of Illinois Press) 2009
2009
Ron E. Tappy and P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., Editors, Literate Culture and Tenth-Century Canaan, The Tel Zayit Abecedary in Context (Eisenbrauns)
2007
Bruce Lincoln, Religion, Empire and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib (The University of Chicago Press) 2007
2006
Gordon Hamilton, The Origins of the West Semitic Alphabet in Egyptian Scripts (Wipf and Stock Publishers) 2006
2005
Mark Smith, The Memoirs of God: History, Memory, and the Experience of the Divine (Fortress Press) 2004
2004
Ziony Zevit, The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches (Bloomsbury Academic) 2001
2003
Michael Homan, To Your Tents, O Israel! The Terminology, Function, Form, and Symbolism of Tents in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (Brill) 2002
2002
Ehud Netzer, Hasmonean and Herodian Palaces at Jericho, Volume 1: Stratigraphy and Architecture (Israel Exploration Society) 2001 & The Palaces of the Hasmoneans and Herod the Great (Israel Exploration Society) 2001
Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Oxford University Press) 2022
2022
Paul Collins, The Sumerians (Reaktion Books) 2021
2021
Max Price, Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East (Oxford University Press) 2020
2020
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr (Oxford University Press) 2020
2019
Kara Cooney,When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt (National Geographic) 2018
2018
Eric H. Cline,Three Stones Make a Wall (Princeton University Press) 2017
2017
Patrick E. McGovern,Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created (National Geographic Books) 2017
2016
Reinhard Pummer, The Samaritans, A Profile (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.) 2016
2015
Jacob L. Wright, David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory (Cambridge University Press) 2013
2014
Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press) 2014
James Osborne, The Syro-Anatolian City States: An Iron Age Culture (Oxford University Press) 2020
2022
Andrea De Giorgi and A. Asa Eger, Antioch: A History (Taylor & Francis) 2021
2021
Allison Mickel, Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor (University Press of Colorado) 2021
2020
Raphael Greenberg, The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700-1000 BCE (Cambridge University Press) 2019
2019
Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, and Yorke M. Rowan, The Social Archaeology of the Levant (Cambridge University Press) 2018
2018
James A. Fraser, Dolmens in the Levant (Routledge) 2018
2017
Glenn Schwartz, Rural Archaeology in Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia: Excavations at Tell al-Raqa’i (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) 2015
2016
Seymour Gitin (ed.), The Ancient Pottery of Israel and its Neighbors from the Iron Age through the Hellenistic Period (Israel Exploration Society) 2015
2015
A. Asa Eger, The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities (I.B. Tauris Publishers) 2014
2014
Benjamin W. Porter, Complex Communities: The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan (University of Arizona Press) 2013
2013
Phillip C. Edwards, Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan (Brill) 2013
2012
Oded Lipshitz & David Vanderhooft, The Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah (Penn State Press) 2011
2011
Aaron Burke, Martin Peilstöker & Aren Maeir, The History and Archaeology of Jaffa 1 (Cotsen Institute of Archaeoology Press) 2011
2010
Aharon Sasson, Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on Livestock Exploitation, Herd Management and Economic Strategies (Equinox Publishing) 2010
2009
Alan Simmons, The Neolithic Revolution in the Near East: Transforming the Human Landscape (University of Arizona Press) 2007
Rachel Banks, Cassandra DeGaglia, Amy Dixon, Kara Larson, and James Hardin, “The Spaces Between: Spatial Reconstruction of a Proposed Iron Age IIB”
2019
Christopher J. Davey, Luis R. Siddall, Carla A. Raymond, and Joseph J. Bevitt for “Hidden Text: Imaging and reading an ancient tablet in an envelope”
2018
Morag Kersel, Marly Prom, and Students in ANT256 (DePaul University) for “Where Are They Now? Following Pots into Archives, Educational Institutions, and Museum Vitrines”
2017
Rebecca Seifried and Chelsea A. M. Gardner for The Value of Travelers’ “Itineraries in Archaeological Research: A GIS Analysis of Pathways through the Mani Peninsula, Greece”
2016
Robert S. Homsher, Adam B. Prins, Melissa S. Cradic and Matthew J. Adams, for “New Dimensions in Digital Documentation: Tomb 50 of Megiddo”
2015
Petra Creamer (University of Pennsylvania) for “The Apotropaic Nature of Old Babylonian Terracotta Plaques”
2014
Blair Heidkamp, Gabrielle Borenstein, and Joyce Fountain for the poster “The Final Season: Marj Rabba 2014”
Student Paper Award
2025
Aaren (Zhengfang) Zhou, “Cooking Pots and Negotiating Identity: Material Culture and Adaptive Agency During the Egyptian Occupation of Beth She’an.”
2024
Nicole Constantine, “Materializing Ptolemaic Power: Ruler Cult and Festival in the Hellenistic Mediterranean”
2023
Morganne Ottobre, “Between Two Cultures: Translation and Multimodality in the Tell Fekheriyeh Inscription”
2022
Alia Fares, “Archaeology at Your Doorstep-Building Heritage Awareness on the Lebanon Mountain Trail and for Beirut’s Traumatized Youth.”
2021
Gretchen Emma Zoeller, “A Paleopathological Investigation of Amputation in Ancient Nubia”
2020
Noam Cohen, “How to Talk about Domestic Abuse in Old Babylonian”
