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CURRICULUM VITAEOctober, 2016

Joe D. Seger

Director Emeritus, Cobb Institute of ArchaeologyMiddle Eastern Archaeologist

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures Mississippi State UniversityMississippi State, MS 39762

5717 N Camino del SolTucson,, AZ 85718

Telephone: (662) 312 7868e-mail [email protected]

HIGHER EDUCATIONEarned Degrees:

Th.D. Harvard University, 1965 (Archaeology, Near Eastern Languages and Literature, Old Testament History and Religion)

B.D. Eden Theological Seminary, 1960 (Old Testament, Philosophy of Religion)B.A. Elmhurst College, 1957 (History, Philosophy and Religion)

Doctoral Dissertation Title:“The Pottery of Palestine at the Close of the Middle Bronze Age: A Study of the MB II C

Ceramic Remains from Biblical Shechem and their Palestinian Correspondences.”

Academic and Professional Honors:Alumni Merit Award, Elmhurst College, 2007

(Recognition as a distinguished alumni for career accomplishments.) Richard J. Scheuer Medal, American Schools of Oriental Research, 2006

(Recognition for career service and professional contributions to the organization and discipline)Sower Award, Nebraska Committee for the Humanities, 1979

(Recognition for significant contribution to public understanding of the Humanities)Rockefeller Doctoral Fellow, 1963-64

Robert Pfeiffer Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University, 1962Graduate Honors Scholarship, Eden Theological Seminary, 1960

Language Facility:Read French, German, Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Greek

Speak (partial fluency) Modern Hebrew, Arabic

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY2015-present Director Emeritus Cobb Institute of Archaeology; Professor Emeritus of

Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State University

1988-2014 Director, Cobb Institute of Archaeology; Middle Eastern Archaeologist; Professor of Religion; Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State University.Middle Eastern Archaeological Research, Instruction in Archaeology, Religion and History

1987, fall Acting Head, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Mississippi State University.

1982-87 Middle Eastern Archaeologist, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religion, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University.

Middle Eastern Archaeological Research, Instruction in Archaeology, Religion and History.

1981-82 Instructor, Departments of Philosophy/Religion and Foreign Languages, University of Nebraska at Omaha.

1981-82 Archaeological Consultant, Ecologic, Archaeological and Environmental Services, Omaha, Nebraska.

1981-82 Executive Director, Omaha Children’s Museum. Oversight of Museum programs, exhibits, and fiscal management.

1977-81 Chairman, Humanities Program and Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska.

Administrative coordination and instruction in Western Humanities; Instruction in Biblical Studies and Archaeology.

1976-77 Visiting Professor of Art History and Biblical Archeology, College of Fine Arts, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska;

Instruction in Archaeology, Community outreach through lectureships, workshops, and exhibitions related to Biblical Archaeology as Scholar-in-Residence, Omaha Jewish Federation.

1975 Instructor, Religious Studies and Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton California.

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Employment History (continued)

1974-75 Visiting Museum Research Professor, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, California:

Research in archaeological collections and exhibit consultant, Skirball Museum. Instruction in Biblical Studies. Adjunct Instruction in Biblical Studies and Archaeology, University of Southern California.

1969-74 Archaeological Director, Hebrew Union College Biblical and Archaeological School, Jerusalem, Israel.

Director, Hebrew Union College, Gezer Excavations and Field School; Administrative Coordinator, Gezer Publications Staff;Coordinator, graduate and post-graduate studies orientation;Instruction in Biblical Archaeology.

1964-69 Associate Professor, Old Testament and Archaeology, and Curator, the Museum of Anthropology, The Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut:

Instruction in Palestinian and Near Eastern Archaeology, Old Testament History and Literature, Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature; Chairman, Council for Advanced Studies charged with oversight of all post-baccalaureate degree programs.Organizer/manager, museum exhibits and tour programs.

1962-63 Teaching Fellow, Old Testament Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Archaeological Field Research:

Organizer and Field Director: Lahav Research Project, Archaeological and Anthropological Investigations at Tell Halif, Kibbutz Lahav, Israel, 1975 - present.

Archaeological Consultant: Fort Omaha Archaeological Project, General Crook House, Omaha, Nebraska, September 1981.

Director, Hebrew Union College Excavations at Tell Gezer, Fall 1969, Spring 1970, all seasons 1972-1974.

Field Archaeologist (Core Staff): Hebrew Union College Excavations at Tell Gezer, Israel, 1966-1971.

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Professional Activities (continued -2)

Field Director: Drew-McCormick Expedition to Tell Balatah, 1969.

Staff: Drew-McCormick Archaeological Expedition to Tell Balatah (Shechem), Jordan, 1962, 1964, 1968.

