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OFFICERS OF THE ALBRIGHT INSTITUTE

Chair: Sidnie White Crawford, University of NebraskaPresident: Sharon Herbert, University of Michigan

Vice-President: J.P. Dessel, University of TennesseeTreasurer: John Spencer, John Carroll University

Secretary: Susan Cohen, Montana State University

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Andrea Berlin, Boston UniversityElizabeth Bloch-Smith, St. Joseph’s University

Oded Borowski, Emory UniversityJoan Branham, Providence CollegeScott Bucking, DePaul University

Norma Dever, Tucson, AZWeston Fields, Kodiak, AK

Eugene Grant, New York, NYEdward L. Greenstein, Bar-Ilan University

John Jorgensen, Adamstown, MDW. Mark Lanier, Houston,TX

Peter Machinist, Harvard UniversityCarol Meyers, Duke University

David Rosenstein, Washington, DCLee Seeman, Great Neck, NYLydie Shufro, New York, NYDaniel Wolk, New York, NY

HONORARY TRUSTEES

Walter E. Aufrecht, Emeritus, University of LethbridgeVivian A. Bull, Madison, NJ

Edward F. Campbell, Scarborough, MEWilliam G. Dever, Emeritus, University of Arizona

Patty Gerstenblith, DePaul University College of LawNorma Kershaw, Mission Viejo, CA

George E. Mendenhall, Ann Arbor, MIEric M. Meyers, Duke University

Kevin O’Connell, Jesuit Provincial Office, Watertown, MAJoe D. Seger, Mississippi State UniversityLawrence E. Stager, Harvard UniversityJ. Edward Wright, University of Arizona

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MORE THAN A CENTURY OF SERVICE TO AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP

The W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem is the oldest American research center for Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Middle East. Founded in 1900 as the American School of Oriental Research (ASOR), it was renamed in 1970 after its most distinguished director, William Foxwell Albright. Today, the Albright is one of three separately incorporated institutes affiliated with ASOR, the others being in Amman and Nicosia. The Albright’s facility in Jerusalem was constructed in 1925, and includes a library, hostel, offices, storage rooms, kitchen, dining and common rooms, two family apartments, and the Director’s House. Parts of the facility were renovated in 1985, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2010 and major renovations were completed in the G. Ernest Wright Lab in 2008 and in the Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Hostel in 2009. Located 500 meters north of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, the Albright is near the École Biblique, the Kenyon Institute, the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology, Al-Quds University, the Hebrew Union College-Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Rockefeller Museum, the Israel Antiquities Authority, as well as the Spanish and Swedish institutes. This grouping of scholarly facilities represents one of the highest concentrations of human, bibliographic, and artifact resources in Ancient Near Eastern Studies.

For the past 116 years, Albright has provided students and scholars with an unparalleled international cultural environment and a unique program that spans the broad spectrum of Near Eastern Studies from prehistory to the Islamic Period. Each year, Albright Fellows, primarily from the United States, Canada, Europe, China, Israel, and Palestine exchange information and ideas with hundreds of other local and foreign researchers, including those from other countries in the eastern Mediterranean. Dedicated to the advancement of the study of the literature, history, and culture of the ancient Near East, including the disciplines of the Archaeology of the Levant and Biblical Studies, the Albright continues to be a major research center and to strive for excellence in scholarship.

Now, as in the past, the Albright Institute provides a wide range of programs and facilities for doctoral and post-doctoral research, as well as an information-sharing program and field work experience for more than 2,800 persons. These include an annual series of lectures, reports, workshops, symposia, field trips, social events, and support for 33 ASOR-affiliated and Albright-assisted excavation and publications projects. It also includes a publications program, an extensive research library, workshops, and living accommodations. The Albright Institute jointly sponsors with the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem the Tel Miqne-Ekron publications project. The Albright is now also engaged in The Jezreel Valley Regional Project, a long-term, multi-disciplinary survey and excavation project investigating the history of human activity in the Jezreel Valley from the Paleolithic through the Ottoman Period.

