FRIENDS OF ASOR WEBINARS
Something from the Time of Jesus? Tourists, Souvenirs, and Buying the Holy Land
Friends of ASOR present the next webinar in our monthly series on December 1, 2022, at 6:00 pm EDT, featuring Prof. Morag M. Kersel and moderated by Prof. Jennie Ebeling. This presentation shares insights into why people want to own Holy Land artifacts. Is the consumer a harmless character who spends their days sorting stamps, acquiring coins, buying a souvenir or a gift? Or the very opposite, a wily speculator investing in the past in order to increase their capital (cultural, economic, social, sensu Bourdieu)?
It is legal to buy and sell antiquities in the licensed market in Israel and for almost 20 years I have been interested in people buying things in that market. What they buy, why they buy, and what they do with antiquities from the Holy Land. While research demonstrates there is a direct link, particularly in the acquisition of Holy Land objects, innocent buyers have no reason to connect supply (the looting of archaeological sites) with demand (their purchase). In this webinar using data gathered from archaeological ethnographies, I examine the consumption of archaeological artifacts by tourists, the unintended consequences of such demand, and how we can create a more informed set of buyers in the legal antiquities market in Israel.
Join Prof. Kersel as she explores why people want to own Holy Land artifacts and the unintended consequences of this consumerism. The webinar will conclude with a live Q&A session moderated by Prof. Jennie Ebeling (University of Evansville).
Morag M. Kersel is an archaeologist who works in the Eastern Mediterranean Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age periods. Morag is an associate professor in the Anthropology Department at DePaul University. In addition to participating in archaeological excavations and surveys in Egypt, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Palestinian Authority areas, and Turkey, Morag is interested in the relationship between cultural heritage law, archaeological sites and objects, and local interaction. Basically, she is interested in how artifacts go from the ground to the consumer, the paths they take, the hands they pass through, and the places they end up.
She also works on the public display and interpretation of archaeological artifacts in institutional spaces. Currently, she is the co-director of the Galilee Prehistory Project and the Follow the Pots Project – tracing the movement of Early Bronze Age pots from the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan. Recently, she has become obsessed with Neolithic Masks and is a recipient of the Palestine Exploration Fund/W.F. Albright Institute Fellowship to support this obsession. She was 2021 ASOR Annual Meeting plenary speaker.
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2021-2022 Season
A World at War: Protecting Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict
Patty Gerstenblith (DePaul University), Lisa Ackerman (Columbus Citizens Foundation), Andrew Cohen (Government Professional and Cultural Heritage Expert) | May 12, 2022
Preserving Cultural Heritage in Hisban and Umm al-Jimal, Jordan
Øystein LaBianca (Andrews University), Elizabeth Osinga (Umm al-Jimal Archaeological Project), Darrell Rohl (Calvin University) | April 24, 2022
Back to the Field: Recent Discoveries & Summer Plans 2022
Lorenzo d’Alfonso (ISAW), Kathryn Grossman (NC State University), James R. Strange (Samford University) | April 3, 2022
Uncovering What is Nubian Beneath the Veneer of Egyptianness: Excavating the Archives
Debora Heard (University of Chicago) | March 20, 2022
Where Are They Now?: A Preview of 2022 ASOR-Affiliated Fieldwork Projects
Michael Given (University of Glasgow), Xenia-Paula Kyriakou (Florida Gulf Coast University), Stephen Batiuk (University of Toronto), Monique Roddy (Walla Walla University), Kent Bramlett (La Sierra University), Friedbert Ninow (La Sierra University), and Michael Hoff (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) | March 8, 2022
Excavations at Tel Gezer: A Personal Story
Sam Wolff (Tel Gezer Laboratory) | February 20, 2022
Tel Rehov: A Major Bronze and Iron Age City in the Jordan Valley
Amihai Mazar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Nava Panitz-Cohen ( Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Nota Kourou (Athens University), Naama Yahalom-Mack (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Robert Mullins (Azusa Pacific University) | February 10, 2022
The Not-So-Innocents Abroad: The Beginnings of American Biblical Archaeology
Rachel Hallote (Samford University) | January 20, 2022
Synagogues as Jesus Knew Them
James R. Strange (Samford University) | December 2, 2021
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City
Andrew Lawler | November 4, 2021
Jesus and Jerusalem on TV: How Do Bible Documentaries Get Made?