Professional Offices and Consulting Activities

Member of the Management Committee, American Schools of Oriental Research (since 2006 –Committee dissolved February 2008)

Past -President, American Schools of Oriental Research (1996-2002, President 1994-2002)

Member, Board of Trustees and Executive Committee, American Schools of Oriental Research (since 1988)

Chair, Committee on Membership for American Schools of Oriental Research (2003 to 2005)

Member, Nominations Committee of American Schools of Oriental Research (2004 to 2008)

Member, Officer’s Nominating Committee of American Schools of Oriental Research (2008-present)

Past-President, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (1988- 1994) Member, Board of Trustees and Executive Committee, W. F. Albright Institute of

Archaeological Research (1982 -1996) Honorary Trustee, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (since 1996) Consultant: National Endowment for the Humanities (Research Division. Consultant: National Geographic Society Consultant: The Israel Science Foundation Grants Consultant: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Memberships in Professional Academic Societies

Life Member, American Schools of Oriental Research Member, Registry of Professional Archaeologists Member, American Schools of Oriental Research Southeastern

Regional Society


Professional Activities (continued -3)

Member, Archaeological Institute of America Member, Society for Field Archaeology Member, Society for American Archaeology Member, Society for Biblical Research Member, Israel Exploration Society Member, British School of Archaeology, Jerusalem Member, Mississippi Archaeological Association Member, Mississippi Association of Professional Archaeologists Member, Phi Kappa Phi

PUBLICATIONS (* = Referred Publications)

Books and Monographs:

*Lahav VII; Ethnoarchaeology in the Tell Halif Environs: Excavations in Site 1, Complex A, 1976–1979 by J. D. Seger and K. E. Seger, Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (In press 2015)

*Lahav VI: The Early Bronze III to Late Arabic Strata at Tell Halif: Excavations in Field I, 1976–1979 by P. F. Jacobs and J. D. Seger, Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (In press 2015)

*Lahav V: The Iron, Persian and Hellenistic Occupations Within the Walls at Tell Halif: Excavations in Field II, 1977-1980 by Dan P. Cole. Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015. Xvii + 267 pp.; 27 figs.; 51 photos; 24 plates; 19 plans and sections.

* Lahav IV: The Figurines of Tell Halif by Paul F. Jacobs: Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015. Xviii + 88 pp.; 66 figs. And photos; 5 tables; CD database.

*Lahav III: The Iron Age Cemetery at Tell Halif (Site 72) by Oded Borowski. Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013. Xi +111 pp.; 66 figs; 12 tables; 16 plates.

* Gezer VI: The Objects from Phases I and II (1964–1974) by Garth GilmourEds. Joe D. Seger, W. G. Dever, and Seymour Gitin. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College and Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. 2014


Books and Monographs: continued - 2)

*Lahav II: Households and the Use of Domestic Space at Iron II Tell Halif: An Archaeology of Destruction, by James W. Hardin. Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2010. Xviii + 458 pp.; 36 figs; 20 plates.

*Gezer VII: The Middle Bronze and Later Fortifications in Fields II, IV and VIII by Joe D. Seger, Eds. Joe D. Seger and James W. Hardin. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College and Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns 2013 Xx +411 pp.; 75 plates, +CD with plans and field photos

*Lahav I: Pottery and Politics: The Halif Terrace Site 101 and Egypt in the Fourth Millennium B.C.E. by J. P. Dessel. Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009. Xxvii +303 pp.; 16 plates.

*An ASOR Mosaic: A Centennial History of the American Schools of Oriental Research, ed. Joe D. Seger. American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, MA, 2001. Xxii + 376 pp.

ASOR: Commemorating 100 Years of Service, Centennial Program Booklet, April 14-16, 2000, Washington, D.C. American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, MA 2000, 24 pp.

*Retrieving the Past, Essays on Archaeological Research and Methodology in Honor of Gus W. Van Beek, ed. Joe D. Seger. Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State, MS and Eisenbrauns Inc., Winona Lake, IN, 1996. Xxxi + 310 pp.

*Gezer V, The Field I Caves 1969-1971. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem, Vol. V. Ben Zvi Ltd., Jerusalem, 1989. Xv + 241 pp.; 82 plates; 5 plans.

*Gezer IV, the 1969-71 Seasons in Field VI, “The Acropolis,” with W. G.Dever et al. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem, Vol. IV, Keter Press, Jerusalem, 1986. 2 vols: Text vii + 216 pp.; 136 plates; 118 plans.

Handbook for Field Operations, Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College Biblical and Archaeological School, 1972., 60 pp. Revised and updated as Field Operations Guidebook, Lahav Research Project: Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University, 1980, 87 pp.


Climbing the Steps of Time, with Jonathan Rosenbaum, Festival of Biblical Art and Archaeology, Catalogue, Jewish Community Center of Omaha, 1978, 72 pp.

*Gezer II, Preliminary Report of the 1967-70 Excavations in Fields I and II, with W. G. Dever, et al. Annual of the Hebrew Union College Biblical and Archaeological School, Jerusalem, Vol. II, Keter Press, Jerusalem, 1974, vii + 113 pp. 37 plates, 13 plans.

Western Humanities, A Lecture Outline, with Russell W. Palmer et al. University of Nebraska at Omaha, August 1978, 45 pp.

Tomb Offerings from Gezer, Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem Catalogue, No. 94, summer 1972, 44 pp. (Hebrew and English)

Major Reports of Limited Circulation:

Handbook of Academic Procedures, Editor, the Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1968, pp. 1-25 + 15 pp. Appendices.

Tell Gezer Excavations, Preliminary Field Reports (on file Hebrew Union College Gezer Archives, Jerusalem: Israel Department of Antiquities; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC).

“Excavations of July 1966, Field I.8, 10,” pp. 1-12 + 16 pp. Indices and Plans (December 1966).