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THE ERNEST S. FRERICHS PROGRAM FOR ALBRIGHT FELLOWS

The program includes workshops, reports, lectures, symposia, appointees’ evenings with guest scholars, research institute visits, field trips, an internship program with the Hebrew University,and joint lectures with Institute of Archaeology of Al-Quds University and the University of the Holy Land.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

In the current academic year, the Albright awarded nearly $300,000 in grants and fellowships. This year, the Albright has 61 Fellows, including 29 with stipends and fee awards from the Institute and 32 Associate Senior, Post-Doctoral, and Research Fellows with funding from other sources. These include:

• Two Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professors• An Annual Professor• Three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships.• An Ernest S. Frerichs Fellowships.• Three Educational and Cultural Affairs Fellowship• Six Noble Group Fellowships.• A Glassman Holland Fellowships.• A George A. Barton Fellowships.• A Lydie T. Shufro Summer Research Fellowship• One Carol and Eric Meyers Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship• One Marcia and Oded Borowski Research Fellowship• Thirteen ECA administrative fee grants were awarded to Albright

Associate Fellows

The Albright Institute is pleased to announce a new fellowship accepting applications for 2015–2016, The Lydie T. Shufro Summer Research Fellowship, open to scholars of all nationalities.

All Albright fellowships are open to citizens and residents of the United States, except for the Noble Group Fellowships, which are open to Chinese scholars and students, and the Glassman Holland Research Fellowship for European scholars. The Gitin Distinguished Professorship, the George A. Barton, the Carol and Eric Meyers Doctoral Dissertation, and the Associate Fellowships are open to scholars of all nationalities.

For further information and application instructions see www.aiar.org/fellowships

THE SEAN W. DEVER MEMORIAL PRIZE

This is an annual award of $650 for the best published article or paper presented at a conference by a Ph.D. candidate in Syro-Palestinian or Biblical Archaeology. See the website for details..

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE

September 2015

Sept 2 (Wed)

Appointees’ Orientation and Planning Meeting for Resident Fellows

Sept 7 (Mon)

Institutional Visit. Library Orientation. École Biblique (P. Trzopek).

Sept 17 (Thu)

Workshop. Yael Rotem, Borowski Fellow (AIAR), “Tel Yaqush and Nahal Tabor Cemetery in the Early Bronze Age I-II: Narrative of a Village in the Central Jordan Valley at the Transition to Urban Life.”

October 2015

Oct. 1 (Thu)

AIAR Appointees’ Reception.

Oct. 8 (Thur)

Institutional Visit. Rockefeller Library (B. Brandl); Archives (A. Rochman-Halperin); and Museum (S. Wolff). .

Oct. 8 (Thu)

Associate Fellows Symposium

Oct. 13 (Tue)

Field Trip. City of David and Davidson Center (Yuval Gadot).

Oct. 13 (Tue)

Appointees’ Evening with Guest Scholar. Benjamin Z. Kedar, Professor Emeritus of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Oct. 21 (Wed)

Field Trip. Mount Zion Excavations. Shimon Gibson.

Oct. 21 (Wed)

Joint Albright & UHL Lecture Series. George Anthony Keddie, “Emerging Class Distinctions in Early Roman Judea: Between Pseudepigraphic Texts and Archaeology.” Rothberg Institute, Hebrew University.

Oct. 22 (Thu)

Workshop. George Anthony Keddie, Carol and Eric Meyers Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, AIAR, “The Archaeology of Inequality in Herodian Judaea: Socio-Economic, Political and Cultural Transformations.

Oct. 27 (Tue)

Workshop. Jennie Ebeling, Annual Professor, AIAR, “New Light on Jezreel: Results of the 2013-2015 Seasons.”

Oct. 28 (Wed)

Field Trip. Church of the Holy Sepulchre (L. Mahoney).

Oct. 29 (Thu)

Visit to the Albright by Archaeological Tours Israel group led by L. Feinstone (M.J. Adams).

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Nov.3 (Tue)(cont.)

Workshop. Ann Zimo, Educational and Cultural Affairs Fellow, AIAR, “The Landscapes of the Muslims in the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 13th Century.”

Nov. 11 (Wed)

Field Trip. Tel Azeka (H. Roth); Khirbet Qeiyafa (Y. Garfinel); Israel Antiquities Authority Storerooms (A. Lester).

Nov. 12 (Thu)

Workshop. Lisa Mahoney, CAORC Andrew W.Mellon Mediterranean Regional Research Fellow (AIAR and CAARI), “The Art of statecraft in the Latin Kingdom.”