Robert Cargill (University of Iowa) | October 17, 2021
Digging the Divine?: Judahite Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of Israelite Religion
Erin Darby (University of Tennessee) | October 7, 2021
David, Solomon, and Rehoboam’s Kingdom—The Archaeological Evidence
Yosef Garfinkel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | September 19, 2021
From Standing Stones to Sacred Emptiness: Textual and Visual Portrayals of Israel’s God
Theodore Lewis (Johns Hopkins University) | August 29, 2021
2020-2021 Season
Making May Matter: Webinarathon to Endow Diversity
Multiple Speakers | May 21-23, 2021
Archaeogaming: Why Video Games Deserve Their Own Archaeology
Tine Rassalle (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Shannon Martino (Morton College), Matthew Winter (University of Arizona), Michael Zimmerman (Rhode Island) | April 18, 2021
How the Bible Became a Book
William Schniedewind (UCLA) | March 21, 2021
The Mysteries of Mithras in Caesarea: Exploring the Cult’s Rites and Remains
Jane DeRose Evans (Temple University), Alexandra Ratzlaff (Brandeis University) | March 11, 2021
Archaeology and the Hidden Religious Culture of Israelite Women
Carol Meyers (Duke University) | February 21, 2021
Meet the Directors—Fundraiser to Support ASOR’s Affiliated Overseas Research Centers
Matthew J. Adams (AIAR), Pearce Paul Creasman (ACOR), Lindy Crewe (CAARI) | February 11, 2021
Early Synagogues, Jesus, and Galilee—A Jewish Perspective
Eric Meyers (Duke University) | December 13, 2020
Home Sweet Home: Ancient Israelite Households in Context
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott (William Jessup University) | October 18, 2020
Priestesses in the Days of Solomon and Ahab
Susan Ackerman (Dartmouth College) | September 13, 2020
Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works
Eric H. Cline (The George Washington University) | August 9, 2020
Sharon Herbert is the Charles K. Williams II Distinguished University Professor of Classical Archaeology Emerita and Research Associate at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Formerly, she served as the chair of the Department of Classical Studies and Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology at Michigan, where she has enjoyed a remarkable career as a field archaeologist, teacher, and academic administrator since she joined the Michigan faculty in 1973. She is also the former Curator of Greek and Hellenistic Collections and Director Emerita (1997-2013) of the University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum.
Andrew (Andy) Vaughn became ASOR’s Executive Director in 2007. Prior to this appointment, Vaughn taught at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN from 1997–2007, where he was Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and later served as Chair of Department of Religion. His teaching and research interests include cultural heritage, history, archaeology, Semitic languages, and Israelite religion. He is a past recipient of the Mitchell Dahood Prize for Biblical Scholarship, and he was a Fulbright Fellow at Tel Aviv University from 1993–94. Since 2014, Vaughn has served as Co-Director of ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives and overseen major heritage projects in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, and (most recently) the Sahel (Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso).
Norma Franklin is a field archaeologist who is happiest with complex stratigraphy. Other interests include ancient building techniques, water systems, and technology — old and new. Her research has focused on the three key cities of the Northern Kingdom of Israel: Samaria, Megiddo and Jezreel. She took part in the previous expedition Jezreel in 1990, directed by David Ussishkin of Tel Aviv University. In 1992 she became a founding member of the Megiddo Expedition, and served as a field archaeologist, successively directing 4 of the excavation areas. She resigned in 2011 in order to launch the Jezreel Expedition. Norma is the co-director of the Jezreel Expedition and a Research Associate at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, Israel and an Associate Fellow of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.
Yoav Arbel received his B.A. in Archaeology and African Studies from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the UCLA, San Diego. He was a staff member in various large-scale projects at Gamla, Bet She’an, and Maresha and regional projects at the Negev. Arbel was also a member of staff in excavations in England, Germany, Turkey, Jordan and Tanzania. Many of the salvage excavations he directed with the Israel Antiquities Authority took place in and around Jaffa. Arbel’s focuses his research on Historical Archaeology, and most of his publications discuss Jaffa and Israel’s archaeology and history in the Ottoman period.