“Excavations of July-August 1967, Field I, 8-10,” pp. 1-13 +77 pp. Indices and Plans (November 1967).

“Excavations of July-August 1967, Field IV,” pp. 1-3 (November 1967).

“Excavations of July-August 1968, Field I, 8-10,” pp. 1-6 + 7 pp. Indices and Plans (November 1968).

“Excavations of June-August 1968, Field IV,” pp. 1-23 + 38 pp. Indices and Plans (November 1968).

Lahav Research Project, Preliminary Field Reports, Editor (on file, Israel Department of Antiquities; American Schools of Oriental Research, CAP Offices; W.F. Albright Institute, Jerusalem; Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem; Joe Alon Center, Kibbutz Lahav, Israel; Cobb Institute of Archaeology).

“Lahav Research Project, 1976 Season,” (spring 1977), 380 pp.Joe D. Seger - Vitae 8

“Lahav Research Project, 1977 Season,” (spring 1979), 540 pp.


“Lahav Research Project, 1980 Season,” (spring 1981), 2 parts; 690 pp.



“Lahav Research Project, 1986 Season, Field I Excavations” (winter 1990), 171 pp.

“Lahav Research Project, 1987 Season, Field I Excavations” (winter 1989), 306 pp.

“Lahav Research Project, 1986, 1987, 1989 Seasons Fields III and IV Excavations” (winter 1990), 245 pp.

Articles: (in chronological order as published)

“Rene Menard, Missionary,” Badger History, Vol. 3:7 (March 1950) pp. 9-10.

*Two Pottery Groups of Middle Bronze Shechem,” in Shechem, Biography of a Biblical City, by G. E. Wright, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965, pp. 235-37 +

*“The Pottery of Palestine at the Close of the Middle Bronze Age,” Dissertation Summary, Harvard Theological Review, 58:4 (October 1965), pp. 461-62.

*“Why We Dig at Gezer,” The Hartford Quarterly, 7:4 (1967) 1, pp. 16-39.

*“News and Notes, Tell Gezer (Spring 1970)” Israel Exploration Journal 20:1-2 (1970), p. 17.

*“Fall Excavations at Tell Gezer, 1979,” (Hebrew) Hadashot Arcaeologiot, January 1970.

*“Tell Gezer, 1970 Spring Excavations,” (Hebrew) Hadashot Archaeologiot, November 1970.

“Troglodytes Revisited,” Jerusalem Post Magazine, October 15, 1971, pp. 19-20.

*“Further Excavations at Gezer, 1967-71,” with W. G. Dever et al. Biblical Archaeologist 34:4 (December 1971), pp. 94-132.

*“Shechem Field XIII, 1969,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 205 (February 1971), pp. 20-35.

*“News and Notes, Tel Gezer (Spring 1972),” Israel Exploration Journal 22 (1972), pp. 160-61.

*“Newly Discovered Burial Caves at Gezer,” (Hebrew) Qadmoniot 5:1 (1972), pp 15-18.


Articles: (continued-2)

*“News and Notes, Tel Gezer (Summer 1972)” Israel Exploration journal 22 (1972), pp. 240-42.

*The Ninth Season of Excavations at Tell Gezer, 1972" (Hebrew), Hadashot Archaeologiot, January 1973, pp. 60-62.

*“Chronique Archaeologique, Tel Gezer (Summer 1972) (Hebrew), Revue Biblique 80 (1972), pp. 408-12.

*“News and Notes, Tel Gezer (Summer 1973),” Israel Exploration Journal 23 (1973), pp. 247-51.

*“The Tenth Season of Excavations at Tell Gezer, 1973,” (Hebrew) Hadashot Archaeologiot, January 1974.

*“The MB II C Date of the East Gate at Shechem,” Levant VI (1974), pp. 117-30.

“Archaeology and the Bible: At the Crossroads.” A Walk through the Past. HUC, Skirball Museum Catalog, 1974, pp. 17-19.

*“The MB II Fortifications at Shechem and Gezer - A Hyksos Retrospective,” Eretz Israel, Vol. 12, Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 1975, pp. 34-45.

*“Chronique Archaeologique, Tel Gezer (Summer 1973),” Revue Biblique 82 (1975), pp. 87-92.

*“Reflections on the Gold Hoard from Gezer,” Bulletin of the American Schools of

Oriental Research 22 (February 1976), pp. 34-45.

*“News and Notes, Tell Halif (Lahav),” Israel Exploration Journal 27 (1977).

*“The 1976 Season at Tell Halif,” (Hebrew) Hadashot Archaeologiot, January 1977. “The Search for Maccabean Gezer,” Biblical Archaeology 39:4 (1977), pp. 14-44.

*“Tell Halif: The 1977 Season,” ASOR Newsletter No. 3 (November 1977), 4 pp.

*“The First Two Seasons at Tell Halif,” with Oded Borowski, Biblical Archaeology 40:4 (December 1977), pp. 156-66.

*“The 1977 Season at Tell Halif,” (Hebrew), Hadashot Archaeologiot, January 1978.

*“The Lahav Research Project, 1976,” Revue Biblique (1977:3)

*The Pottery Recording System,” Chapter V. In A Manual of Field Excavation, ed. W. G. Dever, H. D. Lance, Hebrew Union College, 1978, pp. 107-74.