Nov. 18-21 (Wed-Sat)

Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR). Presentations by Albright Appointees: M.J. Adams, “The Archaeology of Abandonment at EB I–II Megiddo”; M.J. Adams (with A.B. Prins, S. Steinke, Y. Tepper and S. Cohen), “Remote Sensing and Aerial Survey with a Heavy-Duty UAV in the Jezreel Valley, Israel”; M.J. Adams (with R. Homsher), “Ancient Landscapes of the Jezreel Valley: A Preliminary Report on Environmental Study”; J. Ebeling (with D. Rosenberg), “Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Basalt Vessel Industries at Hazor: Is There a Connection?”; J. Ebeling and Associate Fellow N. Franklin, “Exploring 7,000 Years of Settlement: The Jezreel Expedition, the First Four Years”; B. St. Laurent, “Capitalizing Jerusalem: Mu’awiya’s Urban Vision 638–680”; E. Darby, “Toward an Archaeology of Gender? Sex, Gender, and Differentiation in Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas”; H.D.D. Parker (with C. Rollston), “Teaching Epigraphy in the 21st Century: The Epigraphic Digital Lab”; Reuben and Edith Hecht Fellow S. Bechar, “The Late Bronze Age Administrative Palace at Tel Hazor”; X. Wu, “The Landscape of Bactria and the Achaemenid Persian Empire”; T. Blanton, “Discussant”; S. Pfann (with S. Cox), “A Multifaceted Approach toward the Imaging of Ancient Inscriptions”; David Ben-Shlomo, “Pottery Production in Iron Age Jerusalem”; L. Mazow and D. Cassuto, “Did Goliath Carry an Aegean Long Sword? On Reading Menor Orgim (Weaver’s Beam) as a Weaving Sword”; J. Chadwick, “The 54 cm Canaanite Cubit in Bronze Age Canaan and Iron Age Israel, Judah, and Philistia”; K. Cytryn-Silverman, “Tiberias: Apogee and Decline—the 10th- 11th Centuries”; N. Panitz-Cohen (with R. Mullins), “Results of the Third Season of Excavations at Abel Beth Maacah”; M. Kersel and Y. Rowan (with A. Hill), “New Survey in the Wadi Ashert, Israel”; M. Kersel, “The Salvage Exception and the Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean”; Y. Rowan and M. Kersel (with G. Rollefson, A. Wasse, and A. Hill), “Excavation and Survey in the Wadi al-Qattafi, Jordan: Results of the 2015 Season”; S. Wolff, “R.A.S. Macalister: A Fresh Look After 100 Years”; S. Wolff (with S. Ortiz), “Excavations at Tel Gezer: An Update on the Last Three Seasons”; S. Wolff (with C. Wilson, B. Stachowski and S. Ortiz), “An Iron IIB Elite Four-Room House at Gezer: Finds, Function, and Comparanda.”

Nov 18 (Wed)

Joint Albright & UHL Lecture Series. Aaron Greener, Ernest J. Frerichs Fellow, AIAR, “Ground Stones in Metallurgical Contexts: Towards a Definition of Ancient Smelters’ Tool Kit.” Rothberg Institute, Hebrew University.

Nov. 25 (Wed)

Joint Albright & UHL Lecture Series. Jennie Ebeling, “Household Archaeology and Food Production in the Iron Age.” Rothberg Institute, Hebrew University.

Nov. 26 (Thu)

AIAR Appointees’ Thanksgiving Celebration for Albright Fellows and Associate Fellows. Hosted by AIAR Annual Professor Jennie Ebeling.

November 2015

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE

December 2015

Nov 30-Dec 1 (Mon-Tue)

Field Trip. Jezreel Valley and Crusader Sites in the North:Legio/Megiddo (M.J. Adams); Jezreel (J. Ebeling); Montfort (R. Lewis); Akko (E. Stern).

Dec 10 (Thu)

AIAR Appointees’ Group Photo (1 of 2).

Dec 10 (Thu)

Lecture. Jeffrey Chadwick, Jerusalem Center Professor of Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies at Brigham Young University, “New Discoveries in Ancient Metrics: The 54 CM Canaanite Cubit During the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Land of Israel.”

Dec 15 (Tue)

Evening with Guest Scholar. Fabrizio Benente, University of Genoa; Scientific Director of the Archaeological and City Museum of Sestri Levante; Archeominerary Museum of Castiglione Chiavarese.

Dec 16 (Wed)

Field Trip. Tell es-Safi/Gath (A. Maeir); Maresha/Beit Guvrin (I. Stern). .

Dec 16 (Wed)

Joint Albright & UHL Lecture Series. Shlomit Bechar, Reuben and Edith Hecht Fellow (AIAR), “The Renewed Excavations at Tel Hazor: 26 Seasons of Archaeological Discoveries.” Rothberg Institute, Hebrew University.

Dec 22 (Tue)

Lecture. Hani Nur el-Din, Al-Quds University, “Back to Samaria: Approaching the Archaeology of the Site.”

Dec 23 (Wed)

Joint Albright & UHL Lecture Series. Jeremy Pearson, “William of Tripoli and his Eastern Context: Reconsidering Muslim-Christian Relations in the Crusader Levant.” Rothberg Institute, Hebrew University.