Shlomit Bechar is a post-doctoral fellow at The Haifa Center for Mediterranean History at the University of Haifa. She also conducts ongoing research at the Institute of Archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Shlomit received her M.A. in 2012 and Ph.D. in 2019, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been digging at Tel Hazor since 2007 and became co-director of the excavations in 2015. Her book, Political Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan, was published in 2022 by Eisenbrauns, and she is co-author of Hazor VII and is currently co-authoring Hazor VIII.
Katia Cytryn is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology and Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She specializes in Islamic Archaeology and Material Culture and teaches a variety of courses, from introductions to specialized seminars, dealing with her main areas of expertise: Umayyads, Mamluks, Mosque Architecture and road archaeology. While her research on Mamluks and road archaeology goes back to her doctoral thesis, her interest on the Umayyads and early Islamic mosque architecture deepened following her ongoing archaeological projects at Khirbat al-Minya and at Tiberias, both on the western side of the Sea of Galilee.
Meir Edrey is the Professional Director & Research Associate of the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer and Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Maritime Civilizations. Meir’s research focuses on the Phoenician Culture during the first millennium B.C.E. in the Orient and the Occident, dealing specifically with issues related to Phoenician terrestrial and maritime religion and cultic practices. His recent studies include different aspects of the material culture of Tel Kabri, Tel Achziv, and the underwater site of Shavei Zion. He is also the director of the Kh. es-Suwweida Excavation Project (GIF funded).
Michael Eisenberg is a senior researcher at The Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa. He does research in Cultural History, Historical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology and mainly Classical Period Archaeology. He is also the Director of the Hippos of the Decapolis Excavations Project. His other interests include military architecture, the art of fortifications, and siege warfare during the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
Adi Erlich is a researcher at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology and a senior lecturer in the departments of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Haifa. Her Ph.D. was published as a monograph, The Art of Hellenistic Palestine (Oxford 2009). She studies art and archaeology at sites in Israel from the fifth century B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E., with a focus on terracotta figurines. She is a member of the executive board of the Association for Coroplastic Studies (ACoSt) and is the director of the Beth She’arim excavations, a main Jewish town in Galilee in the Roman period.
Yuval Gadot is the head of the Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. Since 2013, he has directed Tel-Aviv University excavations in the ‘City of David’ and is co-directing the “Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition.” His research in Jerusalem covers the ancient urban city and an interdisciplinary study of its rural landscape. Gadot obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 from Tel-Aviv University. Gadot’s publications include The Bronze Age Cemetery at ‘Ara (2014), Ramat Rahel III – Final Publication of Yohanan Aharoni’s Excavations at Ramat-Raḥel (2016), and the co-editing of “Rethinking Israel,” an edited volume published in honor of Prof. Israel Finkelstein (2017).
Peter Gendelman is a senior archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority. Gendelman’s main research focus encompasses the area of Caesarea, a port city originally built by King Herod that served as an administrative center during the Roman Empire and the capital of a Byzantine province as well. Caesarea is considered one of the most impressive archaeological sites of Israel. As the head of excavations at Caesarea, Dr. Gendelman and his team have unearthed stunning finds like an altar dedicated to Augustus Caesar and a mother-of-pearl tablet bearing the inscription of a menorah. He also takes part in restoration and conservation efforts to preserve the area for tourists.
David Gurevich is an archaeologist as well as a former Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow in 2014-2015. With both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Haifa, Dr. Gurevich’s main academic focuses include the history and archaeology of Jerusalem and Temple Mount, particularly during the Second Temple period. He has given lectures covering more modern topics as well, including geo-politics and Israel’s role in our international world. He also founded the academic program “Ambassadors Online” through Haifa University which aims to prepare Israeli students to take part in international conversations. Along with his many academic accolades, Dr. Gurevich is a licensed tour guide in Israel.
Yakov Kalman is an agriculturalist and archaeologist who started his career in the early 1970’s surveying and excavating various sites in the Negev Highlands. In the early 1990’s, he spent four years in the Arava, excavating at Ein Hazeva for the Israel Antiquities Authority. He has worked at Masada and Jericho, and since 1997 has worked as field supervisor at Lower Herodium, and then on the mount’s eastern slope, where he helped exposed Herod’s tomb and private theatre. He has also worked as co-director and field supervisor at Horkania (Judean Desert), and at Bet Loya (Lachish area). He is currently an MA archaeology student at the Hebrew University.