*“The Lahav Research Project in Israel,” Archaeology, Vol. 32:3 (May-June 1979), pp. 50-52.

*“The Search for Maccabean Gezer,” Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress of Jewish Studies, I, Jerusalem, 1977, pp. 389-95.



*“News and Notes, Tell Halif, 1980,” Israel Exploration Journal 30 (1980), pp. 223-26.

*“The Gezer Jar Signs: New Evidence of the Earliest Alphabet.” In The Word of the Lord Shall Go Forth, ed. C. Meyers and M. O’Connor, ASOR, 1983, pp. 477-95.

*“Lahav Research Project: Investigations at Tell Halif, 1976-1980,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 252 (1983), pp. 1-23.

*“The Location of Biblical Ziklag,” Biblical Archaeologist 47:1 (March 1984), pp. 47-53.

*“Stratigraphy, Chronology and Terminology: A Response.” In Biblical Archaeology Today, Proceedings of the First World Congress on Biblical Archaeology, Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, Israel, 1985, pp. 157-59.

*“Three Unpublished Ostraca from Gezer,” with Jonathan Rosenbaum, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 264 (November 1986), pp. 51-60.

*“Tell Halif, 1986,” Hadashot Arkhelogiyot Numbers 88-89. Jerusalem, 1986, pp. 40-

41 (Hebrew): Same in Excavations and Surveys in Israel 1986, Vol. 5, pp. 45-46 (English).

*“News and Notes, Tell Halif, 1986,” Israel Exploration Journal, 37 (1987), pp. 192-95, Pls. 23 and 24.

*“Tell Gezer, Phase II Excavations 1972-197.” In Archaeology and Biblical

Interpretation, ed. L. C. Perdue, L. E. Toombs, G. L. Johnson, John Knox Press, 1987, pp. 113-28.

“Why is a Bilbil Called a Bilbil?” with Victor Goodside. Biblical Archaeology Review XIV:1 (January/February 1988), p. 60.

*“The Location of Biblical Ziklag According to the Tell Halif Excavations (in Hebrew).” In Man and Environment in the Southern Shefelah, ed. E. Stern and D. Uman. Massada Press, 1988, pp. 130-38.

*“Some Provisional Correlations in EB III Stratigraphy in Southern Palestine.” PP. 117-35 in L’urbanisation de la Palestine a l’ age du bronze ancien (Actes due Colloque d’Emmaus 20-24 Octobre 1986). Pierre de Miroschedji, ed, BAR International Series (527 [i], Oxford, England.

“In Memoriam, Joseph A. Callaway, 1920-1988,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research No. 275, 1989, pp. 1-3.

*“Lahav Research Project, Tell Halif Excavations, 1987,” Hadashot Arkeologiyot 92 (1988), p. 57 (Hebrew).



*“Tell Halif - 1987,” Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 1988-89. Pp. 69-71. “The Bronze Age Settlements at Tell Halif: Phase II Excavations, 1983-1987,” with Paul F. Jacobs et al. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research Supplement 26, 1990, pp. 1-32.

*“Lahav Research Project Excavations at Tell Halif, 1989,” Hadashot Arkeologiyot 94 (1990), p. 57 (Hebrew).

*“Limping About the Altar.” Pp. 120-27 in Eretz Israel, Vol. 23 (Biran Volume). Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 1992..

*Tell Halif-1989,” Excavations and Surveys in Israel 1989/1990, Vol. 9, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 67-68.

*“Gath,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, Vol. II, Doubleday, 1992, pp. 908-909.

*“Halif, Tell,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, Vol. III, Doubleday, 1992, pp. 28-30.

*“Halif, Tell,” The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, ed. Ephraim Stern, Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 1993, pp. 553-559.

*“Gezer, A Twice-Told Tell, 1902-1909 and 1964-1974.” Pp. 559-74 in Biblical Archaeology Today 1990, Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 1993.

“Lahav Digmaster,” Biblical Archaeologist 58:2 (1995), p. 116.

*“Context as Text,” pp. vii-viii and “The Point One Principle: A Case Study from the Halif Terrace,” pp. 231-44 in Retrieving the Past: Essays on Archaeological Research and Methodology in Honor of Gus W. Van Beek, ed. Joe D. Seger, Cobb Institute of Archaeology Mississippi State, MS and Eisenbrauns Inc., Winona Lake, IN, 1996.

*“Archaeology’s Midlife Crisis,” pp. 55-70 in Archaeology’s Publication Problem, Biblical Archaeology Society, Washington, DC, 1996.

*“Azekah" Vol. 1, p. 243 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. E. Meyers, New York, 1997

*“Lahav (Tel Halif)” Vol. 3, pp 325-26 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. E. Meyers, New York, 1997

*“Shechem” Vol. 5, pp. 19-23 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. E. Meyers, New York, 1997

*“Water Tunnels” Vo. 5, pp. 331-32 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. E. Meyers, New York, 1997

*“Resistivity” Vol. 4, pp. 423-24 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. E. Meyers, New York, 1997



*“A Note of the Early Antiquity of the Song of Hannah,” pp.47-52 in Biblical and Humane: A Festschrift for John F. Priest, ed. Linda Bennett Elder, David L. Barr, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, Scholar’s Press, Atlanta, GA 1996.