Dec 25 (Fri)

AIAR Residents Christmas Dinner

January 2016

Jan 7 (Thu)

Workshop. Jeremy Pearson, Educational and Cultural Affairs Fellow (AIAR), “A Grudging Acceptance: Reconsidering Muslim-Jewish-Christian Relations in the Crusader States.”

Jan 14 (Thu)

Workshop. Ron Shimelmitz, “Commoditization and Fragmented Solidarity in the Late-Prehistoric Communities of the Near Eas t.”

Jan 17 (Sun)

AIAR Appointees’ Orientation & Planning Meeting for Residents.

Jan 20 (Wed)

Joint Albright & UHL Lecture Series. Paul Flesher, “The Multimedia Character of Worship in Galilee’s Mosaic-floored Synagogues of the Late Roman Period.” Rothberg Institute, Hebrew University.

Jan 21 (Thu)

Workshop. Timothy B. Sailors, Educational and Cultural Affairs Fellow), “Early Christian Literature Preserved in Languages of the Christian Near East.”

Jan 27 (Wed)

Field Trip. Bible Lands Museum (F. Vukosavovic).

Jan 28 (Thu)

Workshop. Yotam Tepper, “The Excavation at the Roman Legionary Base at Legio: Preliminary Results of the 2013 and 2015 Seasons.”

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Feb 8 (Mon)

Institutional Visit. Rockefeller Library (B. Brandl); Archives (A. Rochman-Halperin) and Museum (S. Wolff).

Feb 10 (Wed)

Field Trip. Hatzeva (E. Darby & T. Gini); Arad (E. Darby).

Feb 11 (Thu)

Workshop. Xiaowen Shi, Noble Group (AIAR), “Villages in Middle Bronze Anatolia.”

Feb 17 (Wed)

Field Trip. Tiberias (K. Cytryn & Sh. Miller). Beth Shean (B. Arubas).

Feb 18 (Thu)

Workshop. Paul Flesher, Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor, “Mosaics and Palestinian Targums: Torah, Temple and Sacrifice in the Synagogues of Sepphoris and Beth Alpha.”

Feb 24 (Wed)

Field Trip. Appolonia (O. Tal); Caesarea (P. Gendelman); Tel Dor (B. Martin).

Feb 23 (Tue)

Appointees’ Evening with Guest Scholar.

Mar 1 (Tue)

Institutional Visit. Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (I. Sharon & E. Hovers).

Mar 2 (Wed)

Field Trip. Israel Museum (H. Gittler).

Mar 3 (Thu)

Workshop. S. Rebecca Martin, National Endowment for the Humanities (AIAR), “Final Report of Tel Dor Areas D1-D4.”

Mar 10 (Thu)

Workshop. Morag Kersel, DePaul University, “Looting Lessons. People, Pots, and Planes at the Dead Sea, Jordan.”

Mar 16 (Wed)

Field Trip. Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University; Eretz Israel Museum;Tell Qasile.

Mar 17 (Thu)

Workshop. Wu Xin, Noble Group (AIAR), “Manuscript of a Monograph: Kyzyltepa and Life on the Frontier of the Achaemenid Empire.”

Mar 18-27 (Fri-Mon)

Field Trip Abroad. Egypt (M.J. Adams).

Mar 22 (Tue)

Appointees’ Evening with Guest Scholar.

Mar 30 (Wed)

Field Trip. Old City. Haram Al-Sharif (B. St. Laurence); Church of the Holy Sepulchre (A. Angeloni).”

Mar 31 (Thu)

Workshop. Aaron Koller, National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow (AIAR), “P. Amherst 63 and Middle Aramaic.”

March 2016

February 2016

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Apr 5 (Tue)

Field Trip. Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem (H. Geva).

Apr 7 (Thu)

Workshop. Yongsheng Chen, Noble Group Fellow (AIAR), “A Comparative Study between Ancient Chinese Writing and Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Words’ Recording Method Perspective.”

Apr 13 (Wed)

Field Trip. City of David (J. Uziel) and Davidson Center (R. Reich).

Apr 14 (Thu)

Associate Fellows Symposium.

Apr 21 (Thu)

Workshop. Erin Darby, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (AIAR), “Ëin Hazeva at the Crossroads: An Iron Age Fort on the Edge of Empire.”

May 2 (Tue)

Appointees’ Evening with Guest Scholar. Stephen Bourke, University of Sydney..

May 5 (Thu)

Workshop. Lihong Song, Noble Group Fellow (AIAR), “Mosaics in the Synagogues of Ancient Palestine.”