Robert Kool is a senior Curator at the Coin Department with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). Some of his research interests include medieval and crusader coinages and seals, as well as both the monetary and economic developmental history of Jerusalem in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods. Through the study of coinages, Kool has identified many rare finds, including a 2,000 year old silver coin that may have been minted in the Temple of Jerusalem during the Great Jewish Revolt against the Romans in the Second Temple period.
Igor Kreimerman is a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research combines the use of geoarchaeology, experimental archaeology and traditional archaeological methods for the study of formation processes, especially construction and destruction, in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant. His areas of interest are the archaeology of the Bronze Age and Iron Age in Israel, ancient construction materials and techniques, architecture, urban planning, destruction by fire, the seam between archaeology and text-based disciplines. He currently serves as the director of the renewed excavations at Tel Beit Mirsim.
Zvi Lederman is a professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Lederman is also the director of excavations at Tel Beth-Shemesh, a unique border site ideal for the examination of trade, communication, and interaction between the different ethnic and cultural groups that interacted with one another during the Iron Age. As a border site, Tel Beth-Shemesh reveals much information about the interplay and conflict between the local people and the Philistines. Dr. Lederman has excavated several villages and cities within Tel Beth-Shemesh that indicate conflict and rivalry between different factions.
Shelley-Anne Peleg is a specialist on cultural heritage, conservation procedures of cultural built heritage (archeological sites and historical cities) with a focus on the Old City of Akko. She is fellow researcher and lecturer in the Department of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa, and a lecturer at Kinneret College. Her Ph.D. dissertation was based on 25 years of work at the Israel Antiquities Authority. During that time, she served as the Director of the International Conservation Center – Citta’ di Roma (situated in the Old City of Akko). She established national and international curricula and training programs in practical conservation and cultural heritage studies at Akko.
Issa Sarie Issa Sarie is a lecturer of anthropology and archaeology at the Institute of archaeology at Al Quds University. Sarie received his education from Birzeit University, Yarmouk University, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a fellow of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. He has lectured and worked in both the U.S. and in France. His research interest is broad and multidisciplinary in that it combines archaeology and anthropology. His main research focus is the impact of agriculture invention, animal husbandry, and domestication on human health status during the Natufian and Neolithic periods.
Katharina Schmidt recently accepted the post of the Director of the W.F. Albright Institute in Jerusalem in June 2022. From 2016 to 2022, she was the Director of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology (GPIA) in Amman, Jordan. She studied Near Eastern Archaeology, Assyriology, and Pre-and Proto History at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich (Ph.D. in 2016). Dr. Schmidt has done fieldwork throughout the Near East and Europe including Jordan, Syria, Turkey, and Germany. Since 2016, she has directed the Tall Zira´a excavation project (Jordan). She has curated a special public outreach exhibition in the Jordan National Museum and coordinated a cultural heritage project with UNESCO.
Guy Stiebel is a senior lecturer in Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Israel and leads the archaeological expedition to the World Heritage site of Masada. He earned his Ph.D. at UCL for the study of militaria in Roman Palestine. Stiebel has published extensively on military archaeology and history. The new discoveries at Masada, most notably those concerning the horticulture and viniculture of King Herod, were recognized by the Third Shanghai Archaeological Forum, being awarded one of the 10 World discoveries in Archaeology. Stiebel was recently nominated by Israel’s Minister of Culture as the Chair of the Israel Archaeological Council.
Katharina Streit is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, researching development and changes in material culture from the Middle to the Late Bronze Ages (Material Culture Project). She co-directs the Tel Lachish excavations with Felix Höflmayer and Ilan Sharon. Katharina has published extensively on chronological questions and radiocarbon dating from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages. Katharina began her studies at the University of Freiburg, received her undergraduate training at Oxford University, and finished her M.A. and Ph.D. studies at the Institute of Archaeology of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Aharon Tavger is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Aharon received his M.A. in 2012 from Bar-Ilan University, and his Ph.D. in 2019 from Ariel University. His research combines the use of historical-geography and archaeology, focusing mainly on the highlands of Ancient Israel and Judah during the Bronze and Iron Ages and the Persian period. Since 2016, he has served as a senior staff member in the archaeological expedition to Tel Burna, and currently serves as the lab director of the project. Aharon also as the director of the Heritage Center for the Study of the Kingdom of Israel at Ariel University.