*"Stone Scale Weights of the Judean Standard from Tell Halif" pp. 357-374 in Hesed vi-Emet, festschrift in Honor of Ernest Frerichs" eds. Jodi Magness and

Seymour Gitin. Scholars Press, Atlanta, 1998 . "ASOR Policy of Preservation and Protection of Archaeological Resources" Bulletin

of the American Schools of Oriental Research No. 309 (Feb. 1998), pp. 1-2

"RX for ASOR: Shanks May Be Right!" American Schools of Oriental Research 2000 Program to Probe ASOR's Future" and "EBR Travel Support

Discontinued for 1999" American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter 48:2 (Summer, 1998), p.1

"P.E. MacAllister Honored at 80th Birthday" American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter 48:3 (Fall, 1998), p. 7.

"Trustees Approve Mission Statement" ASOR Newsletter 49:2 (Summer 1999), pp.1, 7

"Letter from the President" ASOR Newsletter 49:3, (Fall 1999), p. 3

"Diggers are destroyers! It's a fact!" book cover for Archaeology's Publication Problem, vol 2; ed. Herschel Schanks, Washington DC, BAS, 1999

“Celebrating a Century” ASOR Newsletter 50:2 (Summer 2000), p. 1-3

“Forward” in Philistines: Giving Goliath His Due by Neal Bierling, Shangri-La Publications: Warren Center PA 2002, p. 1.

*"Footsteps in the Dust" Pp. 429-34 in 100 Years of American Archaeology in the Middle East: Centennial Proceedings of the American Schools of Oriental Research 2000. Eds. D. R. Clark and V. H. Matthews. ASOR, Boston, MA 2003.

*"Footsteps in the Dust" Pp. 429-34 in 100 Years of American Archaeology in the

Middle East: Centennial Proceedings of the American Schools of Oriental Research 2000. Eds. Douglas R. Clark and Victor H. Matthews. ASOR, Boston, MA 2003.

*“Opening Remarks:Greetings” P. xv in Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Proceeding of the Centennial Symposium of the W. F. Albright Institute of

Archaeological Research and the American Schools of Oriental Research. Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, IN, 2003



“Its Time to Raise the BAR (Former ASOR President Blasts BAR Editor) “ ASOR-list communication (www.asor.org) printed in Biblical Archaeology Review 29:4 (July/August 2003):8-10.

*”Use of Differential Scanning Calorimetry for Estimating the firing Temperature of Archaeological Pottery” with A. Giordana, M. McCarthy, E. Peacock, K. Guilbeau, W. G. Ramey and P. Jacobs. Materials Research Society Proceedings Volume 852, 008.5, Fall 2004.

*“Gezer Rectified:The Dating of the South Gate Complex” (with James W. Hardin) Pp. 51-60 in Confronting the Past: Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of William G. Dever. Eds. S. Gitin, J. E. Wright and J. P. Dessel. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, IN, 2006.

*“Glimpses of the Iron I period at Tell Halif” (with Paul F. Jacobs) Pp 146-55 in “Up to the Gates of Ekron:” Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of Seymour Gitin.. Eds S. White-Crawford, A. Ben-Tor, J. P. Dessel, W. G. Dever, A. Mazar, and J. Aviram. Jerusalem: The W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and the Israel Exploration Society, 2007.

*”Queen or Crone? Gendered Archaeology in an LB Tomb at Gezer” Pp. 85-94 in Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the Other. Studies in honor of Eric M. Meyers. AASOR 60/61. Eds. D. R. Edwards and C. T. McCollough, Boston: ASOR, 2007

*”Traces of the Persian Period Settlement at Tel Halif” (with Dan P. Cole) Pp. 11*-18* in Eretz-Israel Vol. 29 (Stern Volume). Israel Exploration society, Jerusalem, 2009

“Gezer” Entry submitted for Harper’s Dictionary of the Bible mss 6 pgs. To Dr. Eric Meyers Editor, April 30, 2009.

*”Introduction” (with W. G. Dever) 3 mss pgs in Gezer VI: The Objects from Phases I and II (1964–1974) by Garth GilmourEds. Joe D. Seger, W. G. Dever, and Seymour Gitin. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College and Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (In press June 2010)



*”Chapter I: The Nature and Use of This Volume”(with W. G. Dever and Garth Gilmour) 3 mss pgs in Gezer VI: The Objects from Phases I and II (1964–1974) by Garth Gilmour. Eds. Joe D. Seger, W. G. Dever, and Seymour Gitin. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College and Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (In press June 2010)

*”Chapter II: A Brief Summary of the Stratigraphy and Cultural History of Gezer” (with W. G. Dever) 24 mss pgs in Gezer VI: The Objects from Phases I and II (1964–1974) by Garth Gilmour. Eds. Joe D. Seger, W. G. Dever, and Seymour Gitin. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College and Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (In press June 2010)

*”The Typology of LB I Cooking Pots in Canaan” Pp. 104*-118* in Eretz-Israel Vol. 30 (Ben-Tor Volume), Israel Exploration Society 2011

“In Memoriam: Gus W. Van Beek 1922-2012” Albright News (17:October 2012): 16

*“Mysteries of the Middle Bronze Age at Gezer: Stories Yet to be Told’ pp. 122-133 In Bethsaida in Archaeology, History and Ancient Culture: A Festschrift in Honor of John T. Greene, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014.