May 9-10 (Tue-Wed)

Field Trip. Sepphoris, Magdala, Beit Alpha, Tiberias Baths, Capernaum, Qanatir (P. Flesher); Hazor (Sh. Bechar); Bet Shearim (R. Aviassaf).

May 13 (Fri)

Shawarmafest.

May 18 (Wed)

Field Trip. Western Wall Tunnels (D. Bahat).

May 19 (Thu)

Workshop. Beatrice St. Laurent, Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor (AIAR), “Mu’awiya’s Jerusalem 638-680 CE.”

May 19 (Thu)

Appointees’ Group Photo (2 of 2).

May 26 (Thu)

Workshop. Alessandra Angeloni, Glassman Holland Research Fellow (AIAR), “Interpretation of Wall Stratigraphy for the Analysis of the Archaeological Context of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.”

Jun 2 (Thu)

Workshop. Shoufu Jin, Noble Group Fellow (AIAR), “The Art of Hearing in Ancient Egypt.”

July 4 (Mon)

Fourth of July Barbecue for American Excavators and Friends.

May 2016

June 2016

April 2016

July 2016

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ASOR-AFFILIATED / AIAR-ASSISTED EXCAVATION, SURVEY, AND PUBLICATIONS PROJECTS

Tel Abel Beth Maacah Excavations, Azusa Pacific University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Directors: R. Mullins and N. Panitz-Cohenhttp://www.abel-beth-maacah.org/

Tel Akko Total Archaeology Project and Field School, The Pennsylvania State University, A. Killebrewhttp://www.archaeological.org/fieldwork/afob/3473

The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, Harvard Semitic Museum, Directors: L.E. Stager and D. Masterhttp://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/ashkelon/explore/expedition.html

Joint Expedition to Tell Balata/Shechem, Drew-McCormick, Director: E. Campbell

Caesarea Maritima Promontory Palace Excavations, University of Pennsylvania Museum/ Cornell University, Directors: K.L. Gleason and B. Burrellhttp://www.caesarea.landscape.cornell.edu/

Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima, Drew University, Director: V. Bull

Tel Gezer Excavation and Publication Project, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Directors: S. Ortiz and S. Wolffhttp://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=17&sub_subj_id=506

Gezer Gateway Project, University of Toronto, Director: J.S. Holladayhttp://www.archaeology.utoronto.ca/gezer-gates.html

Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Hesi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tell el-Hesi Board, Director: J.A. Blakelyhttp://www.hesiproject.org/

Tell el-Hesi Regional Survey: Khirbet Summeily Excavations, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Directors: J.A. Blakely and J.W. Hardin http://www.hesiproject.org/

Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project, University of California Los Angeles and Israel Antiquities Authority, Directors: A. Burke and M. Peilstockerhttp://www.nelc.ucla.edu/jaffa/

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The Jezreel Expedition, University of Evansville and the University of Haifa, Directors: J. Ebeling and N. Franklinhttp://jezreel-expedition.com/

Jezreel Valley Regional Project, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Director: M.J. Adamshttp://www.jezreelvalleyregionalproject.com/

Tel Kabri, George Washington University and Tel Aviv University, Directors: E. Cline and A. Yasur-Landauhttp://digkabri2015.wordpress.com/

Tel Kedesh, University of Michigan and Boston University, Directors: S. Herbert and A. Berlinhttp://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/excavations_at_tel_kedesh_israel

The Fourth Expedition to Lachish, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Southern Adventist University, Directors: Y. Garfinkel, M.G. Hasel, and M.G. Klingbeilhttp://www1.southern.edu/lachish/

Lahav Research Project, Phases I–II, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University, Director: J.D. Segerhttp://timfrankarchaeology.wordpress.com/lahav-research-project/

Lahav Research Project, Phase III, Mississippi State University, Director: P. Jacobs

Lahav Research Project, Phase IV, Emory University, Director: O. Borowski

Tel Miqne-Ekron, W.F. Albright Institute and The Hebrew University, Directors: T. Dothan and S. Gitin

Marj Rabba (Har ha-Sha’avi, west), University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, Directors: Y. Rowan and Morag Kerselhttp://galileeprehistoryproject.org/marj-rabba/

ASOR-AFFILIATED / AIAR-ASSISTED EXCAVATION, SURVEY, AND PUBLICATIONS PROJECTS

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The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 7th Century BC: A Study of the Interactions Between Center and Periphery, W.F. Albright Institute and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Director: S. Gitin

Khirbet Qana, Centre College, Director T. McCollough

Joint Sepphoris Project, Duke University, Directors: E.M. Meyers, C. Meyers, and J.P. Dessel