Joe Uziel graduated with his Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University in 2008. He has since worked for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), excavating several areas in the City of David and the Western Wall Tunnels, uncovering a range of finds from the Middle Bronze Age through to the Mamluk period. Joe’s discoveries have inspired further research on the archaeology of Jerusalem, particularly relating to the Bronze and Iron Ages and Roman period. In January 2020, Joe was named head of the Dead Sea Scrolls Unit at the IAA. The Dead Sea Scroll Unit is dedicated to the conservation, curation, documentation, and research of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Sam Wolff received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1986. He was Field Supervisor and later Assistant Director at the 1985-1990 excavations at Ashkelon (Israel). In 1991, he began a 25-year career as a field archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). He has excavated at the Iron Age I site of Ein Hagit, the multi-period site of Tel Megadim, and the Iron Age II site at Tel Hamid, a satellite of Tel Gezer. He worked as Co-Director and photographer at the 2006-2017 excavations at Tel Gezer. Since retiring from the IAA in 2017, he has been managing the Tel Gezer laboratory.
Assaf Yasur-Landau is a professor in the Department of Maritime Civilizations at the University of Haifa, the director of the Laboratory for Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey, and a senior researcher at the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies. After attending Tel Aviv University for both his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, Dr. Yasur-Landau attended Harvard University to complete his post-doctoral research. As an archaeologist interested in the connections between the Aegean and the Levant during the Bronze Age, he is involved in several archaeological projects including codirecting both the excavations at Tel Kabri and the underwater excavations at the ancient port of Tel Dor.
Irit Ziffer is an archaeologist, art historian, and the former curator of the Ceramics and Nehushtan pavilions at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv. She received her Ph.D. in ancient Near Eastern art from Tel Aviv University, and was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2007-2008. Dr. Ziffer’s academic interests lie in the methods in which the ruling class utilized art and images for political purposes. She has also taught in the Department of Archaeology and ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University and took part in the Aphek-Antipatris excavations from 1976-1979 and 1981-1982.
Dr. Jack Green, also known as Dr. John D.M. Green, is the Jeffrey Horrell ‘75 and Rodney Rose Director and Chief Curator of the Miami University Art Museum within the College of Creative Arts (Oxford, Ohio). His interests include museum and cultural heritage studies, and the intersection of art and archaeology, and histories of archaeology and museums. Jack’s research focuses on ancient Jordan including the Tell es-Sa‘idiyeh Cemetery Publication Project (British Museum), following his Ph.D thesis (UCL, 2006) on the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age period at this site.
Dr. Kevin McGeough is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Geography & Environment at the University of Lethbridge where he holds a Board of Governor’s Research Chair in Archaeological Theory and Reception. The University of Lethbridge is likely the only university in the world in which biblical Hebrew is taught in a geography department. He has excavated in Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, and Canada and is a co-director of The University of Lethbridge-Royal Alberta Museum Excavations at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, in southern Alberta.
Brenda J. Baker is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Nubian Collections in the Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, at Arizona State University. She is Director of the ASU Bioarchaeology of Nubia Expedition (BONE), conducting fieldwork in a project area west of Abu Hamed, Sudan. As a bioarchaeologist, her research integrates archaeology and biological anthropology to investigate the lifeways of past people, their funerary practices, and evidence of disease they experienced. She has worked extensively in the U.S. and at Abydos, Egypt. She is also the bioarchaeologist for Princeton University’s project in Polis, Cyprus, where she is analyzing remains of people who were interred in and around two Late Antique to medieval basilicas. Dr. Baker is a founding co-editor of Bioarchaeology International and serves on the advisory board of the American-Sudanese Archaeological Research Center (AmSARC). She is a co-organizer (with Geoff Emberling) of the ASOR/AmSARC workshop, “Reintegrating Africa in the Ancient World.”