“Bulla with Cylinder Seal Impression’ Chapter 4 Objects B in Lahav V: The Iron, Persian and Hellenistic Occupations Within the Walls at Tell Halif: Excavations in Field II, 1977-1980 by Dan P. Cole. Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (10 Mss pgs., In Press September 2013)

“Bronze Thymiaterion” Chapter 4 Objects C in Lahav V: The Iron, Persian and Hellenistic Occupations Within the Walls at Tell Halif: Excavations in Field II, 1977-1980 by Dan P. Cole. Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (4 Mss pgs., In Press September 2013)

“Bronze Bell” Chapter 4 Objects D in Lahav V: The Iron, Persian and Hellenistic Occupations Within the Walls at Tell Halif: Excavations in Field II, 1977-1980 by Dan P. Cole. Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (5 Mss pgs., In Press September 2013)

“Ptolemaic Coin” Chapter 4 Objects E in Lahav V: The Iron, Persian and Hellenistic Occupations Within the Walls at Tell Halif: Excavations in Field II, 1977-1980 by Dan

P. Cole. Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (3 Mss pgs., In Press September 2013)



“Miscellaneous Finds” Chapter 4 Objects F in Lahav V: The Iron, Persian and Hellenistic Occupations Within the Walls at Tell Halif: Excavations in Field II, 1977-1980 by Dan P. Cole. Joe D. Seger Series Editor. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (6 Mss pgs., In Press September 2013)

Book Reviews: (in chronological order as published)

*Ground Plan of the Bible, by Otto Weber, Tr. Harold Knight. The Westminister Press, Philadelphia, 1960, 221 pp. Theology and Life, 4:1 (1961), pp. 73-74.

*Let My People Go: a Journey through Exodus, by Jack Finegan. Harper and Row, New York, 1963, 148 pp. Theology and Life 6:4 (1963), pp.348-50.

*Israelite Religion by Helmer Ringgren, Tr. David E. Green. Portress Press, Philadelphia, 1966, 391 pp. The Hartford Quarterly 7:1 (1966), pp. 68-69.

*The History and Religion of Israel by G. W. Anderson, Oxford University Press, London, 1966, 210 pp. The Hartford Quarterly 7:3 (1967), pp. 123-24.

*The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, by Edwin R. Thiele, William b. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Revised Edition, 1965, 232 pp. The Hartford Quarterly 7:3 (1967), pp. 124-25.

*Come Sweet Death, A Quintet from Genesis, by B. D. Napier, United Church Press, Philadelphia, 1967, 96 pp. The Hartford Quarterly 8:2 (1968), p. 83.

*Job, Our Contemporary, by H. Harold Kent, William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids,

1968, 65 pp. The Hartford Quarterly 8:3 (1968), pp. 67-68.

*The Hebrew Goddess, by Raphael Patal, Ktav Publishing House, New York, 1968, 349 pp., 34 plates. American Anthropologist (December 1968), pp. 120-21.

*The Evolution of Urban Society, by Robert McAdams, Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, 1966, Journal of the American Oriental Society 88:3 (1968), pp. 548-49.

*Near Eastern Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, ed., James Sanders, Doubleday and Co., Garden City, 1970, Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Fall 1971, pp. 441-44.


Book Reviews (continued-2)

*The Classical Christian Townsite of Arminna West, by Kent R. Weeks (Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt No. 3), 73 pp. + 13 plates, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1967. Journal of the American Oriental Society 93:1 (1973), pp. 74-75.

*Canaanite Gods in Metal: An Archaeological Study of Ancient Syro-Palestinian Figurines, by Ora Negbi. Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, 5, Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, 1976. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 249 (1983), pp. 95-96.

*Syrien und Palestina (Kanaan) in der Letze Phase der Mittlebronze II B-Zeit (1650-1570 V. Chr.) by A. Kempinski, Harrassowitz, 1983, in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 47:528-30.

*Tell Al-Hamidiyya I; Vorbericht 1984. By Sayyare Eichler et al., Vandenhoech and Ruprecht, 1985, in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 50 (1988), pp. 113-14.

*Hazor III-IV: An Account of the Third and Fourth Seasons of Excavation, 1957-1958, ed. Amnon Ben-Tor and Shulamit Giva: Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 1989, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research Nos. 290-291 (May-August 1993), pp. 134-35.

*The Architecture of Ancient Israel, ed. Aharon Kempinski and Ronny Reich. Israel Exploration Society, 1993, Jerusalem 1992, Biblical Archaeology Review 20:1, 1994, pp. 9-10.

*Einfuhrung in die biblishe Archaeologie, by Volkmar Fritz, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftlich Buchgesellschaft, 1985, pp. xii plus 231, 45 figures, and 16 plates. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 277, pp. 132-33.

*Archaeology of the Land of the Bible 10,000-586 B.C., by Amahai Mazar. The Anchor Bible Reference Library, Doubleday: New York, 1990, pp. xxx+572, for Biblical Archaeologist, June 1991, pp. 114-15.

Excavations at Tel Michal, Israel, Eds. Z. Herzog, G. Rapp Jr., and O. Negbi. Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University #8, University of Minnesota Press and the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University,

1989, pp. 462; and Excavations at Capernaum, Vol. 1, 1978-1982, by Vassilios Tzaferis, Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana, 1989, pp. 234+14 plans, in Biblical Archaeology Review, Vol. XVII: 3, May/June 1991, pp. 4-8.