Sepphoris Regional Project, Duke University, Directors: E.M. Meyers, C. Meyers, and B. Gordon

Sepphoris, University of South Florida, Directors: J. Strange and T. McCollough

Shikhin Excavations, Samford University, Kentucky Christian University and the Kinneret Academic College, Directors: J.R. Strange, David Fiensy, and Mordechai Aviam. http://www.samford.edu/shikhin/

Tel Regev – The Southern Plain of Akko Project, St. Louis University, Madrid campus/University of Haifa, Directors: C. Aznar, S. Yanklevitz, M. Artzy

Tell er Ras on Mount Gerizim, Drew University, Director: V. Bull

Tell Taanach, Birzeit University, American Schools of Oriental Research, and Concordia Seminary, Directors: H. Salem and N. Lapp

Tell el-Wawiyat Excavations Project, University of Arizona, Directors: J.P. Dessel and B. Alpert Nakhaihttp://wawiyat.web.arizona.edu/history.htm

Yotvata Roman Fort Project, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Florida International University, Directors: J. Magness and G. Davies

The Zeitah Excavations, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Director: R.E. Tappyhttp://www.zeitah.net/

ASOR-AFFILIATED / AIAR-ASSISTED EXCAVATION, SURVEY, AND PUBLICATIONS PROJECTS

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ASSOCIATE FELLOWS AND RESEARCH PROJECTS 2015–2016

Senior Fellows

Marwan Abu Khalaf, Al-Quds University, “The Material Culture of Khirbet Shuwaykeh”

Rodney Aist, St. George’s College, Jerusalem, “From Topography to Text: The Image of Jerusalem in the writings of Adomnán and Bede”

Isam Awwad, Independent Researcher, “Al-Haram Al-Sharrif in the Early Ummayad Period”

David Ben-Shlomo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Tel Hebron: New Excavations, “Pottery Production in Iron Age Jerusalem”; and “Tel Miqne Iron I Pottery from Field III Small Finds from Tel Miqne-Ekron”

Miryam Brand, Independent Researcher, “Communal Identity in the Second Temple Period: Sin, Consequences, and the ‘Other’”

Eliot Braun, Independent Researcher, “Early Bronze Age Pottery from Tel Erani: Local, Imported Egyptian and Hybrid Types”; Early Bronze Age I of the Southern Levant: Periodization”; “The Transition from Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I in the Southern Levant”

Jeffrey Chadwick, Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center, “The 54 CM Cubit in Canaan, Philistia, Israel, and Judah during the Bronze and Iron Ages”

Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “The Ancient City Centre of Tiberias - from Roman to Ayyubid times: the Islamization of a Classical City”

Gerald Finkielszteijn, Israel Antiquities Authority, “The Hellenistic Amphora Stamps from the 1931-1933, 1935 Excavations in Samaria-Sebaste”

Norma Franklin, University of Haifa, “The Excavation and History of Tel Jezreel”

Shimon Gibson, University of the Holy Land, Jerusalem, “The Building Program of Constantine I in the Holy Land”

Morag Kersel, DePaul University, “License to Sell: The Trade in Holy Land Antiquities”

Ann Killebrew, The Pennsylvania State University, “The Late Bronze and Iron I Periods at Tel Miqne-Ekron”

Sean Kirkland, DePaul University, “Aristotle and Tragic Temporality”

Laura Mazow, East Carolina University, “On Reconstructing Textile

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ASSOCIATE FELLOWS AND RESEARCH PROJECTS 2015–2016

Technologies, Technological Style and the Transfer of Technological Knowledge”

Ianir Milevski, Israel Antiquities Authority, “Society and art in the Protohistoric Periods of the Southern levant”.

Pierre de Miroschedji, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), “Tel Yarmuth excavations in the Lower City (Early Bronze Age)”

Kerry Muhlestein, Brigham Young University, “Demographics of Burials in Roman Egypt”

Hani Nur el-Din, Al-Quds University, “Archaeology of Samaria”

Nava Panitz-Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Excavation at Tel Abel Beth Maacah in Iron Age I and the Beginning of Aramean and Phoenician Influence in the Upper Galilee”

Glenn A. Peers, University of Texas at Austin, “Spaces of Ritual and Prayer: Late-Antique Palestinian Sites of World Making”

Stephen Pfann, University of the Holy Land, Jerusalem, “Cryptography in Antiquity and in the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Stephen Rosenberg, Independent Researcher, “Did Samuel Write the Exodus?”; “Roots of Anti-Semitism”

Yorke Rowan, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, “New Data on the Chalcolithic Period: Marj Rabba and the Galilee Prehistory Project”; “Eastern Badia Archaeological Project, Jordan.”