*Tell el-Hesi: The Site and the Expedition. Eds. Bruce Dahlberg and Kevin O’Connell. Eisenbrauns 1989, in Biblical Archaeology Review 19:2, 1993, p. 8.

*A Century of Biblical Archaeology, by P.R.S. Mooney, John Knox Press, 1991, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 115(4), 1995, pp. 23-25.

*Eretz Israel, Vol. 24, The Avraham Malamat Volume, Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 1993, in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 298 (1995), pp. 90-92 (with Oded Borowski).

*Timnah: A Biblical City in the Sorek Valley by George L. Kelm and Amihai Mazar. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1995. In Journal of the American

Oriental Society No. 118:3 (March 1998), p. 440

*Economic Keystones: The Weight System of the Kingdom of Judah, by Roz Kletter. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998: In Bulletin of the American

Schools of Oriental Research. No. 317, (February 2000) p. 89-92..

*Timnah (Tel Batash) II: The Finds from the First Millennium BCE by Amihai Mazar and Nava Panits-Cohen. 2 vols. Qedem 42, Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 2001. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 310 (May 2003), pp. 91-93

*Bronze and Iron Age Tombs at Tell Beit Mirsim by Sara Ben-Arieh. IAA Reports 23 Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2004. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 342 (May 2006), pp. 114-16

*The Tell Bet Yerah Excavations, 1994-1995 by Nimrod Getzov. IAA Reports, 28. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2006. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 350 (May 2008), pp. 94-96.

*Bronze and Iron Age Tombs at Tell Beit Mirsim by Sara Ben-Arieh. IAA Reports 23

Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2004. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 342 (May 2006), pp. 114-16

*The Tell Bet Yerah Excavations, 1994-1995 by Nimrod Getzov. IAA Reports, 28. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2006. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 350 (May 2008), pp. 94-96.



* Excavations at Tel Beth Shean 1989-1995, Volume I: From the Late Bronze Age IIB to the Medieval Period by Amihai Mazar. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and the Institute of Archaeology of Jerusalem, 2006 Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 350 (May 2008), pp. 99-101

*Ashkelon I: Introduction and Overview (1985-2006). Ed. By Lawrence E. Stager, J. David Schloen, and Daniel M. Master. Final Reports of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, Volume 1. Winona Lake, IN; Eisenbrauns, 2008. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 357 (2010), pp. 91-92

*Excavations at Tel Beth Shean 1989-1996, Volume II: The Middle and Late Bronze Strata in Area R. Ed, by Amihai Mazar and Robert Mullins. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and the Institute of Archaeology of Jerusalem, 2007 Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 359 (2010), pp. 83-85

*Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989-1996, Volume III: The 13th-11th Century BCE Strata in Areas N and S. Ed by Nava Panitz-Cohen and Amihai Mazar. The Beth-Shean Valley Archaeological Project, Publication No. 3. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009. XXIII + 790 pp., 197 figures, 74 plates, 56 tables, 461 black-and-white photos, 7 color photos, 92 tables. BASOR 362 (2011), PP89-90..

*Nelson Glueck: Biblical Archaeologist and President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Jonathan Brown and Laurence Kutler. Hebrew Union college Press, 2005 pp 272; 17 illustrations, $30:00 Cloth. Near Eastern Archaeology 74:1 (2011): 62-63

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES/MEETINGS (1999-2013)

“Excavations at Tell Gezer in Retrospect and Prospect” Meeting Section Organized for the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Philadelphia, PA National Meeting November 17, 2005 (volunteered)

”Phase II Excavations at Gezer in Retrospect” Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Philadelphia, PA National Meeting November 17, 2005 (volunteered)

”A Fresh Stirring of Pots” Annual Southeastern Regional Meeting American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, American Schools of Oriental Research, Winston-Salem, NC March 12, 2005 (invited).


Presentations at Professional Conferences/Meetings (1999-2013) (continued -2)

“The Development of ASOR’s Publication Policy: Historical Background” Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Antonio, TX, November 18, 2004 (invited).

“A Head’s Up on Tell Halif” Annual Meeting of the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, ASOR Regional Society, Dallas TX, March 15, 2003 (invited)

“Queen or Crone? Gender Status in an LB Tomb at Gezer” Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research,Toronto, Canada, November 23, 2002 (volunteered)

“ From Abraham to Jesus: Thirty Years of Biblical Archaeology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha” Keynote Address at Biblical Archaeology Conference, University of Nebraska Omaha, October 24, 2002 (invited.)

“Sunken Ships ” Joint ASOR/AIA symposium in honor of the ASOR Centennial. Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, CA January 6, 2001 (Presided - invited)

“Empire and Palace Economies, Late Bronze Age” AIAR/ASOR Centennial Symposium, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel May 29, 2000 (Opening remarks for the symposium, also presided and served as respondent for opening session - invited.)

“Footsteps in the Dust: A Century of ASOR Discoveries in the Ancient Near East” ASOR Centennial program in cooperation with the Smithsonian Associates, Jefferson Auditorium, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, April 15,2000 (Program organizer.)

“Near Eastern Archaeology in the 21st Century - New Perspectives and New Horizons” ASOR Centennial Program “Footsteps in the Dust” in cooperation with the Smithsonian Associates, Jefferson Auditorium, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington DC, April 15, 2000 (invited)

“We Must Pay Attention to our Ghosts” Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research Southeastern Regional Society, Atlanta, GA, March 12, 2000 (invited)

“The Typology of Pottery through the MB-LB Transition at Tell Halif” Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Cambridge, MA November 18. 1999 (invited)


Presentations at Professional Conferences/Meetings (1999-2013) (continued -3)

“Is There Anything New in Middle Eastern Archaeology? (The Big Picture in Middle East Archaeology). By Proxy for the Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research Southeastern Regional Society, Greensboro, NC, March 13-15, 2009

“The Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant: A View from Tell Halif” Invited Plenary Lecture: American Schools of Oriental Research Pacific Northwest Regional Meeting: Seattle University, Seattle, WA, May 4, 2013.

GRANTS FOR RESEARCH, EXHIBITS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS:

Source/Sponsor/Amount Title of Project Team Members Dates

NEH, NCH, NAC

Jewish Federation of Omaha “Climbing the Steps of Time”14 1978-79$147,234

NCH “Omaha in the Making of 3 1981Committee for the Study Nebraska Labor History”of Nebraska Labor History$27,924

NCH “Alphabet Soup” 3 1982Omaha Children’s Musuem$10,864

MCH “Digging for Biblical Roots” 21 1983Cobb Institute of ArchaeologyMississippi State University$18,236

MCH/MSUCobb Institute of Archaeology “Exploring the City of David” 25 1991Mississippi State University$34,807

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Grants for Research, Exhibits and Public Programs (continued -2)

Source/Sponsor/Amount Title of Project Team Members DatesMSUCriss Fund “A Virtual Museum of Christian 3 1997$4796 Origins” (with Paul F. Jacobs and

Chris Holland)Levy/White Publication Fund "Synchronic and Diachronic Studies 2 1997-2001$90,000 of the Middle Bronze Age and Later

Fortification Systems in Field IV at Tell Gezer" (with James W. Hardin)

MSUHumanities and Arts Research “A Virtual Museum” 2 1998$2000 (with Paul F. Jacobs)

MSUCriss Fund “Biblical Origins in CD Editions 2 2001

$2000 (with James W. Hardin)

*Abbreviation keyNEH = National Endowment for the HumanitiesNCH = Nebraska Committee for the HumanitiesNAC = Nebraska Arts CouncilMCH = Mississippi Committee for the HumanitiesMSU = Mississippi State University

MAJOR PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS ON MIDDLE EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY:

1992 “Discovering the City of David,” Lois Dowdle Cobb Museum of Archaeology, Mississippi State University, January-May 1992 (Mississippi State, Mississippi) with Charles H. Pyne.

1987 “Digging for Biblical Roots,” The University of Alabama State Museum of Natural History, March-April 1987 (Tuscaloosa, Alabama). Exhibit and Program Consultant.

1986 “Digging for Biblical Roots, “Miami University Art Museum, January-February, 1986 (Oxford, Ohio). Exhibit and Program Consultant.

1985 “Digging for Biblical Roots,” Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library, Emory University, March 1985 (Atlanta, Georgia). Exhibit and Program Consultant.


Major Public Exhibitions on Middle Eastern Archaeology (continued- 2)

1984 “Digging for Biblical Roots,” Lois Dowdle Cobb Museum of Archaeology, Mississippi State University, February-April 1984 (Mississippi State, Mississippi).

1983 “Sign, Symbol, Script.” Museum of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, August-December 1983 (Madison, WI). Exhibit Planning Consultant.

1983 “Our Living Past: A Festival of Biblical Art and Archaeology.” Jewish Community Center of Southern New Jersey, April 1983 (Cherry Hill, NJ), Archaeological Consultant.

1982 “Alphabet Soup,” Omaha Children’s Museum, September 1982-June 1984 (Omaha, Nebraska). Director, Coordinator and Principal Research Consultant - Author of enabling grant received from the Nebraska Committee for the Humanities.

1978 “A Festival of Biblical Art and Archaeology,” Jewish Community Center of Omaha, October-December 1978 (Omaha, Nebraska): April 1979 (Berrien Springs, Michigan). Director, Coordinator, and Principal Research Consultant.Author of enabling grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Nebraska Committee for the Humanities, and the Nebraska Arts Council.

1976 “UNO Digs Lahav,” University of Nebraska at Omaha, October 1976, research, design, and installation.

1975 “Qumran, The Dead Sea Scrolls,” Hebrew Union College, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, September 1975-January 1976. Research, design, and installation.

1975 “Gezer Finds in Focus,” Hebrew Union College, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, January-June 1975. Research, design, and installation.

1974 “Recent Hebrew Union College Excavations, “The Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem, July 1974. Research, design, and installation.

1973 “Phase II Excavations at Tell Gezer,” The Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, February 1973. Research, design, and installation.

1972 “Tomb Offerings from Gezer,” in cooperation with the staff of the Israel Museum, the Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem, Spring-Summer 1972. Research and author of exhibit catalogue, Tomb Offerings from Gezer.

1968 “New Archaeological Finds from the Near East,” the Hartford Seminary Foundation Museum of Anthropology, Spring 1968.

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