Benjamin Saidel, East Carolina University, “Ethnohistorical Perspectives on Bedouin Agriculture in the Northern Negev”

Yuri Stoyanov, University of London, “Medieval Christian and Islamic Heterodoxies in the Levant - Syncretistic Aspects of their Archaeological and Manuscript Legacy”

Hamdan Taha, Palestinian Department of Antiquities, Ramallah, “A Middle Bronze Age Tomb at Samoua”

Dieter Vieweger, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem, “Gadara Regional Project: Excavation of the 5000-Year History of Tall Zira‘a and Exploration of the Wadi el-‘Arab in Northern Jordan”; “Mt. Zion Excavation in the Anglican-Prussian Cemetery”;

Anna de Vincenz, Independent Researcher, “Pottery and Communities: A Look at Communities in Ottoman-Period Palestine, As Seen Through Their Pottery”

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Samuel R. Wolff, Israel Antiquities Authority, “Renewed Excavations at Tel Gezer”

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Margaret E. Cohen, The Jezreel Valley Regional Project, “The Iron IIA Figurines from a Cultic Area at Tel Megiddo”

Amir Golani, Israel Antiquities Authority, “Publication of Recent Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Sites of Eshta’ol. Tel Beth Yerah and Tel Qishyon Under the Auspices of the IAA”; “Circular Storage Structures in the Southern Levant and the Initial Stages of Urbanization”; “Report on Excavations at the Middle Bronze Age Site of Muntar el-Abiad in the Beth Shean Valley”.

Rona Avissar Lewis, Independent Researcher, “Household Archaeology and Children in the Iron Age”

Rafael (Rafi) Lewis, University of Haifa, “The Landscape of Montfort: A Crusader Castle in Archaeological and Environmental Context”

Issa Sarie, Al-Quds University, “Khirbet Al-Karmil Excavation and Rehabilitation Project in South of Hebron””

Research Fellows

Rachel Ben Dov, Independent Researcher, “Tel Miqne-Ekron during the Late Bronze Age”

Baruch Brandl, Israel Antiquities Authority, “An Analysis of Egyptian Artifacts from Tel Miqne-Ekron/Pre-Hellenistic Glyptics from Tel Kedesh”

Deborah R. Cassuto, Bar Ilan University, “The Fabric of Society: Textile Production in the Southern Levant”

Malka Hershkovitz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “A Corpus of Hellenistic–Roman Glyptics in Eretz-Israel”

Shulamit Miller, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Luxury, Prestige and Grandeur: the Mansions and Daily Life of the Social Elite of Judaea-Palestine during the 1st-6th c. C.E.”

Ghassan Nagagreh, Independent Researcher, “Iron Age (1200-1000 B.C) Settlement Patterns in the Highlands of Palestine”

Claire Pfann, University of the Holy Land, Jerusalem, “Marginalization vs. Marginal Notes: Just How Did the Apostle Paul Really Feel about Women?”

Abeer Zayyad, Islamic Museum, al-Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem, “Byzantine Jerusalem”

ASSOCIATE FELLOWS AND RESEARCH PROJECTS 2015–2016

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APPOINTEES AND RESEARCH PROJECTS 2015–2016

Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor:Paul Flesher, University of Wyoming, “Mosaics and Palestinian Targums: Torah, Temple and Sacrifice in the Synagogues of Sepphoris and Beth Alpha.”

Beatrice St. Laurent, Bridgewater State University, “Mu’awiya’s Jerusalem 638-680 CE.”

Annual Professor:Jennie Ebeling, University of Evansville, “New Light on Jezreel, Analysis and Publication of the 2012-2015 Seasons.”

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows:Erin Darby, University of Tennessee, “Ein Hazeva at the Crossroads: An Iron Age Fort on the Edge of Empire.”

Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University, “P. Amherst 63 and Middle Aramaic.”

S. Rebecca Martin, Boston University, “Final Report of Tel Dor Areas D1-D4.”

Ernest S. Frerichs Fellow/Program Coordinator:Aaron Greener, Bar-Ilan University, “Function, Typology, and Symbolism of the Ground Stone Tools from the Arabah Copper Production Sites.”

Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Fellows:Ann Zimo, University of Minnesota, “The Landscapes of Muslims in the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 13th Century.”

Timothy B. Sailors, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, “Early Christian Literature Preserved in Languages of the Christian Near East.”

Jeremy Pearson, University of Tennessee, “A Grudging Acceptance: Reconsidering Muslim-Jewish-Christian Relations in the Crusader States.”

George A. Barton Fellow:Heather Parker, Johns Hopkins University, “The Palaeography of the Alphabet Scripts of the Levant in the First Half of the First Millennium B.C.E.”

Lydie T. Shufro Summer Research Fellow:P. Kyle McCarter, Johns Hopkins University, “Collation and Imaging of Iron Age Inscriptions.”

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Carol and Eric Meyers Doctoral Dissertation Fellow:George Anthony Keddie, The University of Texas at Austin, “The Archaeology of Inequality in Herodian Judaea: Socio-Economic, Political and Cultural Transformations.”

Marcia and Oded Borowski Research Fellow:Yael Rotem, Tel Aviv University, “Tel Yaqush and the Nahal Tabor Cemetery in the Early Bronze Age I-II: The Narrative of a Village in the Central Jordan Valley at the Transition to Urban Life.”

Reuben and Edith Hecht Fellow:Shlomit Bechar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “The Transition from the Middle Bronze Age to the Late Bronze Age in Northern Israel.”

Glassman Holland Research Fellow:Alessandra Angeloni, Università degli Studi di Firenze, “Interpretation of Wall Stratigraphy for the Analysis of the Archaeological Context of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.”

Noble Group Fellows:Haifeng Li, Southwest University, Chongqing, “The Economic Activities for the Movable Property in the Old Babylonian Period.”

Xiaowen Shi, Independent Scholar, “Villages in Middle Bronze Anatolia.”

Wu Xin, University of Pennsylvania, “Manuscript of a Monograph: Kyzyltepa and Life on the Frontier of the Achaemenid Empire.”

Yongsheng Chen, Ocean University of China/Brown University, “A Comparative Study between Ancient Chinese Writing and Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Words’ Recording Method Perspective.”

Lihong Song, Nanjing University, “Mosaics in the Synagogues of Ancient Palestine.”

Shoufu Jin, Capital Normal University, “The Art of Hearing in ancient Egypt.”

CAORC Andrew W. Mellon Mediterranean Regional Research Fellowship (AIAR and CAARI):

Lisa Mahoney, DePaul University, “The Art of Statecraft in the Latin Kingdom.”

The William G. Dever Archaeological Fellowship for Biblical Scholars:Tom Blanton, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, “The Roles of

Mercantile Exchange, Reciprocity, and Redistribution in Early Christian Assemblies.”

NEWS FROM THE ALBRIGHT

Many thanks to the anonymous donors that have allowed us to make great strides in services offered. We are grateful to all who have helped us tackle our list of needs and projects (and our list is long). If you would like to contribute, please visit our online store at http://store.aiar.org/collections/contributions.

Albright Contracts with Ex Libris for New Alma Integrated Library System (ILS)

Director Matthew J. Adams has declared this “The Year of the Library” at the Albright; our library’s electronic facilities will be upgraded completely over the course of the next few months. We will be implementing Alma, a new cutting-edge, cloud-based SAAS system developed by the Ex Libris Group, the top global leader in library technology. Thanks to an anonymous donor and the generous terms offered by ExLibris, the Albright will have the most sophisticated library systems available, providing unparalleled tools and content to Albright fellows and patrons.All who use our facilities can look forward to the prospect of greater accessibility and broader utility.

Plans Underway for On-Site Outdoor Archaeology LabIn a bid to better utilize the Albright’s ample grounds, preliminary work began in the summer of 2015 on an outdoor archaeological laboratory on the former tennis court, at the eastern edge of the property. In light of our aim to continually improve the experience of the Albright’s Fellows and scholars, and the demand for space for processing large assemblages of archaeological material from excavations, the lab will feature a work area sheltered from sun and rain, electricity, water and wifi.The containers have already been moved to the earmarked space, thanks to Facilities Manager Ashraf and his team. In the near future, the Albright will lease out space in the containers to address the demand for storage for excavation projects. A fundraising campaign to provide the roofing and other amenities will take place later this year, but contributions can already be made at the Albright’s online store.

INSTITUTE STAFF 2015–2016

Dorot Director: Matthew J. Adams

Department Heads

Nadia Bandak Finance and Residence ManagerSarah Fairman Communications DirectorHisham M’Farreh Chef and Kitchen ManagerAshraf Hanna Facilities ManagerSarah Sussman Head Librarian

Staff

Diana Steigler Systems LibrarianKate Masliansky LibrarianNawal (Ibtisam) Irsheid Kitchen StaffNuha Khalil Ibrahim Cleaning StaffLaila Mou’amar Cleaning StaffLutfi Mussa Facilities StaffFaiz Khalaf Gardener

Dorot Director and Professor of Archaeology Emeritus Seymour Gitin